News and Team Updates

UAS has been busy! AEAC recently completed a design review and has done several successful flight tests. They will be building a new quadcopter and improving their legacy hexacopter UT-Cyclone to accomplish the two competition tasks. AEAC Flight Dynamics is pleased with how their PID tuning is progressing. AEAC Electrical has been building up their electrical theory knowledge and soldering skills. SAE and AEAC Electrical have both finalized their propulsion systems for this year's UAVs. SAE Electrical is also working towards a PCB design for their avionics. AEAC Airframe and SAE Structures have been hard at work at UTIAS, making their carbon fiber layups. AEAC and SAE Software have been collaborating to explore the use of Wi-Fi communication between the ground station and aircraft. SAE is developing the preliminary design for a brand new tiltrotor tricopter configuration for this year's competition ruleset. This poses an exciting challenge for all subteams as they adapt their design tools and methods.

It has been a busy month for Rocketry! Just last week, Dauntless, the first staging rocket in team history was successfully launched at the Upstate Research Rocketry Group (URRG) in New York. During the team’s launch with URGG, eight members of the team were able to successfully obtain their L1 rocketry certifications. Additionally the team has issued an architecture freeze for our liquid rocket, Discovery, along with this architecture freeze, our high-level recovery system architecture has been validated. Testing is currently underway and our Initial Design Proposal is complete and ready to be presented to Launch Canada!

October sees Space Systems making developments on their FINCH Cube Satellite along with outreach events for UofT’s Fall Campus Day!

Click here to find out more on the new FINCH CubeSat Developments!