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OTRAS MISSIONS
Our team has come a long way from our conception in 2022. Since then we've had many sleepless nights doing what we love most...working on rocket deigns. With the experience of our past competitions we look forward to the future of our team and the many more sleepless nights to come.
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OT Mk III marked a major milestone for Ontario Tech Space and Rocketry as the team successfully launched its first ever two-stage rocket at the 2025 Launch Canada Challenge. Developed over a year by nearly 100 students, the 16-foot, 120-pound rocket achieved nominal stage separation before experiencing a rapid unscheduled disassembly during flight. A misaligned and unstable launch rail system resulted in a high angle of attack at liftoff, leading to greater-than-normal aerodynamic stresses that exceeded the airframe’s limits and caused shear pins and soft-body fastening systems to fail at supersonic speed.
Mission Badge Created by Israel Ogunmola,
Mentor, Rocketry Team Manager (2022-2025), and Co-Founder of the OTSR
ROCKETRY FOUNDED 2022
The OTSR was founded in 2022 as the Ontario Tech Rocketry team. The image above is the original logo used by the team in the early days. We've grown and matured significantly as a team and as an organisation since those late nights of designing the prototype of what would become The OTMKI.
THE OT MKIV
THE OT MKIII
THE OT MKII
6th Place - Launch Canada 2024
Meet OT Mk II, Ontario Tech Space and Rocketry's second-ever launch in its second year at the 2024 Launch Canada challenge. A team of approximately 45 students designed, tested, and built the rocket you see now from the ground up! Standing at 11ft tall and 60lbs heavy, on Tuesday, August 20th, 2024 at 3:06 PM, OTMKII Successfully launched from 47.9901°N, -81.8511°W, and was recovered hanging in a tree at 47.962°N, -81.875°W.
Max Altitude: 19,774 ft (1.99% error in prediction)
Max velocity: 1720.5 kph (Mach 1.39)
A special thank you to Ontario Power Generation for supplying the sensors to put in our payload bay for high-altitude ionizing radiation research. We would also like to thank our school's Ontario Tech University Engineering, as well as the Ontario Tech Engineering Students'​ Society and our incredible sponsors for their support in funding our team. Keep an eye out for what is to come next year!
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Mission Badge Created by Dylan Bender,
Chief Engineer on the OT MKI
& Co-Founder of the OTSR
THE OT MKI
OTMKI was OTSR's debut rocket for the Launch Canada competition in 2023. Equipped with dosimeters and transponders, it had a CTI N3400 Skidmark motor with 14263.3 Ns of impulse -- which is the same amount of motion as a 1-ton mass moving at 51 km/hr and it reached an altitude of 11,000 feet! Unfortunately OTMKI landed in a heavily forested area of the Canadian Shield and due to weather conditions and Launch Canada regulations, the recovery had to wait until the morning after launch. Even more unfortunately was the fact that the forest blocked radio and GPS communication, hampering the recovery process. Much of OTMKI was left in the forest for future searches but the aft section of OTMKI was found by hunters some months after launch embedded into the ground.
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