Category: Hypersonix Launch Systems

September 12, 2024

Hypersonic vehicles set to blast off from SA spaceports

Australian aerospace startup Hypersonix Launch Systems will launch and return hypersonic vehicles from a new suborbital flight test service to be set up at Southern Launch spaceports as early as next year. The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday to work on a turnkey hypersonic testbed they say will cement the state…

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October 9, 2023

Hypersonix and the scramjet making (shock) waves

Earlier this year, a homegrown Australian company beat out more than 60 global competitors to win a major US government contract. Hypersonix Launch Systems was selected for the Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities program, run by the Defence Innovation Unit that forms part of the US Department of Defense. As part of the contract,…

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March 17, 2023

Hypersonix selected by key US defence accelerator

Australian aerospace startup Hypersonix Launch Systems has been drafted into the US Defense Innovation Unit’s accelerator program, having been selected to provide hypersonic vehicles for testing. The Defense Innovation Unit is a US Department of Defense organisation charged with accelerating the adoption of commercial and dual-use technologies where it can solve operational challenges at speed…

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May 4, 2022

Hypersonix’ test success for prototype scramjet engine and fuel

Hypersonix Launch Systems has announced successfully completed benchtop testing of an additively manufactured prototype scramjet engine and its hydrogen fuel system. Announcing the completed tests – conducted at Bulwer Island, near Brisbane airport, on test rigs – Hypersonix said that it had wrapped up all activities supported by a federal Accelerating Commercialisation grant on time…

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November 29, 2021

Finalist: Hypersonix, scramjets and greener, faster travel

At the local runway, a modestly sized craft sits like a paper plane, neatly folded on its launch site, awaiting its daily sequence. It glints in the sun as a ground operator triggers an unmanned lift-off, powered by a reusable rocket that accelerates the vehicle past the sound barrier and onto to Mach 5. An…

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October 28, 2021

Hypersonix world-first 3D printed scramjet engine nears

Hydrogen-powered aerospace company Hypersonix Launch Systems has announced that it has placed an order with Amiga Engineering for a claimed world-first: a 3D printed, fixed-geometry scramjet engine. According to Hypersonix, it is on track to deliver a flight-ready version of its Spartan scramjet engine and fuel system in March 2022, following shock tunnel testing and…

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October 24, 2021

CSIRO spin-out Quasar is building world-leading satellite tech

One of the great joys of scientific innovation is looking at an existing technology and envisioning a completely novel application outside its original purpose. Quasar Satellite Technologies is a rather elegant example of just that. The new Australian startup is reimagining the application of phased array feeds, originally designed for astronomy and space observation, to…

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October 6, 2021

Hypersonix Launch Systems to develop reusable space vehicle

Aerospace engineering company Hypersonix Launch Systems has teamed up with the University of Southern Queensland to create a re-usable hypersonic UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) to be named Delta Velos. The launch vehicle is to be a technology demonstrator for key aspects of a re-usable small satellite launch system to support Hypersonix first launch due in…

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October 5, 2021

InnovationAus 2021 Awards: Energy and Renewables finalists

With every state and territory setting net zero emissions targets and billions of investment dollars flooding in, green technology and renewable energy is poised to disrupt almost every sector in Australia, saving consumers and the environment. There are now credible electric vehicle policies planned for Australia’s two most populous states and the Australian Capital Territory…

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