Australia’s Hypersonix Launch Systems plans to revolutionise both defence and civilian aircraft industries
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Australia's Hypersonix Launch Systems is using additive engineering 3D printing and a hydrogen-fueled SPARTAN Scramjet engine to produce an aircraft capable of flying up to Mach 7 and with a range of 1000 kilometers.
In March 2023 the company was awarded a deal to provide a test-bed vehicle to the United States Defence Innovation Unit for testing and evaluation as the next generation of defence and aircraft technologies comes closer to becoming a reality.
And in November, the Brisbane-based company took home both the National and the SME Innovation Awards at Indo Pacific
Hypersonix is an Australian aerospace engineer, design and build company and we're specialised on scramjet engines and hypersonic vehicles. So our innovation is the SPARTAN scramjet engine. It's hydrogen powered and self-igniting. It also is fixed geometry, which means it has no moving parts and it can accelerate.
Scramjet engines are oxygen breathing hence they fly through the atmosphere and they don't have to carry oxygen like rockets do. The SPARTAN powers All of our vehicles. And the first one is DART AE, which I brought with me today. DART AE is powered by one SPARTAN scramjet engine and we will launch DART AE next year.
Hypersonix Launch Systems is changing the way we fly for good. It's traveling faster, further, more efficiently, and in a green way. Our first applications are in the defence sector, but longer term, as a deep tech company, we can see it having the same impact as jet engines have. That will mean faster travel, more efficient air freight.
Being able to reach Sydney to London in two and a half hours. That will drive a whole global economic efficiency. So these are early days, but great early days and a great way that Australia can contribute to the future efficiency of the planet.
Other new products that we're working on at the moment is VISR, which is a high speed, long range, ISR product that is useful in terms of reconnaissance and long range influence in the region.
Hypersonix contract with the Defence Innovation Unit permits the US agency to “transition” successful prototype projects into follow-on “production contracts” under simplified rules. The DART AE will take to the skies in 2024.
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