Space Concordia’s Rocketry Division has been building bigger and better sounding rockets since 2014. Starting with altitudes of 10,000 ft., our team has participated in the Spaceport America Cup, the world’s largest rocketry competition, attended by over 125 international universities. In summer 2018, we launched our first supersonic rocket, Supersonice, with a solid rocket motor, to a target alti
tude of 30,000 ft. This rocket carried a sophisticated fluid dynamics experiment onboard. As Concordia University’s first supersonic vehicle, the rocket reached speeds of over 2400 km/h in just 3 seconds. Our team triumphed: winning 1st place in both the Advanced Category and the Space Dynamics Payload Challenge over universities such as Stanford, MIT, Caltech, and McGill. We aspire to become the first student team to build a liquid propelled rocket that will pass the Karman line (100 km. of altitude) and reach space. Despite the global pandemic, we have been able to build and test the largest rocket in Canada: StarSailor. The rocket's engine was successfully tested in the summer of 2021. The test became a world-record setting event, as it was the largest rocket engine developed and fired by students. Our team plans to launch to space in late 2022 from Canada.
