Project Caladan (2019)

Caladan 30K COTS

The McGill Rocket Team is making its 5th consecutive entry in the Spaceport America Cup/Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition with Project Caladan. Caladan is MRT’s third attempt at a 30,000 ft COTS rocket, following the off-nominal flight of Stella in 2017 and the failure to recover Stella II in 2018.

Adhering to the MRT’s principle of relentless iterative improvement, project Caladan seeks to drastically improve the team’s avionics capabilities, which has historically been the team’s most pronounced weakness. Other subsystems have also undergone subtle yet substantial design revisions, resulting in a rocket that is lighter and smaller than previousdesigns despite having a heavier and more functional avionics bay.

Results

Spaceport America Cup 2019

30K COTS Category: 4th/19