rocket engine testing

Astron Systems is an award winning UK company leading the development of small-lift class 100% reusable rockets for flexible, fast, affordable, and net-zero carbon capable orbital launch and return of small payloads. Their rocket, Aurora, offers rapid access both to and from orbit, with the cost of operating a small rocket launch reduced 25x, enabled by long lifetime engines and upper stage reuse for the first time in a small-lift class rocket.

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Frontier Astronautics is a focused aerospace company dedicated to developing new space technologies, specializing in helping small or large aerospace companies with innovative solutions. Its primary focus is building small launch vehicle and satellite engines, specializing in hydrogen peroxide propulsion, and it operates from a decommissioned Atlas-E missile silo in rural Wyoming with rocket engine testing facilities.

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Interorbital Systems (IOS) is a rocket, satellite, and spacecraft manufacturing company and launch-service provider founded in 1996 by Roderick and Randa Milliron. Its facilities at the Mojave Air and Spaceport include a 6,000-sq ft manufacturing and engineering building and two rocket engine test sites. The company is developing two orbital launch vehicles, the NEPTUNE_100 and the TRITON_4500, to launch payloads from 100 kg to 4,500 kg into a 500-km polar orbit.

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Inversion builds advanced reentry vehicles and space-based delivery systems, turning space into a global logistics network. Its Arc vehicle is an autonomous, reusable, low-cost space-based delivery vehicle designed to deploy anywhere on Earth in under an hour. The company also developed Ray, its first fully in-house spacecraft and reentry capsule. Founded in 2021, Inversion is a 60-person team with a 55,000-square-foot facility in Los Angeles and a test site in the Mojave Desert.

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