
Air Launch Testbed for Endoatmospheric Hypersonic TrajectoriesAward last edited on: 11/6/2023
Sponsored Program
SBIRAwarding Agency
DOD : AFTotal Award Amount
$38,153,557Award Phase
2Solicitation Topic Code
AF141-081Principal Investigator
Anthony J PiplicaCompany Information
Generation Orbit Launch Services Inc
3353 West Hospital Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30341
Atlanta, GA 30341
(404) 991-2212 |
info@golauncher.com |
www.generationorbit.com |
Location: Single
Congr. District: 06
County: DeKalb
Congr. District: 06
County: DeKalb
Phase I
Contract Number: FA8650-14-M-2503Start Date: 6/16/2014 Completed: 3/16/2015
Phase I year
2014Phase I Amount
$149,984Benefit:
Anticipated benefits of the proposed effort include: Access to approximately 80% of the customer defined windows for propulsion and controls, boundary layer physics, aeroheating, and rocketback testing Realize improved test times over legacy booster systems, providing minutes of sustained access to high Mach number, high dynamic pressure flight conditions through air launch of a high-propellant mass fraction liquid booster system capable of providing thrust vector control and active throttle control Reduce the number of stages required to access the customer-defined test windows by air launch of a single-stage booster Leverage existing technologies within a novel system design to deliver a new testing capability at low development and recurring cost. Evolvability to larger payloads and commercialization through synergistic development with nanosatellite launch system
Keywords:
hypersonic, flight t
Phase II
Contract Number: FA8650-15-C-2542Start Date: 7/23/2015 Completed: 3/31/2018
Phase II year
2015(last award dollars: 2017)
Phase II Amount
$38,003,573Benefit:
Reduction in flight test cost and schedule for small payloads vs. heritage multi-stage sounding rocket booster systems. The stakeholder survey compeleted during Phase I has established commercial applications for hypersonic flight testing, high altitude and microgravity research, and evolution to nanosatellite launch vehicles. Primary military application of the GOLauncher 1 is low-cost flight testing of small payloads, primarily vehicle subsystems and scaled air breathing propulsion systems, in support of current and future AFRL, DARPA, and MDA hypersonics programs.