There was no shortage of new recruits at Build Day 2018 They beat out Caltech and MIT to bring home the trophy in their category. The 10‑month‑old club arrives at the inaugural Spaceport America Cup with their first rocket to compete against 110 teams in the world’s largest intercollegiate rocket engineering conference and competition. June 2017, somewhere near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Applicant numbers are overwhelming, and Rocket becomes UBC’s largest student engineering design team. “From then on,” says Fortier, “it was all rockets.” His timing impeccable, a Google search turns up the newly minted club. When SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida toward the International Space Station, Hubert Fortier watches live along with millions. Just like that, he is on his way to Vancouver.Įngineering students Joren Jackson and Simon Bambey co-found UBC Rocket – Rocket for short – dedicated to the design, manufacture, and launch of suborbital rockets. A week later, as family and friends are deciding whether to rebuild or relocate, Fortier receives an acceptance letter from UBC. That May, 125 wildfires burn through Alberta, 37 of them out of control, and one takes down his home. He’s submitted applications to a few universities, but he’s counting on a career in the trades. Nineteen-year-old Hubert Fortier is nearly a year out of high school and apprenticing as a welder.
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