The space race continues
We have been working tirelessly for the past 16 months on this project. If we are successful we will be the first students to build a rocket to reach space, and we will have built the most powerful amateur rocket motor in history.
We are a small team and we are all working very hard to achieve this goal. We are currently completing our rocket engine test stand, and are aiming to fire the engine before the end of the summer.
Humble origins, big aspirations
Space Concordia was founded 10 years ago with their first entry, Consat-1, in the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC).
With less than 10 members, the team designed and built Concordia’s first CubeSat, and won first place at the CSDC. While the competition promised a launch as the first-place prize, money was an issue and, unfortunately, the satellite was grounded.
Over the past 10 years, Space Concordia has grown considerably. The space society now encompasses over 150 members from all four faculties in its three divisions: Spacecraft, Robotics and Rocketry.
The Rocketry Division of Space Concordia is focusing all its time, energy and skills into producing our first-ever propulsion system, and the greatest project in Concordia’s history.
With passion and perseverance, we aim to complete Space Concordia’s first suborbital launch vehicle for lift-off in 2020. We want to deliver Consat-1 past the Karman Line, and finally give it a taste of space.
After all, this is Space Concordia. Not high-altitude Concordia!
Watch a video of Supersonice, Space Concordia’s first supersonic rocket and the team’s first entry in the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) advanced category. The rocket placed first in the advanced category and in the Space Dynamics Payload Challenge for its dynamic fluid slosh experiment.