BREAKING NEWS: MAKING HISTORY
Space Concordia Space Health Division's Micro2 Project Enters SEDS-CANADA'S CAN-RGX Competition
The Space Health Division we will be participating in a parabolic flight to test the MICRO2 experiment, a project conducted in pursuit of better understanding the human immune response through changed induced by reduced gravity, as well as stress on genes induced by hypergravity. MICRO2’s experimental design consists of using microfluidic platforms which can non-invasively mimic similar effects on the Saccharomyces Cerevesiaie II yeast cell, a eukaryotic cell which shares many common features to the human cell. Hypotheses in the current experiment may contribute to understanding the effects of gravitational forces on human cells, and consequently, factors in cell reproduction.
Space Concordia Rocketry Division Fires The World's Most Powerful Student-Built Rocket Engine
Space Concordia’s Rocketry division has been building bigger and better sounding rockets since 2014. Starting with altitudes of 10,000ft., the team participated in the Spaceport America Cup, the world’s largest rocketry competition, consisting of over 125 international universities. In summer 2018, SC launched their first supersonic rocket, Supersonice, with a solid motor to a target altitude of 30,000ft, carrying a sophisticated fluid dynamic experiment onboard. As Concordia University’s first supersonic vehicle, the rocket reached speeds of over 2400km/h in just 3 seconds. The 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.
Now the Rocketry Division is shooting even higher.
Originally competing in the Base 11 Space Challenge, an intercollegiate challenge to develop a single-stage liquid fuel rocket to surpass the Karman line at 100 km of altitude and get to space, SC Rocketry aims to become the first student team to build a rocket that will reach space. Despite a global pandemic, the team has already built most of the flight vehicle, and has successfully tested the rocket engine in the summer of 2021. The rocket engine test was a world-record setting event, as it was the largest rocket engine ever fired by students.
WHO ARE WE?
Space Concordia is a student society at Concordia University that throws its members at challenging space and aerospace projects, to yield awesome results. We win awards at national and international competitions, we showcase our school, but most importantly: Space Concordia teaches and trains excellent young scientists and engineers through hands-on work and an attitude of persistence and collaboration.
OUR DIVISIONS
OUR MISSION
Space Concordia is an award-winning multidisciplinary student society of over 200 students. Our members make groundbreaking attributions in our Robotics, Rocketry, Spacecraft, and Space Health divisions.
Space Concordia makes a continuous effort to be more than just your average student society with a typical competition-based structure; we aim to be similar to a space agency where we show our expertise not only through the projects we develop, but also through the actions we do on a larger scale to benefit society as a whole.
JOIN OUR SPACE JOURNEY
Space Concordia is a student society at Concordia University that throws its members at challenging space and aerospace projects, to yield awesome results. We win awards at national and international competitions, we showcase our school, but most importantly: Space Concordia teaches and trains excellent young scientists and engineers through hands-on work and an attitude of persistence and collaboration.
Our Team
Although we only have a couple of members listed here, Space Concordia is composed of a much larger team of equally passionate people. Our job as executives is to act as ambassadors for the team and to support all Space Concordia members. We're proud and honored to be part of such an amazing team.
Matteo Mazzone
Patrick Baylis
Thomas-Kamil Brochet
Sonia Li
We invite members to read through the Space Concordia Constitution. Members are also free to suggest changes to the document.
Space Concordia ConstitutionSponsors
We would like to thank all of our sponsors for their contributions. We would also like to reassure our sponsors that they are part of something greater than just student competitions.
We are working very hard to go beyond your average student society to prove to our sponsors and to the public that we are capable of accomplishing much more when given the resources to do so.
Your contributions have most certainly not been put to waste and we will work hard to make sure to secure an even brighter future for Space Concordia.
