We fired our engine again!
Elysium 1 achieved a 4 second burn and produced 512 pounds of thrust! This is our largest sustained burn with a 1.8x improvement in thrust from our first fire.
Our test met all of our success criteria and marks the end of Elysium's hot fire campaign.
RED is GRINDING
Elysium 2's stand, diverter, and tank are coming along, we're conducting cryo tests prepping for our LOX engine, and much more!
Thank you to our sponsors who's contributions are pushing us to step into test sooner.
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RED Newsletter Thread:
1 year ago TAMU RED made history: successfully firing Texas A&M University’s first liquid bipropellant rocket engine, Elysium.
Since that milestone, the team hasn’t slowed down for a moment. Over the past year, we’ve:
TAMU RED has been hard at work this semester, and here's a taste:
Check out our newsletter where we describe the Elysium 1.1 hot fire campaign and our development of Elysium 2!
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We fired our engine again!
Elysium 1 achieved a 4 second burn and produced 512 pounds of thrust! This is our largest sustained burn with a 1.8x improvement in thrust from our first fire.
Our test met all of our success criteria and marks the end of Elysium's hot fire campaign.
While our ambitions are high, our funds are low.
If you want to help support A&M build its first liquid vehicle, click on the link below.
We need roughly 10k to make it happen.
All donations go directly towards purchasing hardware, and any amount helps!
While our ambitions are high, our funds are low.
If you want to help support A&M build its first liquid vehicle, click on the link below. We need roughly 10k to make it happen.
All donations go directly towards purchasing hardware, and any amount helps!
Many. Whenever we launch a service, there are lots of poorly defined requirements on our end, as well as a lot of “creativity” from the customer side. Day 2 of CNC service we had like 80% demand from things that were barely 3Dprintable, let alone machinable.
The faster you can see what the public is doing, the faster you can adjust your service to match…or at least set expectation.