Radian Aerospace is an American
aerospace company
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology industry.
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based in
Renton, Washington
Renton is a city in King County, Washington, and an inner-ring suburb of Seattle. Situated southeast of downtown Seattle, Renton straddles the southeast shore of Lake Washington, at the mouth of the Cedar River. As of the 2020 census, the ...
. The company is developing a
single-stage to orbit
A single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) vehicle reaches orbit from the surface of a body using only propellants and fluids and without expending tanks, engines, or other major hardware. The term usually, but not exclusively, refers to reusable vehicles ...
spaceplane
A spaceplane is a vehicle that can fly and glide like an aircraft in Earth's atmosphere and maneuver like a spacecraft in outer space. To do so, spaceplanes must incorporate features of both aircraft and spacecraft. Orbital spaceplanes ten ...
concept called Radian One.
History
Radian was founded in 2016. In January 2022, the company closed a $27.5 million seed round led by venture capital fund Fine Structure Ventures.
Company
Radian is linked with Holder Aerospace, another Renton-based engineering company headed by former astronaut
Livingston Holder and aerospace executive Curtis Gifford.
Design
Radian is developing their rocket engine in Renton and at a testing facility near
Bremerton, Washington
Bremerton is a city in Kitsap County, Washington. The population was 37,729 at the 2010 census and an estimated 41,405 in 2019, making it the largest city on the Kitsap Peninsula. Bremerton is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerto ...
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The
delta-winged plane will be
launched from a rocket-powered sled. Once on orbit, the vehicle can deliver payloads or crew to low earth orbit. Radian One is expected to land on any runway and fly again in 48 hours.
Target markets
The company is focusing on research,
space manufacturing
Space manufacturing is the production of tangible goods beyond Earth. Since most production capabilities are limited to low Earth orbit, the term in-orbit manufacturing is also frequently used.
There are several rationales supporting in-space ...
, terrestrial observation, and rapid global delivery to Earth destinations. Radian penned launch agreements with governments and commercial firms.
See also
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Dream Chaser
Dream Chaser is an American reusable lifting-body spaceplane being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems. Originally intended as a crewed vehicle, the Dream Chaser Space System is set to be produced after the cargo varian ...
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Skylon (spacecraft)
Skylon is a series of concept designs for a reusable single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane by the British company Reaction Engines Limited (Reaction), using SABRE (rocket engine), SABRE, a combined-cycle, Air breathing engines, air-breathing rocket ...
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PD AeroSpace
, often abbreviated PDAS, is a Japanese space tourism company based in Nagoya founded in 2007 by Shuji Ogawa. The "PD" in the company's name stands for " pulse detonation". PDAS is developing a suborbital spaceplane to carry two pilots and six ...
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Relativity Space
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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 AG
Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) is a German 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 launch in l ...
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Vector Launch
Vector Launch, Inc. (formerly Vector Space Systems) is an American space technology company which aims to launch suborbital and orbital payloads. Vector Launch declared bankruptcy in December 2019 and re-emerged in October 2020.
History
The c ...
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Orbex
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Skyrora
Skyrora Ltd is a private space company based in the United Kingdom since 2017.
The company specialises in the design and manufacture of modular disassemblable rocket launch vehicles, specifically for the launch of small satellites, and portable ...
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PLD Space
References
External links
Official Website
Aerospace companies of the United States
Private spaceflight companies
Companies based in Seattle
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