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Sirius Space Services is a rocket manufacturing company from Paris, Ile-de-France, France, founded in 2020. [1] The company is developing three rockets (launch vehicles): Sirius 1, Sirius 13, Sirius 15 , which use STAR-1 engine. [2] [3] The launch facilities will be Arnhem Space Centre (Australia) and Guiana Space Centre. [4]
Engine Origin Designer Vehicle Status Use Propellant Power cycle Specific impulse (s) [a] Thrust (N) [a] Chamber pressure (bar) Mass (kg) Thrust: weight ratio [b] Oxidiser: fuel ratio
Estes Industries was founded by Vernon Estes in 1958; in 1961, the company moved to a 77-acre tract of land on the outskirts of Penrose, Colorado. [10] [1] In 1969, Vernon sold the company to the Damon Corporation of Needham, Massachusetts, a company which also purchased a number of other hobby companies including a smaller competitor of Estes, Centuri Engineering of Phoenix, Arizona.
Ion engine: 1 1: Mercury Cesium: NASA: NASA Hughes: Space Electric Rocket Test, suborbital (31 min), the first demonstration of an ion engine in space - only the mercury engine by NASA was operated Program 661A Flight B: 29 Aug 1964: 29 Aug 1964: Ion engine: 1: Cesium: USAF: EOS: Suborbital, experimental test (19 min operation) Zond 2: 30 Nov ...
The engine has an article of at least Start class. The engine has been test fired, at least at the flight component or sub-scale level. The intent is for the rocket to be used in an orbital launch vehicle in the next five years. Examples: SCE-200 or Raptor (rocket engine) as of 2016. Option B. The engine has an article of at least Start class.
Now known as the Medium Launch Vehicle, or MLV, the rocket is now 4.32 m (14.17 ft) in diameter with 7 Miranda engines on the first stage and 1 Vira engine on the second stage. [52] It will be capable of delivering over 16,000 kg to LEO in a 5 m (16.4 ft) fairing. [ 53 ]
Development of the engine was temporarily discontinued with the cancellation of the Space Launch Initiative. [7] Since 2000, TRW has been acquired by Northrop Grumman and development of the TR-107 RP-1/LOX rocket engine began in 2001 for potential use on next-generation launch and space transportation vehicles is continuing under contract to NASA.
The TR-106 or low-cost pintle engine (LCPE) was a developmental rocket engine designed by TRW under the Space Launch Initiative to reduce the cost of launch services and space flight. Operating on LOX / LH2 the engine had a thrust of 2892 kN, or 650,000 pounds, making it one of the most powerful engines ever constructed.