🚀🎉 Major #breakthrough for our student team!
For the 1st time, we've hit a minute-long burn with our regeneratively cooled #engine, an outstanding achievement among student teams & a crucial step for our #rocket#hopper aiming for 75-sec flights.
I've kept a pretty low (online) profile of what I'm building, but word's getting out.
My company Astro Mechanica has invented a new kind of jet engine. Unlike any existing engine, it's efficient at every speed. Because it's efficient at every speed, we can use it in a new way: as the first stage of an orbital launch vehicle.
The resulting platform will get payloads to orbit dramatically cheaper than all-rocket systems - among many possible applications.
The key insight is to use electric motors to drive a compressor. That way we can make it spin at any speed, allowing it to "adapt" to it's airspeed and combustion cycle.
One of the coolest parts: the video below is of a demonstrator my team and I built last year. We already have a new engine with 10x the thrust that will be complete next month.
Acabo de publicar el algoritmo cuántico que he diseñado estos últimos meses 🎉😄
https://t.co/AVBhp4ELFe
Es un nuevo método para calcular el valor esperado de un Hamiltoniano dado. Espero que os guste!