About Us
MACH was founded in 2017 as Ryerson Propulsion Group, with the goal of building a liquid engine for a suborbital sounding rocket. We are aiming to be one of the first teams in Canada to test and fly a Student Researched and Developed bipropellant liquid rocket engine.
Our first engine and its supporting systems - the Borealis, has completed the design phase and is currently being manufactured.
Concurrently, we are in the early manufacturing stages for GAR-E, a rapidly iterative engine design to develop our flightweight systems. We will be conducting a number of tests in the next several months, working towards a static hot-fire within the year.
Using the experience and data from Borealis and GAR-E, we will refine our design methodology to develop a flightweight engine and propellant system, then integrate it into an airframe for flight testing.
As a student design team, MACH offers more than just yearly competitions. Our primary goal is to provide a unique and challenging real-world engineering experience to our members.
Our team takes on one of the most challenging projects in the aerospace sector, offering a unique opportunity to participate in a research, design, manufacturing, and testing process rarely found outside of cutting-edge space industry.
In addition to the constant iterations of our liquid engine design, our team has accomplished a great deal within the Canadian rocketry community. Despite the difficulties of the pandemic over much of the past several years, our team members have:
Designed, produced, and hot-fired a resin-printed propane engine.
Participated in the setup and hot-fire test of a Rocketdyne LR-101 liquid engine, which helped bring the Mercury astronauts to space.
Published and presented a research paper on our design methodology at the 2022 CI/CS Combustion Conference.
Participated in and assisted with Launch Canada 2022, the first student rocketry competition ever held in Canada.
Hosted “Rocketry Bootcamp” for our team as well as the TMU engineering community, a workshop series on rocket engine design and manufacturing.