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The McGill Rocket Team is an EUS Design Team that aims to develop a Canadian aerospace community by providing students with practical experience in the development of rocket technologies and by promoting the Canadian aerospace industry. In practice, this means that members of the team build sounding rockets for various student rocketry competitions. The main competition the Rocket Team participated had been the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC), now called Spaceport America Cup (SAC), but as of 2022, the McGill Rocket Team is planning to compete in the Launch Canada competition. The team, founded in 2014, has grown from 20 members to roughly 150 members, and is among the biggest design teams at McGill University.
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Working with the team allows our members to apply the scientific and engineering knowledge taught at McGill University in real-world applications and helps them build the soft skills essential to their future professional lives. Notable events we participate in includes McGill recruitment events, Montreal Space Symposium, and events to promote women in STEM. Being a part of the McGill Rocket Team is unforgettable, from the thrills of a rocket launch to the strong friendships forged through shared experiences.
  
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== Subteams ==
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McGill Rocket Team is split into various subteams; Aerostructures, Recovery, Avionics, Propulsion, Payload, and Logistics. Each sub-team operates as a semi-autonomous entity, with project requirements set by team leadership at the beginning of the design cycle. Students who join the team may engage in many different fields which include composites and structures, fluids, and electronics. Each subteam varies greatly in the projects they do so our rocket can fly. As such, you can definitely find a project that suits your interest on the team.
  
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=== Aerostructures ===
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Aerostructures is responsible for designing and building the external airframe and internal structure of the rockets. The team performs aerodynamic analysis on the airframe, and load analysis on the internal structures to ensure weight is minimized while still meeting each subsystem's requirements. The team has developed its composites manufacturing techniques, making the whole airframe out of carbon fiber and fiberglass manufactured in house.
  
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=== Recovery ===
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The Recovery Subteam, as the name suggests, focuses on the recovery of the rocket. Its work focuses on the second half of the flight, from apogee to landing (and then hopefully when the team finds and brings back the rocket). Recovery takes care of the systems linked to the parachutes and their deployment as well as other systems that aim to help retrieve the rocket after touchdown. This includes the ejection systems, the parachute themselves and the recovery harness.
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=== Avionics ===
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Avionics designs a wide array of electrical systems on the rocket and the ground, including but not limited to: rocket telemetry, recovery sequence circuits, and ground communications. Avionics also collaborates heavily with Aerostructures for the design of the avionics bay for the main electronics. The Avionics team converts the rocket from a ballistic composite dart to a safe, recoverable, and re-usable payload delivery system (depending on how well we do our job). The team designs and builds its own integrated circuits, and integrates off-the-shelf components with the circuits.
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===Payload===
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Payload is tasked with designing and building a payload that will carry out an experiment during rocket flight, at apogee, or during descent. In general, experiments leverage either the intense accelerations induced by the rocket motor, the apogee the rocket reaches, or the time it spends in the lower atmosphere after parachute deployment. Experiments only have hard weight constraints, with more flexible dimension constraints, and the purpose of the experiment is up to each year's payload team to decide: for example, the 2017-2018 payloads were an atmospheric bacterial sampling experiment and an experiment investigating the effects of high acceleration on small-scale brain models.
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===Propulsion===
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Propulsion is primarily responsible for the design, manufacturing and verification of the rocket engine. Secondary responsibilities mostly encompass the testing of the propulsion components at the rocket engine test site located in MacDonald Campus, a new facility that was designed and built by the subteam. Propulsion also produces all the engine related infrastructure such as the engine igniters, the launch rails and the rocket integration components.
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===Management===
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Management is responsible for the operation and logistics of team operation. This includes organizing events, managing the team's social media, contacting sponsors, and planning outreach efforts.
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==Leads==
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<tabs>
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<tab name="2023-2024 Leads and Team Structure:">
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{| class="wikitable sortable alternating"
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|-
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! Position:
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! Name:
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|-
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|Team Captains
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|Alexandre Fahmy & Amanda Kronish
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|-
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|Technical Directors
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|Cao Phan & Kay Romann
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|-
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|Aerostructures Subteam Lead
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|Blake Quellmann
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|-
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|Aerostructures Project Leads
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|Giulia Berteau, Rhys Aron, Hubert Ducas, Muhammad Saif, Thibaut Brague, & Michael Zhou
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|-
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|Recovery Subteam Leads
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|Michael Tablan & Tala Abou Rizk
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|-
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|Recovery Project Leads
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|Melanie Chapman, Benjamin Nysetvold, Fouad Al Laham, Matthew Korp, Yorgo Abou Haidar, Skylar Gu, & Lola Zarka
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|-
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|Payload Subteam Leads
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|Theodore Glavas & Chloe Jacquet
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|-
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|Payload Project Leads
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|Alexandra Schuck, Caroline Woodard, Jay Patel, Ahmed Nami, Shady Guindi, & Pierre Khoury
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|-
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|Avionics Subteam Leads
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|Cao Phan & Adam Corbier
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|-
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|Avionics Project Leads
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|Gizem Oznalcaci, James Kyriacou, Jordan Di Raddo, Julien Audet, Nardo Edward Jean Gilles, Jacob Kogut, & Frédérik Martin
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|-
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|Propulsion Subteam Leads
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|Anthony Côté & Emily Doyle
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|-
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|Propulsion Project Leads
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|Kay Romann, Julien Besson, Noah Quadri, Dakota Rolston-Fredes, Max Jacolot, Caren Khairallah, Evelyne Jewitt-Dyck, Andrew Behling, Esteban Perreault, Siera Riel, Xavier Duschenes, & Lewis Mackay
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|-
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|Outreach Lead
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|
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|-
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|}
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</tab>
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<tab name="2022-2023 Leads and Team Structure:">
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{| class="wikitable sortable alternating"
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|-
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! Position:
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! Name:
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|-
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|Team Captain
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|Mohammad Ghali
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|-
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|Technical Director
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|Alexandre Fahmy
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|-
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|Aerostructures Subteam Leads
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|Anthony Albert & Louis-Charles Trottier
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|-
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|Aerostructures Project Leads
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|Phillipe Crawley, Crystal Lam, Seamus Kaip & Blake Quellmann
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|-
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|Recovery Subteam Leads
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|Amanda Kronish & Michael Tablan
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|-
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|Recovery Project Leads
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|Tala Abou Rizk & Alexandra Oprea
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|-
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|Payload Subteam Leads
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|Theodore Glavas & Ritchie Yu
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|-
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|Payload Project Leads
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|Amelia Duguay, Chloe Jacquet, Pierre Khoury & Mathieu Saltz
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|-
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|Avionics Subteam Leads
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|Jasper Yun & Cao Phan
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|-
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|Avionics Project Leads
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|Marco Lalonde, Dan Hosi, Adam Corbier, Jacoby Roy, Thomas Jarvis, Emily Doyle, John Issa & Fred Martin
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|-
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|Propulsion Subteam Leads
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|Taj Sobral & Alexandre Fahmy
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|-
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|Propulsion Project Leads
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|Anthony Côté, Emily Doyle, Kay Romann & Julien Besson
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|-
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|Outreach Lead
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|Prune Huguet
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|-
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|}
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</tab>
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<tab name="2021-2022 Leads and Team Structure:">
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{| class="wikitable sortable alternating"
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! Position:
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! Name:
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|-
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|Team Captains
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|Amelia Duguay & Joel Jean-Philyppe
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|-
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|Technical Director
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|Jasper Yun
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|-
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|Aerostructures Subteam Leads
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|Alexandre Fahmy & Page Simard
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|-
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|Aerostructures Project Leads
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|Syed Ahmed, Anthony Albert, Aidan Lewandowski, Pierre Labe, & Clement Beausoleil
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|-
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|Recovery Subteam Leads
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|Mavesa Nguyen & Jean-Christophe Belanger
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|-
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|Recovery Project Leads
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|Michael Tablan & Amanda Kronish
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|-
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|Payload Subteam Lead
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|Joel Sabot
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|-
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|Payload Project Leads
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|Madalina Patron & Catherine Prattico
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|-
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|Avionics Subteam Leads
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|Jasper Yun & Zheng Yu Cui
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|-
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|Avionics Project Leads
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|Salim Bencekroun, Dan Hosi, Marco Lalonde, Taha Lazreg
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|-
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|Propulsion Subteam Leads
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|Mohammad Ghali & Cyril Mani
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|-
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|Propulsion Project Leads
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|Catherine Gaudio, John Issa, Niloy Barua, Richard Gilot, Ahmed Raslan, Taj Sobral, & Nicolas Juncos-Linch
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|-
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|}
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</tab>
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==Competitions==
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In 2018, the McGil Rocket Team became the second team to bring home the Genesis Cup at Spaceport America Cup. The team entered the competition with a 10,000 ft COTS rocket named Blanche, which launched nomically and was successfully recovered in the New Mexico desert. Blanche featured 50 student-designed components from a total of 53 major parts!
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Since the team's fifth rocket "Blanche", the team has been hard at work redesigning their 30K COTS rockets and designing their first 10K Hybrid. Changes such as the elimination of the off-the-shelf components that remained, have saved costs and improved integration and reliability across the board. Additionally, testing has become more rigorous for all subsystems, ensuring that the next rocket will be a testament to the team's experience.
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Throughout its years competing at IREC and SAC, in the 10K and 30K categories, the McGill Rocket Team has learned a great deal and is proud of the accomplishments it made along its journey.
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[[File:McGill Rocket Team Rockets.png|thumb|Previous Rockets of the Rocket Team]]
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Competition
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! Project
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! Placement(s)
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|-
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|IREC 2015
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|Project Peregrine I
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|32nd of 44 in 10K COTS solid category. Unknown launch and no recovery.
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|-
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|IREC 2016
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|Project Peregrine II
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|29th of 45 in 10K COTS solid category. Nominal launch with recovery.
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|-
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|SAC 2017
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|Project Aeris
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|30th of 45 in 10K COTS solid category. Nominal launch and no recovery.
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|-
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|SAC 2017
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|Project Stella
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|3rd of 6 in 30k COTS solid category. Horizontal trajectory after Max Q.
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|-
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|SAC 2018
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|Project Blanche
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|1st of 47 in 10K COTS solid category. Nominal launch with recovery.
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|-
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|SAC 2018
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|Project Stella II
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|7th of 15 in 30K COTS solid category. Nominal launch and loss of GPS.
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|-
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|SAC 2019
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|Project Caladan
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|4th of 19 in 30K COTS solid category. Nominal launch and loss of GPS.
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|-
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|SAC 2020
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|Project Aramis
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|Cancelled due to COVID-19.
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|-
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|Virtual SAC 2021
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|Project Aramis
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|3rd of 8 in 30K COTS solid category.  No launch (COVID-19).
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|-
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|SAC 2022
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|Project Athos
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|2nd of 8 in 10K SRAD hybrid category. No launch.
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|-
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|SAC 2023
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|Project Porthos
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|4th of 8 in 10k SRAD hybrid category. No launch due to tornado.
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|-
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|LC 2023
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|Project Porthos
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|2nd in Advanced Category. Nominal launch with recovery.
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|}
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[[Category:Design Teams]]

Latest revision as of 11:47, 14 September 2023

Rocketteam logo.jpg
Mission: To develop a Canadian aerospace community by providing students with practical experience in the development of rocket technologies and by promoting the Canadian aerospace industry.
About
Year founded 2014
Members 200
Competitions Spaceport America Cup (IREC), Launch Canada
Recruitment 100% Fall semester
Links Facebook, Instagram, Website,
Contact us via Facebook or rocketteam@mcgilleus.ca

The McGill Rocket Team is an EUS Design Team that aims to develop a Canadian aerospace community by providing students with practical experience in the development of rocket technologies and by promoting the Canadian aerospace industry. In practice, this means that members of the team build sounding rockets for various student rocketry competitions. The main competition the Rocket Team participated had been the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC), now called Spaceport America Cup (SAC), but as of 2022, the McGill Rocket Team is planning to compete in the Launch Canada competition. The team, founded in 2014, has grown from 20 members to roughly 150 members, and is among the biggest design teams at McGill University.

Working with the team allows our members to apply the scientific and engineering knowledge taught at McGill University in real-world applications and helps them build the soft skills essential to their future professional lives. Notable events we participate in includes McGill recruitment events, Montreal Space Symposium, and events to promote women in STEM. Being a part of the McGill Rocket Team is unforgettable, from the thrills of a rocket launch to the strong friendships forged through shared experiences.

Subteams

McGill Rocket Team is split into various subteams; Aerostructures, Recovery, Avionics, Propulsion, Payload, and Logistics. Each sub-team operates as a semi-autonomous entity, with project requirements set by team leadership at the beginning of the design cycle. Students who join the team may engage in many different fields which include composites and structures, fluids, and electronics. Each subteam varies greatly in the projects they do so our rocket can fly. As such, you can definitely find a project that suits your interest on the team.

Aerostructures

Aerostructures is responsible for designing and building the external airframe and internal structure of the rockets. The team performs aerodynamic analysis on the airframe, and load analysis on the internal structures to ensure weight is minimized while still meeting each subsystem's requirements. The team has developed its composites manufacturing techniques, making the whole airframe out of carbon fiber and fiberglass manufactured in house.

Recovery

The Recovery Subteam, as the name suggests, focuses on the recovery of the rocket. Its work focuses on the second half of the flight, from apogee to landing (and then hopefully when the team finds and brings back the rocket). Recovery takes care of the systems linked to the parachutes and their deployment as well as other systems that aim to help retrieve the rocket after touchdown. This includes the ejection systems, the parachute themselves and the recovery harness.

Avionics

Avionics designs a wide array of electrical systems on the rocket and the ground, including but not limited to: rocket telemetry, recovery sequence circuits, and ground communications. Avionics also collaborates heavily with Aerostructures for the design of the avionics bay for the main electronics. The Avionics team converts the rocket from a ballistic composite dart to a safe, recoverable, and re-usable payload delivery system (depending on how well we do our job). The team designs and builds its own integrated circuits, and integrates off-the-shelf components with the circuits.

Payload

Payload is tasked with designing and building a payload that will carry out an experiment during rocket flight, at apogee, or during descent. In general, experiments leverage either the intense accelerations induced by the rocket motor, the apogee the rocket reaches, or the time it spends in the lower atmosphere after parachute deployment. Experiments only have hard weight constraints, with more flexible dimension constraints, and the purpose of the experiment is up to each year's payload team to decide: for example, the 2017-2018 payloads were an atmospheric bacterial sampling experiment and an experiment investigating the effects of high acceleration on small-scale brain models.

Propulsion

Propulsion is primarily responsible for the design, manufacturing and verification of the rocket engine. Secondary responsibilities mostly encompass the testing of the propulsion components at the rocket engine test site located in MacDonald Campus, a new facility that was designed and built by the subteam. Propulsion also produces all the engine related infrastructure such as the engine igniters, the launch rails and the rocket integration components.

Management

Management is responsible for the operation and logistics of team operation. This includes organizing events, managing the team's social media, contacting sponsors, and planning outreach efforts.

Leads

Position: Name:
Team Captains Alexandre Fahmy & Amanda Kronish
Technical Directors Cao Phan & Kay Romann
Aerostructures Subteam Lead Blake Quellmann
Aerostructures Project Leads Giulia Berteau, Rhys Aron, Hubert Ducas, Muhammad Saif, Thibaut Brague, & Michael Zhou
Recovery Subteam Leads Michael Tablan & Tala Abou Rizk
Recovery Project Leads Melanie Chapman, Benjamin Nysetvold, Fouad Al Laham, Matthew Korp, Yorgo Abou Haidar, Skylar Gu, & Lola Zarka
Payload Subteam Leads Theodore Glavas & Chloe Jacquet
Payload Project Leads Alexandra Schuck, Caroline Woodard, Jay Patel, Ahmed Nami, Shady Guindi, & Pierre Khoury
Avionics Subteam Leads Cao Phan & Adam Corbier
Avionics Project Leads Gizem Oznalcaci, James Kyriacou, Jordan Di Raddo, Julien Audet, Nardo Edward Jean Gilles, Jacob Kogut, & Frédérik Martin
Propulsion Subteam Leads Anthony Côté & Emily Doyle
Propulsion Project Leads Kay Romann, Julien Besson, Noah Quadri, Dakota Rolston-Fredes, Max Jacolot, Caren Khairallah, Evelyne Jewitt-Dyck, Andrew Behling, Esteban Perreault, Siera Riel, Xavier Duschenes, & Lewis Mackay
Outreach Lead
Position: Name:
Team Captain Mohammad Ghali
Technical Director Alexandre Fahmy
Aerostructures Subteam Leads Anthony Albert & Louis-Charles Trottier
Aerostructures Project Leads Phillipe Crawley, Crystal Lam, Seamus Kaip & Blake Quellmann
Recovery Subteam Leads Amanda Kronish & Michael Tablan
Recovery Project Leads Tala Abou Rizk & Alexandra Oprea
Payload Subteam Leads Theodore Glavas & Ritchie Yu
Payload Project Leads Amelia Duguay, Chloe Jacquet, Pierre Khoury & Mathieu Saltz
Avionics Subteam Leads Jasper Yun & Cao Phan
Avionics Project Leads Marco Lalonde, Dan Hosi, Adam Corbier, Jacoby Roy, Thomas Jarvis, Emily Doyle, John Issa & Fred Martin
Propulsion Subteam Leads Taj Sobral & Alexandre Fahmy
Propulsion Project Leads Anthony Côté, Emily Doyle, Kay Romann & Julien Besson
Outreach Lead Prune Huguet
Position: Name:
Team Captains Amelia Duguay & Joel Jean-Philyppe
Technical Director Jasper Yun
Aerostructures Subteam Leads Alexandre Fahmy & Page Simard
Aerostructures Project Leads Syed Ahmed, Anthony Albert, Aidan Lewandowski, Pierre Labe, & Clement Beausoleil
Recovery Subteam Leads Mavesa Nguyen & Jean-Christophe Belanger
Recovery Project Leads Michael Tablan & Amanda Kronish
Payload Subteam Lead Joel Sabot
Payload Project Leads Madalina Patron & Catherine Prattico
Avionics Subteam Leads Jasper Yun & Zheng Yu Cui
Avionics Project Leads Salim Bencekroun, Dan Hosi, Marco Lalonde, Taha Lazreg
Propulsion Subteam Leads Mohammad Ghali & Cyril Mani
Propulsion Project Leads Catherine Gaudio, John Issa, Niloy Barua, Richard Gilot, Ahmed Raslan, Taj Sobral, & Nicolas Juncos-Linch

Competitions

In 2018, the McGil Rocket Team became the second team to bring home the Genesis Cup at Spaceport America Cup. The team entered the competition with a 10,000 ft COTS rocket named Blanche, which launched nomically and was successfully recovered in the New Mexico desert. Blanche featured 50 student-designed components from a total of 53 major parts!

Since the team's fifth rocket "Blanche", the team has been hard at work redesigning their 30K COTS rockets and designing their first 10K Hybrid. Changes such as the elimination of the off-the-shelf components that remained, have saved costs and improved integration and reliability across the board. Additionally, testing has become more rigorous for all subsystems, ensuring that the next rocket will be a testament to the team's experience.

Throughout its years competing at IREC and SAC, in the 10K and 30K categories, the McGill Rocket Team has learned a great deal and is proud of the accomplishments it made along its journey.

Previous Rockets of the Rocket Team
Competition Project Placement(s)
IREC 2015 Project Peregrine I 32nd of 44 in 10K COTS solid category. Unknown launch and no recovery.
IREC 2016 Project Peregrine II 29th of 45 in 10K COTS solid category. Nominal launch with recovery.
SAC 2017 Project Aeris 30th of 45 in 10K COTS solid category. Nominal launch and no recovery.
SAC 2017 Project Stella 3rd of 6 in 30k COTS solid category. Horizontal trajectory after Max Q.
SAC 2018 Project Blanche 1st of 47 in 10K COTS solid category. Nominal launch with recovery.
SAC 2018 Project Stella II 7th of 15 in 30K COTS solid category. Nominal launch and loss of GPS.
SAC 2019 Project Caladan 4th of 19 in 30K COTS solid category. Nominal launch and loss of GPS.
SAC 2020 Project Aramis Cancelled due to COVID-19.
Virtual SAC 2021 Project Aramis 3rd of 8 in 30K COTS solid category. No launch (COVID-19).
SAC 2022 Project Athos 2nd of 8 in 10K SRAD hybrid category. No launch.
SAC 2023 Project Porthos 4th of 8 in 10k SRAD hybrid category. No launch due to tornado.
LC 2023 Project Porthos 2nd in Advanced Category. Nominal launch with recovery.


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