New engine design will get payloads to orbit ‘dramatically’ cheaper.
February 29TH, 2024
Ian Brooke, founder of Astro Mechanica, announced his company has invented a new type of electric ship engine.
Ian posted to X earlier today:
“My company Astro Mechanica has invented a new kind of jet engine. Unlike any existing engine, it's efficient at every speed. Because it's efficient at every speed, we can use it in a new way: as the first stage of an orbital launch vehicle.
The resulting platform will get payloads to orbit dramatically cheaper than all-rocket systems - among many possible applications.
The key insight is to use electric motors to drive a compressor. That way we can make it spin at any speed, allowing it to "adapt" to it's airspeed and combustion cycle.”
The most exciting part of Elon’s announcement was hidden inside the comments, the teaser that we may see the world’s first Flying car.
Astro Mechanica is a deep tech start-up based in San Francisco, California.
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