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| label2 = Year founded | data2 = 2014
| label3 = Members | data3 = 140
| label4 = Competitions | data4 = Spaceport America Cup (IREC), Base11 Space Challenge, Launch Canada | label5 = Recruitment | data5 = 95100% Fall semester, 5% in Winter semester | label6 = Links | data6 = [https://www.facebook.com/McGillRocketTeam/ Facebook], [https://www.instagram.com/mcgill_rocket_team/, Instagram], [https://www.mcgillrocketteam.com/ Website],
| label7 = Contact us | data7 = 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 has the Rocket Team participated had been the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) , now called Spaceport America Cup (SAC), but as of 20182022, the team entered the [http://base11spacechallenge.org/ Base11 Space Challenge] , and McGill Rocket Team 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 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 five sub-teams: various subteams; Aerostructures, Recovery, Avionics, Propulsion, Payload, Propulsion, and ManagementLogistics. 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. Additionally === Recovery ===The Recovery Subteam, Aerostructures is responsible for as the name suggests, focuses on the recovery apparatus 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 parachutesand their deployment as well as other systems that aim to help retrieve the rocket after touchdown. This includes the ejection systems, shock cords, etc.) the parachute themselves and its integration with the internal structurerecovery harness.
=== Avionics ===
===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 systemsis primarily responsible for the design, manufacturing and verification of the related infrastructure. For IREC/SAC, Propulsion selects suitable solid rocket motors from known retailers by performing flight simulationsengine. For other types Secondary responsibilities mostly encompass the testing of engines, Propulsion designs and tests individual the propulsion components and performs at the appropriate analysis to predict and understand engine performance. Since rocket engine design is risky businesstest site located in MacDonald Campus, a new facility that was designed and built by the subteam. Propulsion also creates produces all the engine related infrastructure surrounding any such as the engine test through systematic risk analysisigniters, 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.
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