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<\/strong>Inversion<\/strong>, founded in 2021 to build re-entry vehicles to deliver cargo anywhere on Earth in under one hour, announced that Ray<\/strong>, the company\u2019s technology test platform, will be launching on <\/strong>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 as part of the Transporter-12 Rideshare mission, no earlier than October 2024. The purpose of Ray\u2019s mission for Inversion is to test key technologies for the yet-to-be-announced next-generation vehicle that Inversion is developing.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have developed Ray at a record low cost, while simultaneously making investments into our next-gen vehicle. Ray\u2019s first mission is a major step on the path to making returning from space an everyday occurrence. This ethos of cost efficiency is core to accomplishing this mission,\u201d said Justin Fiaschetti<\/strong>, Co-Founder and CEO of Inversion.<\/p>\n Once in space, Ray will remain in orbit while the Inversion team conducts functional checkout. Upon completion, Ray will be commanded to conduct its de-orbit burn using Inversion\u2019s 8 lbf thrust bipropellant rocket engine, named CE-1. Ray will then re-enter the Earth\u2019s atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, 17800 mph. Ray will deploy its parachute, which Inversion has developed from scratch, to slow to a gentle 12.5 ft\/s touchdown velocity and splash down off the coast of California.<\/p>\n \u201cWe decided early on that Ray would be used to test technology for our next-gen vehicle, which is why we\u2019ve developed nearly every one of Ray\u2019s subsystems in-house for both the capsule and the service module. This sets up Inversion to develop our future vehicles faster, ultimately speeding up our vision of space becoming a transportation layer,\u201d said Austin Briggs<\/strong>, Co-Founder and CTO of Inversion.<\/p>\n Inversion\u2019s mission is to make space the fourth transportation domain alongside land, air, and sea. It is the only domain that does not interface with sovereign borders, giving unheard-of advantages to those who embrace it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inversion, founded in 2021 to build re-entry vehicles to deliver cargo anywhere on Earth in under one hour, announced that Ray, the company\u2019s technology test platform, will be launching on SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 as part of the Transporter-12 Rideshare mission, no earlier than October 2024. The purpose of Ray\u2019s mission for Inversion is to test […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[26,25,54,20],"class_list":["post-7019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-launch-vehicle-platforms","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019"}],"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=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}