Vehicle · 2026 · Launch Canada

Osiris

Our highest and fastest vehicle to date.

Flight record

What it did.

Figures come from the onboard flight computer.

Apogee
33,551 ft feet above ground level
Max velocity
Mach 1.92 at burnout
Max acceleration
16.1 G peak, from flight data
Length
3.2 m (124.8 in) overall, tip to tail
Liftoff mass
13.4 kg dry / 29.9 kg wet fuelled, with payload
Motor
CTI O3400 designation and impulse class
Recovery
3 ft drogue @ apogee · 10 ft main @ 1373 ft drogue and main configuration
Result
1st, Payload Challenge
The build

How it was made.

Osiris introduced two firsts for the team: functional airbrakes, and a student-designed flight computer that had already been flight-tested before competition, so we could fly it as a backup with confidence. The 101.6 mm (4 in) minimum-diameter airframe used fiberglass tubes rolled in-house, with carbon fibre tip-to-tip fin layups. It flew on a CTI O3400 (21,062 N·s), the most powerful motor in team history. Blue Raven flew as primary with Void Lake as SRAD backup. Dual-deploy recovery fired drogue near apogee and main at 1,373 ft AGL. Peak velocity was 642.5 m/s (Mach 1.92 at burnout).

Gallery

At competition.

Four team members hold the assembled Osiris airframe, OSIRIS lettering and bib number 25 visible, at the competition venue.
The assembled airframe on display. OSIRIS lettering and bib 25 on the tube.
The open airframe before final assembly: left to right, the airbrake actuator, the avionics bay, and the payload section.
Open before final assembly: airbrake actuator, avionics bay, and payload section in line.
The team stands beside Osiris, vertical on the rail, before launch.
Beside the airframe on the rail. Last checks before launch.
The recovery team in the bush, holding the recovered airframe sections beside the caught parachute.
The recovery crew in the bush with the airframe sections and caught parachute.
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We hire first years.

We hire people who have never touched a rocket. Come ready to learn. We'll teach the rest.

Find us at Facultyfest on August 31, 12:30 to 17:00, or Clubsfest on September 14, 16:30 to 19:30 on the JHE field. Applications close September 18. You don't need to be an engineer: we need people on operations as much as on airframe.

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