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McGill '''''Rocket Team''''' is a McGill Club that engages in competitive rocket building. The club is associated with and receives funds from EUS, but is also open to accepting members from all faculties, with any level of experience. The team usually builds two rockets each year, a basic model and an advanced model. The team competes in national and international competitions, most notably the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) during the summer. The team is quite large, currently at about 140 members.
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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 has been the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC), but as of 2018, the team entered the [http://base11spacechallenge.org/ Base11 Space Challenge] , and is planning to compete in the first [http://www.launchcanada.org/ Launch Canada] competition in summer 2020. The team, founded in 2014, has since grown from 20 members to 140 members, and is among the biggest design teams
 
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McGill Rocket Team is split into seven sub-teams. The sub-teams include Aerodynamics, Structures, Payload, Propulsion, Avionics, Business and Multimedia.
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McGill Rocket Team is split into five sub-teams: Aerostructures, Avionics, Payload, Propulsion, and Management. Each sub-team operates as a semi-autonomous entity, with project requirements set by team leadership at the beginning of the design cycle.
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The aerodynamics team is responsible for designing and building the external shape of the rocket, which involves geometric reasoning in order to reduce drag as much as possible. Structures involved in the exterior of the rocket include the nose cone, body tube, boat tail and fins. Additionally, the team is responsible for researching and choosing materials that will be used to construct the external structures of the rocket, as well as determining the assembly of these materials and structures.
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=== Aerostructures ===
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===Structures===
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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. Additionally, Aerostructures is responsible for the recovery apparatus (parachutes, shock cords, etc.) and its integration with the internal structure.
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The structures team is responsible for the design and construction of the mechanisms behind the internal components of the rocket.  These mechanisms include the ejection charges, parachute deployment, payload ejection, and decoupling. The team conducts research on plausible internal designs as well as materials and construction of the desired components.  Finally, the team is involved in construction, where all internal structure components are ideally built locally, assembled, and installed.
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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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The payload team is responsible for designing and building a specific component to the rocket that will carry out some function following rocket deployment. The team utilizes mathematical modeling and computer-aided design (CAD) to later produce and test the payload, which can be scientific or technical in nature. The payload executes the ultimate goal of the rocket launching.
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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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The propulsion team is responsible for everything related to our rocket motor systems.  Currently, we are working on a Hybrid Motor, a Rotating Detonation Engine, Thrust Vectoring, and Nozzle design. The Propulsion Team also selects appropriate purchasable solid motors for our smaller rocket.
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Propulsion focuses on rocket engine systems, and the related infrastructure. For IREC, Propulsion selects suitable solid rocket motors from known retailers by performing flight simulations. For other types of engines, Propulsion designs and tests individual components and performs the appropriate analysis to predict and understand engine performance. Since rocket engine design is risky business, Propulsion also creates the infrastructure surrounding any engine test through systematic risk analysis.
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The Avionics subteam is responsible for a wide array of electrical systems of the rocket, including but not limited to: decoupling detonation circuits, communications, and rocket telemetry. Avionics is also responsible for the design of the compartments in which the electronics are situated, which include the avionics bay for the main electronics, the engine ignition bay for ignition electronics, the pitot tube bay, and the decoupler bay. These compartments are designed in coordination with the Internal Structures and Aerodynamics subteams.  The Avionics team converts the rocket from a ballistic tube to an electric tube that flies safely (depending on how well we do our job).
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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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The business team is responsible for maintaining the financial oversight of the construction of the rockets, which involves forecasting an estimate of the budget needed to complete the projects and preparing a list of potential companies and organizations to be approached for potential sponsorship.
 
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The multimedia team is responsible for the management of all social media outlets for Rocket Team, team photography and videography, website design and managing, team graphic design, and designing/ordering team merchandise.
 
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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 has been the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC), but as of 2018, the team entered the Base11 Space Challenge , and is planning to compete in the first Launch Canada competition in summer 2020. The team, founded in 2014, has since grown from 20 members to 140 members, and is among the biggest design teams

Subteams

McGill Rocket Team is split into five sub-teams: Aerostructures, Avionics, Payload, Propulsion, and Management. Each sub-team operates as a semi-autonomous entity, with project requirements set by team leadership at the beginning of the design cycle.

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. Additionally, Aerostructures is responsible for the recovery apparatus (parachutes, shock cords, etc.) and its integration with the internal structure.

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 focuses on rocket engine systems, and the related infrastructure. For IREC, Propulsion selects suitable solid rocket motors from known retailers by performing flight simulations. For other types of engines, Propulsion designs and tests individual components and performs the appropriate analysis to predict and understand engine performance. Since rocket engine design is risky business, Propulsion also creates the infrastructure surrounding any engine test through systematic risk analysis.

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.

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