{"id":55455,"date":"2022-05-05T22:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/phantom-space-orders-hundreds-of-rocket-engines-from-ursa-major\/"},"modified":"2022-05-05T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:03:46","slug":"phantom-space-orders-hundreds-of-rocket-engines-from-ursa-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/phantom-space-orders-hundreds-of-rocket-engines-from-ursa-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantom Space Orders Hundreds of Rocket Engines From Ursa Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Phantom Space Corp.<\/strong> on Wednesday said it has ordered more than 200 rocket engines from Ursa Major<\/strong> for its two low-cost launch vehicles with plans to launch the Daytona rocket in 2023, a milestone the company highlighted will add options for access to space at a time when existing launch providers are at capacity.<\/p>\n

The contract is the largest for Ursa Major, which will sell hundreds of its 5,000-pound thrust Hadley engines and a number of its 50,000-pound thrust Ripley engines to Phantom. Ursa Major has several space launch customers but Phantom is the only one it is able to disclose.<\/p>\n

The value of the contract with Ursa Major wasn\u2019t disclosed. Phantom is just two-years old and plans to serve commercial and government customers, including NASA with space launch services. The company recently was named eligible for contracts under NASA\u2019s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) missions.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhantom\u2019s strategy leverages a mature U.S.-only supply chain to deliver the lowest cost U.S.-built small satellite launch vehicle on the market,\u201d Jim Cantrell, Phantom\u2019s CEO, said in a statement. \u201cUrsa Major is a core component of this strategy with flight-ready, reliable, high-performance engines that are configurable for not only our workhorse Daytona and Laguna launch vehicles but also a family of enhanced future launch configurations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phantom, which is based in Tucson, Arizona and led by founding SpaceX<\/strong> member Jim Cantrell, will begin integrated hot-fire testing of the Daytona rocket in June with first launch expected in 2023. The company has received its first Hadley engines.<\/p>\n

Phantom on its website says Daytona can lift 450 kilograms of payload to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) for $4 million a launch. The Laguna rocket, which is larger, is set to launch in 2025 and is advertised at being able to carry 1,200-kilograms of payload to LEO for $8 million per launch.<\/p>\n

The first Daytona variant will used nine Hadley engines for its first stage and one Hadley for the upper stage. In 2024, an upgraded version of Daytona will feature a Ripley engine for the first state and a Hadley engine for the upper state.<\/p>\n

The Laguna will be powered by a combination of Ripley and Hadley engines.<\/p>\n

Ursa Major is based in Berthoud, Colorado. The company\u2019s engines have gone through more than 35,000 seconds of run time, which it says it more than usual before first flight.<\/p>\n

Ursa Major has also provided the Hadley engine to Stratolaunch<\/strong>, which provides aircraft for hypersonic flight-testing.<\/p>\n

This story was first published by Via Satellite sister outlet Defense Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phantom Space Corp. on Wednesday said it has ordered more than 200 rocket engines from Ursa Major for its two low-cost launch vehicles with plans to launch the Daytona rocket in 2023, a milestone the company highlighted will add options for access to space at a time when existing launch providers are at capacity. The contract is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}