The Exploration Company recently concluded a hot fire test campaign for the thrust chamber of its Huracan rocket engine, subjecting the fourth prototype to rigorous testing, including intentional pressure disturbances.
Developed for the Nyx Moon spacecraft, the Huracan engine is designed for missions to lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface; a late-2024 presentation projected an inaugural lunar surface mission in 2029, offering commercial payload capacity at approximately $200,000 per kilogram.
On August 7, the company announced the completion of 11 hot fire tests of the fourth iteration of the Huracan engine’s thrust chamber, a component where fuel and oxidizer combust to generate thrust.
testing at Airborne Engineering in Westcott,England,validated the chamber’s high-frequency combustion stability,ensuring resilience against rapid pressure oscillations,and confirmed the performance of its new GOX/GCH4 ignitor,which experienced “zero missed starts.”
while preparing for lunar missions, The Exploration Company’s immediate focus is Nyx Earth, a cargo transport service to and from low Earth orbit; it plans a third subscale prototype launch following the partial failure of its Mission Possible demonstrator earlier this year.
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