HyImpulse is a German private
space launch
Space launch is the earliest part of a flight that reaches space. Space launch involves liftoff, when a rocket or other space launch vehicle leaves the ground, floating ship or midair aircraft at the start of a flight. Liftoff is of two main t ...
enterprise headquartered in
Neuenstadt am Kocher
Neuenstadt, usually known as Neuenstadt am Kocher (; and until as late as 1800 also known as Neuenstadt an der großen Linde) is a town in Baden-Württemberg in south-western Germany with 9,600 inhabitants. It consists of Neuenstadt, the village ...
and developing a small launch vehicle designed around
hybrid-propellant rocket
A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor that uses rocket propellants in two different phases: one solid and the other either gas or liquid. The hybrid rocket concept can be traced back to the early 1930s.
Hybrid rockets avoi ...
s. The company is a
DLR spinoff founded in 2018 out of the chemical propulsion center of the German space agency's Lampoldshausen facility. HyImpulse is bankrolled by Rudolf Schwarz, chairman of German technology company
IABG
IABG (Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH) is a German analysis and test engineering company based in Taufkirchen near Munich.
History
The company was founded in 1961 on the initiative of the federal government as a central analysis and ...
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The company is developing a three-stage hybrid rocket designed to transport to LEO satellites of up to 500 kg named SL1.
The hybrid rocket engine uses a paraffin-based fuel and liquid oxygen.
See also
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Isar Aerospace
Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company based in Munich, Germany. The company was founded in 2018. The company is named after the river that flows through Munich.
Development
The company is developing Spectrum, a two-stage, liquid-fueled ...
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Rocket Factory Augsburg
Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) is a German New space, New Space start-up located in Augsburg. It was founded in 2018 with the mission to build rockets just like cars. Its multistage rocket, , is currently under development and scheduled to l ...
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PLD Space
Payload Aerospace S.L. (PLD Space) is a Spanish company developing two partially-reusable launch vehicles called Miura 1 and Miura 5.
Miura 1 is designed as a sounding rocket for sub-orbital flights to perform research or technology development i ...
References
External links
Official Website
Aerospace companies of Germany
Space launch vehicles of Germany
Private spaceflight companies
Commercial spaceflight
Commercial launch service providers
German companies established in 2018
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