[Via Satellite 08-05-2015] Generation Orbit Launch Services <\/b>(GO) received a Phase 2 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory, Aerospace Systems Directorate <\/b>(AFRL\/RQ) for continued development of GOLauncher 1, a single-stage air launched liquid rocket vehicle.<\/p>\n
Through the contract, GO will work with partners Calspan Corporation<\/b>, Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems <\/b>and Ventions <\/b>on the preliminary design of GOLauncher 1, as well as design, build, and test of an integrated, hardware-in-the-loop engineering development unit for the rocket vehicle.<\/p>\n
GOLauncher 1 is designed to fly suppressed trajectories for hypersonic flight research applications. The development of this vehicle feeds directly into GOLauncher 2, a larger launch vehicle designed to carry small satellites to Low Earth Orbit (LEO).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next phase of this program will allow us to not only continue design work on the vehicle, but also bring hardware manufacturing and software development together in the product development cycle much earlier than is typically done in complex aerospace systems,\u201d said A.J. Piplica, principal investigator on the effort. \u201cThrough this early integration and testing of hardware and software, we\u2019ll be able to validate the assumptions we\u2019ve made throughout the conceptual design process, demonstrating the performance, cost, and reliability of the vehicle well before flight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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