Venus Aerospace’s supersonic flight check drone efficiently accomplished its inaugural flight on Feb 24, 2024. The eight foot, 300lb drone was dropped at an altitude of 12,000 ft and accelerated to a prime velocity of Mach 0.9, flying for 10 miles. It was powered by a hydrogen peroxide monopropellant engine at 80% thrust with a view to not exceed Mach 1. The check efficiently demonstrated flight controls, stability, one leg of the final word Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) propulsion system, telemetry, floor operations, and air launch. “Utilizing an air-launched platform and a rocket-with-wing configuration permits us to cheaply and rapidly get to the minimal viable check of our RDRE as a hypersonic engine. The group executed with professionalism and has a wealth of information to anchor and tweak for the subsequent flight,” says CTO & Co-Founder Andrew Duggleby.
“That is the way you do exhausting issues: one chew at a time. Up subsequent is RDRE flight, and finally hypersonic flight, proving that the RDRE is the engine that unlocks the hypersonic economic system,” says CEO & Co-Founder Sarah “Sassie” Duggleby.
About Venus Aerospace
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Venus Aerospace is a startup aerospace firm targeted on engineering the way forward for hypersonic flight. An knowledgeable group of PhD’s, rocket scientists, and engineers taking up the largest challenges in aerospace at Mach 9 velocity, Venus is making one-hour world transport attainable to attach the world and make it safer.
