UOttawa Rocketry
800 king Edward street K1N Ottawa, ON, Canada

The airframe subteam is responsible for nearly all external body structural components. Here are a few of their current largest projects. #rocketry #geegees #pointyendupflameyenddown

A happy family. #geegees #rocketry

Please welcome Rocktopus, our flagship 30k hybrid! She'll fly at the 2021 Launch Canada Competition. #hybrid #dontletgocanada #rocket #boom #octopus #geegee

We'll be sharing some of the projects each subteam is working on. Here's a highlight of what avionics is up to. One of our largest sub teams. #rocket #uottawa #engineering #GG #geegees

The uORocketry team has existed for less than four years and in that timeframe we have developed 2 hybrid rocket engines, a novel parachute design, custom avionics system, an air-braking system, and placed top 10 internationally at the world's largest student rocketry competition, SpacePort America Cup. We have a long way to go to reach our final goal of The Karman Line: an altitude of 100km. The team is currently fabricating a larger hybrid motor, improving on our inverted-reefed parachute, a more powerful flight computer, flight simulations model, and designing a new airframe. None of this could have been possible without the support of our faculty, generous sponsors, and our family and friends. We are asking for your help in reaching our funding goals for this year and encourage you to visit our GoFundMe linked in our bio!

A wild Jen was recently photographed sewing away at prototype test parachutes. Think you can spot Octopet? #uottawa #rocket #artsandcrafts #wildlifephotography

Our avionics team is working on several big projects this year, from collecting sensor data from test rigs to designing a temperature-controlled experiment to putting together a Raspberry Pi-based flight computer for our rockets. We also continuously conduct tests on sensors, motors, and other components using quick scripts thrown together on Arduino Nanos. All of these projects are coordinated remotely across our team spread out around Canada. As a result, we often need multiple copies of our setups so that everyone can test and implement updates at home. For this reason, we are so thankful to our sponsor BuyaPi.ca for helping stock up on much-needed microcontrollers and electronics equipment! We especially love their all-inclusive Raspberry Pi 4B kits that came with heat sinks, chargers, cases, and SD cards.

Flying into the 6th week of sponsor appreciation, we would like to take a moment and thank ArkaLumen for their in-kind contribution to the CAN-RGX project! The CAN-RGX team uses LED lightstrips from ArkaLumen to fix a dye onto e. Coli sample. This basically freezes the samples at different points during the parabolic flight without having drastic changes in temperature Attached are pictures of the lights being tested and they will be used in a microgravity, parabolic flight experiment this coming February. Check out more from ArkaLumen on their website: http://www.arkalumen.com/