Invictus, a new project for the European Space Agency (ESA), is revived by Invictus, the drive system of a bankrupt company for hyperschall planes, which will build up and fly a hydrogen space plane by 2031.
The proposed engine for the aircraft is based on the so-called pre-cooling technology, which has been developed over decades of reaction engines of the British aerospace company that had broken out in November.
Many top engineers of reaction engines found a new home in the British Aerospace and Defense Company Frazer-Nah advice, which is now heading the Invictus consortium. Other members of the group are the US aircraft manufacturer Spirit Aerosystems and the British Cranfield University.
Invictus aims to develop a reusable hyper -sound vehicle that can fly at Mach 5 (6174 km/h) – five times the speed of sound. In contrast to most rockets, this spaceship started horizontally from a runway. The plane would fly over the edge of the room, then return and land like a trading jet. The aircraft is driven by hydrogen and promises lower emissions and longer endurance than conventional radiation fuel engines.
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The first phase of the program, which is financed of € 7 million from the ESA program for general support technology, plans to deliver a concept design by mid-2026. The design revolves around the airplane drive system, which is offset with hydrogen.
The pre -cooler is a heat exchanger that cools down air before it hits the engine. In the case of hyper -sound speeds, air that occurs into the engine can reach thousands of degrees, too hot for traditional turbines. The pre -cooler quickly cools this air with cold hydrogen fuel through tiny pipes.
The system is designed to counteract the extreme heat caused by shock and friction at hyperschalling speeds so that the engines can run safely. Reaction engines' Soil tests Last year, promising results showed when they were integrated into Jet engines.
At the moment INTICTUS is still a concept, but at least theoretically, space stocks could have a cheaper opportunity for access The edge of the room as rockets. Their advantage is to withdraw from a conventional runway and to be reused again and again – just like an airplane, but with more juice.
Sarah Wilkes, managing director at Frazer-Nos, believes that the consortium has a good chance of getting the concept up and running.
“With strong industrial support and deep engineering and aerospace knowledge-Frazer-Nahm colleagues with a decade of drive experience-we have the right ingredients in order to make this ambitious vision of reality,” said Wilkes.
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