Designing, constructing and launching amateur-class rockets to represent QMUL at competitions across the UK and beyond.
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“Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.” - Sally Ride
We are the Queen Mary Aurora Initiative, a society built to design, construct and launch competition rockets from scratch. We founded this organisation with the aim of providing committed students across all schools of QM a way to enhance their experience at university. Having won an award for 'Most Original Design' for our Cansat experiment at Mach-23 in Scotland, we aim to design our very own rocket for attendance at the competition this year.
Aurora is a completely open society, we welcome poeple from all courses, schools and paths of life. Whether you do Engineering, Political science, Biology or film theres always more room on the rocket (metaphorically speaking, in a literal sense those things are pretty packed). There are no strict requirements for joining, with the nature of the project, no matter what course you're doing, everything should be fairly new (as long as QM doesnt start a rocket engineering course that is). All we expect from our members is a commitment to learn on the job.
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