University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team - USST

🚀 USST Winter Recruitment Night 🚀
Soar to new heights with the USST and explore the growing Canadian Aerospace sector!

The University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team (USST) is hosting our Winter Recruitment Event on:

📅 January 20
⏰ 6:00 PM
📍 Engineering 2C40

USST is a multidisciplinary design team, and we welcome students from all majors and backgrounds. No prior experience is required — just interest and willingness to learn. We have opportunities ranging from organizational and leadership roles to hands-on technical and engineering positions.

If you’re interested in space, rocketry, satellites, engineering, project management, media, finance — or you’re a current member looking to get more involved — this is a great opportunity to connect with the team.

Bring a friend, ask questions, and come see what we’re building 🚀

said it best; “can only go UP from here!”🎶

Our team is currently in Timmins, ON at the Launch Canada Challenge ready to launch our second-ever high powered rocket, UP! Stay tuned to learn more about our rocket, the process and some sneak peaks into competition shenanigans!🚀

We made it! Thank you everyone who made it to the USST end of year BBQ!
A special thanks to all the grads this year, we know you’ll go on to do great things!

Feeling nerdy? Come cheer on our team members as they present at the Saskatoon Nerd Nite on Tuesday October 2nd!

Join us on October 5th and 6th for the Saskatoon outlet event of NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge! Everyone is welcome! Signup link can be found in our link tree!

See you all soon!

Some 👍 moments from the competition so far:
1. We passed the visual inspections
2. The judges did a pre-launch evaluation
3. We assembled our motor; due to the explosive nature of the motor it was shipped directly to Timmins for assembly. It will remain under the care of some Launch Canada experts until our rocket is put on the launch pad and is ready to launch.
4. After a master class with a resident expert, our main parachute is folded and ready for deployment!

The first two days of the Launch Canada competition are conference days. We have been enjoying sharing the details of our project, networking with other teams and experts, and attending the presentations. We have been “fueling up” on great ideas that we can apply to the next rocket!

Don’t forget to purchase your USST and RADSAT-SK merch!! Deadline is Nov 4 at 11:59pm

Two of the RADSAT-SK project managers, Dustin Preece and Layne Ransom, attended the IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE) in Winnipeg, MB. They gave a presentation on the abstract entitled “Lessons Learned thus far in the CCP RADSAT-SK CubeSat Design Project” with authors Layne Ransom, Dustin Preece, Arliss Sidloski, and Dr. Sean Maw. The conference was an incredible learning opportunity and many connections were made with other CubeSat teams!!

Thanks for coming to the recruitment event, everyone! We had an unreal turnout! Reminder that there is a new member orientation this Saturday (September 17) @ 12pm in Eng 2C02 - all are welcome!

Some very exciting news for RADSAT-SK: the timer board has been completely tested and is fully functioning!! The entire team would like to thank for all the help they provided over the summer. We would not have a mission without Luc and his team, so their contributions mean so much to us. THANK YOU!!!