Waterloo Rocketry
200 University Ave. W Waterloo, ON, Canada

Back in late February, the FYDP (Fourth Year Design Project) group completed the development of a prototype Ethanol/Nitrous Oxide liquid engine. In tandem, we moved our testing operations to a newly acquired shipping container, nicknamed Texas, located far from any buildings. Unfortunately, during the test, the engine's combustion chamber was over-pressurised, which resulted in a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. This was not the result we were hoping for, but everybody was sa...fe, and we took away some valuable lessons from this test, which we will use to develop a new and better engine. A huge thank you to Swagelok Central Ontario & Atlantic Canada for providing many components of our plumbing system, LiftWerx for helping relocate Texas, Praxair Canada Inc. for the cylinders of Nitrous Oxide and Nitrogen, and all of our other sponsors, we could not have done this without your generous support! The test was recorded without a hitch thanks to cameras provided by Fire Cam Police and Fire Cameras, and it's up on Youtube: https://youtu.be/zRoR-EW0NYI. While the test did not go as planned, it did make for a cool video

Spaceport America has released a video highlighting our team's experience at the 2019 Spaceport America Cup! Check it out if you want to get a glimpse of what happened at competition and what it took to get there. Thank you to everyone from the Spaceport media team for your hard work in making this possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHSW9Cf7JTU

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for Model Rocket Drag Race 2019 this past weekend. It was so great to see the creative designs and beautiful paintjobs from over 20 different groups! If you enjoyed the excitement of the launches, bringing your design to life from scratch, or tweaking your designs to squeeze that one last meter out of your apogee, you will find a place on our team. Don’t forget to check out the winners below and our Flickr for photos from the weekend...! Shoutout to Pavel from Canadian Rocket Store for helping us troubleshoot our igniters. If anyone is interested in doing more model rocketry on their own time, his store (located in Kitchener) supplies everything you need to get started in the sport. Honourable mentions went to the following teams: - Furthest from the launchpad: Pink Thunder - Most spirited team: Desmos - Most tasty team: Rockets Rocket - Most thermally balanced: Zeroth Law - Most small: Yeat Fresh Finally, the winners of the event and recipients of a limited edition Waterloo Rocketry pin are: - Best style: Cloud Nine - Best flight: Gay Batman - Best overall: Tie between Moonshooter and Soviet Union https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHm7PYs

Hey you! Are you an aspiring rocketeer but missed our first couple meetings? Never fear, we are always accepting new members, no prior experience necessary! All you have to do to join is join our facebook group, mosey on down to E5 2004 for our weekly meetings at 7:30 on Thursdays, listen in and start chatting with the some of the fine people there. We're looking forward to seeing you there! https://www.facebook.com/groups/174282022653976/

Hi everyone, The deadline to sign up for Model Rocket Drag Race is this Wednesday the 25th. It's important that you sign up on the Google form so we know how much supplies to get for everyone! https://forms.gle/VLAQcDwkMKnxrn2i7... Teams are recommended to be 2-4 people, but feel free to sign up on your own and we'll help find a team for you :)

Hi Everyone! We hope your second week of classes is going splendidly. Just a reminder that our info session is happening tomorrow September 11th in E7 3353 at 7:30pm. We'll be doing an overview of our subsystems and what our team is all about, and at the end we will head down to our team bay so you guys can chat with our team members and ask any questions you might have. Hope to see you there!

Come by the SDC in E5 to visit us at the student design team showcase today 4:00pm-6:30pm! We will have team members there to talk about the team and show parts of our past rockets

Here is our first video featuring the 2019 SA Cup and 14th IREC. We have plenty more great footage that we want to share. Special thanks to Chronos Cameras for ...coming out this year to video some fantastic high speed shots, Space Dynamics Laboratory for sponsoring the payload challenge, the many Tripoli Rocketry Association members that helped run the range, all of our esteemed judges from industry, and of course all of our sponsors! More videos to come soon! Sponsors: Northrop Grumman Corporation, Blue Origin, Aerojet Rocketdyne, The Boeing Company, Jacobs Technology, Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc., Raytheon Missile Systems, Siemens, SPEXcast, United Launch Alliance, Virgin Orbit, X-Winder, LLC, Virgin Galactic, Spaceport America, https://youtu.be/JbKHkYX7zy0

Last week, our payload crew came back from Ottawa, where they were participating in the flight campaign portion of SEDS Canada’s CAN-RGX design challenge at the NRC’s Flight Research Laboratory. The team won entry into this campaign in November with our proposal for an experiment to study ferrofluids in microgravity, and came away from it with an award for outstanding outreach efforts. We would like to take a moment to thank all of our sponsors for this competition for the time, products, and money they have contributed to our efforts. This project would not have been possible without them.

For the next few days, our payload crew is in Ottawa, participating in the flight campaign for SEDS-Canada's Canadian Reduced Gravity design challenge that we were accepted for in the fall. Watch our flickr album for it (https://flic.kr/s/aHsmFo8iUk), we'll be updating it daily with photos of all the cool things being done!

Our photos from IREC are finally up on our flickr! There may be a few more pictures added in the next week, but the majority are online: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmEJMZdo