I am amazed that no one has thought to buy RD-120K engines from Yuzhmash and built a medium lift LV around that available and tested engine.
Visited the Jarmyn booth yesterday at the Australian Space Forum. They are still working on their SSTO methalox launch vehicle here in Adelaide. They had a 3D printed model of their engine on display, which uses an extendable nozzle for vacuum operation. They are currently looking for investors. Launch date of the Hawk Jr vehicle with 50 kg payload is 2025. They are not planning on using a kick stage (I expect that will change once they start launching).In sea level configuration, their Swift engine varies from a thrust of 395 kN to 415 kN at 15 km with 343 s Isp. Vacuum configuration varies from 415 kN at 15 km to 435 kN in vacuum with 360 s Isp. Engine mode is full flow staged combustion!https://www.jarmynenteprisespace.com.auHere's a video of their booth, showing a scale model of Hawk Jr.https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6782934846764326912/
Rocketlab has repeated their successful launch 16 times.Has any of the other ones "above the line" done a successful flight?Some pages had Ceres-1 scheduling a second flight last month, but it does not appear on NSF's "Chinese Launch Schedule".And Astra is somewhat "ahead of the competition" after at least launching twice.
In the light of many launch companies going public with SPACs, it looks like SEC is reevaluating the rules for SPACs: https://spacenews.com/spac-rule-changes-add-complexity-and-delays-for-space-companies-eying-public-markets/
Stefan Powell of Dawn Aerospace on FISO last week.http://fiso.spiritastro.net/telecon/Powell_4-28-21/Not lot new, have finally gain flight clearance for Aurora II to start test flights out of South Island airfield. Don't think its actually flown yet.Sold a few of their cubesat thrusters with some in space. 285ISP VAC is quite respectable from their pressure fed Nitrous/Propane thrusters. No mention of Aurora engine my guess is its same fuel combination. Aurora III is now being designed for 250kg to orbit. My guess is its still a powerpoint LV at this stage. Successful flights of II should help with fund raising. Aurora can glide back to airfield from 300km down range. Sent from my SM-G570Y using Tapatalk
There's also ArcaSpace's EcoRocket, with its maiden flight still scheduled for June 2021. I didn't see it mentioned in this thread
Quote from: Fmedici on 05/03/2021 09:56 pmThere's also ArcaSpace's EcoRocket, with its maiden flight still scheduled for June 2021. I didn't see it mentioned in this threadThey've got their own thread. This one is generally used for companies which don't have the fame (or notoriety) to merit standalone threads.If you're specifically asking why they're not in PM3's latest schedule, I can't speak with certainty, but I expect that reflects PM3's belief in the likelihood that ARCAspace will launch a vehicle to orbit.
If you're specifically asking why they're not in PM3's latest schedule, I can't speak with certainty, but I expect that reflects PM3's belief in the likelihood that ARCAspace will launch a vehicle to orbit.
I haven't noticed that someone mentioned Skyrora in this thread. Perhaps I just haven't noticed it, so correct me if I'm wrong. Skyrora is a Scottish smallsat launcher and launch vehicle manufacturer, and they plan to launch their most famous spacecraft Skyrora XL rocket in 2022.
Quote from: Comga on 04/07/2021 09:54 pmRocketlab has repeated their successful launch 16 times.Has any of the other ones "above the line" done a successful flight?Some pages had Ceres-1 scheduling a second flight last month, but it does not appear on NSF's "Chinese Launch Schedule".And Astra is somewhat "ahead of the competition" after at least launching twice.Well, everything "above the line" has had at least one successful launch, but Hyperbola-1 is the only one (other than Electron) which has attempted a launch after their first successful launch, and that second launch wasn't successful.Oddly enough, only Electron, LauncherOne, and SS-520 had an unsuccessful flight before their first successful flights: the others flew successfully the first time. Note that for the SS-520, I'm not counting its first two suborbital launches, since arguably those aren't the same vehicle. (Although IIRC there was some reason to question whether the second launch of Hyperbola-1 was the same vehicle as the first, but I digress...)
