HyImpulse is a German private space launch enterprise headquartered in Neuenstadt am Kocher and developing a small launch vehicle designed around hybrid-propellant rockets. The company is a DLR spinoff founded in 2018 out of the chemical propulsion center of the German space agency's Lampoldshausen facility.[1] HyImpulse is bankrolled by Rudolf Schwarz, chairman of German technology company IABG.[2]
The company is developing a three-stage hybrid rocket designed to transport to LEO satellites of up to 500 kg named SL1.[3] The company is also developing the suborbital SR75 launch vehicle. SR75 is 12-metre-long and 2.5-tonne mass single-stage rocket which is planned to transport small payloads weighing up to 250 kg to an altitude of around 250 km. This smaller rocket will serve both as the company's first commercial service and as a technology demonstrator for SL1.[4]
On 28 July 2023, the United Kingdom's UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) granted HyImpulse permission to launch its SR75 rocket for the first time from SaxaVord Spaceport in Scotland between 1 December 2023 and 30 November 2024.[4] Although SaxaVord is yet to receive its spaceport licence, the CAA has confirmed that the spaceport will not need the licence to host the suborbital SR75 flight due to the 47-kilometre max altitude being targeted and the size of the rocket's engine.[5] However, in November 2023 it was announced that the SR75 maiden flight will take place in March 2024 from the Koonibba Test Range in Australia, operated by Southern Launch.[6] On 3 May 2024, the SR75 launched on its maiden flight (mission titled "Light this Candle"; expected apogee: 200 km (120 mi)) from the Koonibba Test Range, the ascent was successful.[7][8]
The hybrid rocket engine uses a paraffin-based fuel and liquid oxygen.[9] On 4 September HyImpulse completed its ninth hot fire test campaign. With the successful completion of the testing, HyImpulse qualified its HyPLOX-75 hybrid rocket motor for flight.[10] The motor will be used aboard the SR75 and SL1 first and second stages.
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^ abParsonson, Andrew (17 August 2023). "HyImpulse to Debut SR75 Rocket No Earlier than December 1". European Spaceflight. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
^Parsonson, Andrew (29 August 2023). "SaxaVord Does Not Need Spaceport Licence to Launch HyImpulse Mission". European Spaceflight. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
^"Suborbital Rocket Launch Site and Launch Window confirmed" (PDF). HyImpulse (Press release). 14 November 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
^HyImpulse Launch - SR75 "Light this candle!". Retrieved 2024-05-03 – via The Space Down Under - YouTube.
^"HyImpulse: German space company successfully launches first commercially viable launch vehicle" (PDF). HyImpulse (Press release). 3 May 2024. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
^"HyImpulse runs successful engine tests for hybrid rocket in Shetland". 25 May 2021.
^Parsonson, Andrew (7 September 2023). "HyImpulse Qualifies Hybrid Rocket Motor for Flight". European Spaceflight. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
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