Streams/Sub-Teams

Rocketry Stream (Launch Canada Challenge)Unmanned Aerial Systems Stream
Propulsion members shall:
●design, Manufacture and test the UAS’s rocket engines
â—Źwork with the rest of the sub-teams to ensure that the Rocket can satisfy the objectives set by the team for the competition

Aerostructures members shall:
●analyze, design, test and assemble the UAS Rocket’s airframes.
â—Źwork with the rest of the sub-teams to ensure that the Rocket can satisfy the objectives set by the team for the competition

Payload members shall:
●design, integrate, and deploy scientific experiments for the team’s rocket.

Recovery members shall:
â—Źdesign, test, and implement the systems that ensure a safe and controlled
descent of the rocket after flight.
â—Źwork with the rest of the sub-teams to ensure that the Rocket can satisfy the objectives set by the team for the competition

Avionics members shall:
â—Źrun the analysis, integration, and testing of all electronic systems within the rocket.
â—Źwork with the rest of the sub-teams to ensure that the Rocket can satisfy the
objectives set by the team for the competition

Scientific Report members shall:
●document the team’s engineering accomplishments
●write the team’s Preliminary Design Reports (PDR)
●write the team’s Final Design reports (FDR)
â—ŹSubmit and publish the reports to the Launch Canada Rocketry Challenge
Mechanical members shall:
â—Źdesign, analyze, manufacture, and test the airframe of the drone
â—Źuse CAD software (SolidWorks, ANSYS, etc.) to design the parts
â—Źselect the technology (3D Printing, CNC Machining, etc.) to use to manufacture
the airframe of the drone

Software members shall:
â—ŹProgram the drone’s flight controllers to perform tasks involving computer vision, automated data processing, navigation or path planning

Electrical members shall:
â—ŹProvide the drone with power supply
â—ŹEngineer the control and communication of the drone
â—ŹTests and combine electrical components such as flight controllers, batteries, compass, lidar, electronic speed controllers, transmitters and receivers.
â—ŹPerform soldering, RF link design, cable management, actuation and propulsion selection

Flight Dynamics members shall:
â—ŹKeep the drone in the air safely
â—ŹMake use of PID tuning using software-in-the-loop and test data
â—ŹHandle the drone’s communication systems, and plan out flight tests.

UNB Aerospace Society

UNB Saint John

100 Tucker Park Rd, Saint John,

New Brunswick E2L 4L5, CA