Tag: New Frontier Aerospace
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New Frontier Aerospace tests 3D-printed rocket engine for future flight applications
Flames stream from New Frontier Aerospace’s Mjölnir rocket engine during a hot-fire test. (NFA Photo) Kent, Wash.-based New Frontier Aerospace says it has put its 3D-printed Mjölnir rocket engine through a series of successful hot-fire tests, in preparation for an initial flight test of a hypersonic drone that could take place as early as next year.…
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New Frontier Aerospace and HyBird get in on innovation research grants from NASA
Artwork shows two views of the Bifröst orbital transfer spacecraft. (New Frontier Aerospace Illustration) Two Washington state aerospace companies — Tukwila-based New Frontier Aerospace and Spanaway-based HyBird Space Systems — are among 95 ventures that have won project development funding from NASA through its Small Business Innovation Research program. The Phase II SBIR grants are…
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New Frontier Aerospace aims to zoom from hypersonic flight’s past into its future
New Frontier Aerospace’s chief operating officer, David Gregory (at left), lays his hand on the company’s Mjölnir rocket engine while CEO Bill Bruner strikes what he calls his “Wernher von Braun pose” with a 3D-printed model of the company’s hypersonic rocket ship. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) TUKWILA, Wash. — Thirty years after the first…
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NASA awards millions to boost technology innovations created by small businesses
One grant would support the development of a lunar power distribution system. (NASA Illustration) NASA’s latest round of small-business grants will support aerospace-related technologies ranging from a new kind of spacecraft docking mechanism to a power beaming system suitable for use on the moon. Those are just two of the projects receiving Phase I grants…