Resources

MACH

• MACH 2025 LCR

• MACH 2024 LCR

• MACH 2025 LC PDR

• MACH 2023 LCR

• Sponsorship Package 2022-2023

• DayGlo P&ID

MACH in the News

• Toronto Metropolitan University Student Branch: Building a Professional Community (Aerospace America, October 29, 2025) - Archived PDF

• The Creative Enterprise Hub: A Space for Students to Build Their Futures (Society of The Creative School, May 6, 2025) - Archived PDF

• Flownex Student Rocketry Highlights (PADT, December 15, 2023) - Archived PDF

• Zone Learning hits the street with student startup opportunities (TorontoMet Today, October 10, 2023) - Archived PDF

• Second Launch Canada Competition in Timmins Draws 18 Student Rocket Teams (SpaceQ, September 13, 2023) - Archived PDF

• Canadian Student Rocket Challenge Sees Significant Growth for 2023 (SpaceQ, February 10, 2023) - Archived PDF

• The future of space engineering is Bold (The Eyeopener, January 31, 2023) - Archived PDF

• Ryerson group setting sights high on national rocket competition (The Eyeopener, October 22, 2020) - Archived PDF

• Ryerson student team on track to complete new rocket (On The Record, October 7, 2020) - Archived PDF

• Ryerson University Reverses Course and Approves Rocketry Propulsion Group Funding (SpaceQ, October 24, 2019) - Archived PDF

• Students' rocket dreams grounded by Ryerson University (CBC News, August 10, 2019) - Archived PDF

• Pioneering Ryerson Rocketry Students in Conflict With Engineering School Administration (SpaceQ, July 2019) - Archived PDF

Papers

• A. Karabeyoglu, J. Dyer, J. Stevens, and B. Cantwell, “Modeling of N₂O decomposition events,” in Proc. 44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conf., Hartford, CT, Jul. 2008, AIAA Paper 2008-4933.

• B. J. Solomon, Engineering Model to Calculate Mass Flow Rate of a Two-Phase Saturated Fluid Through an Injector Orifice, M.S. report, Dept. Mech. and Aerosp. Eng., Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, USA, 2011.

• Dyer, J., Doran, E., Dunn, Z., Lohner, K., Bayart, C., Sadhwani, A., Cantwell, B., and Karabeyoglu, A., "Design and Development of a 100 km Nitrous Oxide / Paraffin Hybrid Rocket Vehicle"

• E. V. Niño and M. R. Razavi, “Design of two-phase injectors using analytical and numerical methods with application to hybrid rockets,” in AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2019 Forum, Indianapolis, IN, Aug. 2019, AIAA Paper 2019-4154. doi: 10.2514/6.2019-4154

Youngblood

• Nitrous Oxide Ethanol Bi-propellant Rocket Engine & Gas Generator Development and Testing
• Design and Testing of a Liquid Nitrous Oxide and Ethanol Fueled Rocket Engine

Waxman

• Waxman: Mass Flow Rate and Isolation Characteristics of Injectors for Use with Self-Pressurizing Oxidizers in Hybrid Rockets

• Waxman: Investigation of Injectors for Use with High Vapor Pressure Propellants with Applications to Hybrid Rockets

Zimmerman

• Zimmerman, J. E., "Self-Pressurizing Propellant Tank Dynamics," Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA, Dec. 2015.

Textbooks

• Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines
• Sutton, G. and Biblarz, O., Rocket Propulsion Elements, Wiley and Sons, New York, 9th ed., 2017

Software

• HalfCatSim
• CEARUN
• REFPROP
• RPA

Launch Canada Guidelines

• Launch Canada Rules and Requirements Guide 2025R3
• Launch Canada Design, Test & Evaluation Guide R3

Design for Manufacturing

• Avionics DFM Guide - Comprehensive guide for PCB design and manufacturing with JLCPCB

References

• Parker O-Ring Handbook
• AER622 Appendix