Hartwig ELLERBROCK’s Post [Video]

Outstanding technical success for The Exploration Company! This week, we successfully concluded the 2nd test campaign of our reusable orbital bio-methane & oxygen thrust chamber.   With the cooperation and support of German Aerospace Center (DLR), Centre National d'Études Spatiales and European Space Agency - ESA, we explored the flight domains and pushed the limits of our hardware. Through a series of eight tests and a total burn time of 560 seconds, we achieved nominal conditions while throttling the engine from 33% to 110% of its nominal operating point. These tests were vital in understanding the performance of our cryogenic thrust chamber under various conditions, paving the way for future mission profiles of Nyx Moon. These are great results achieved in 1 year and 2 months, starting from zero and ending with these tests. This engine will serve the lunar version of our vehicle which will go to lunar stations and lunar surface, and will fly back to Earth.    Special thanks to Wolfgang Armbruster, Justin Hardi, Michael Börner, Alexander Bee, Gerd Bruemmer and Fritz Wildner at German Aerospace Center (DLR).   Special thanks to Jean-marc ASTORG, bruno vieille, Jerome Dehouve, Marie THERON and Lilan Prevost at Centre National d'Études Spatiales.   Special thanks to Bernardo Patti, Stefano Matteini, Giorgio Magistrati, MANSOURI Jamila and Mark Ford at European Space Agency - ESA.   And congratulations to The Exploration Company's team with special thanks to Sebastien Reichstadt, Sonia Magniant, Pierre Vinet, Tomás Cruz, Romain MABBOUX, Matteo Crachi, Julian Matt, Alicia Dufresne, Maximilian Strixner, Artjom L. and Niklas Mechtersheimer. And by alphabetical order, special thanks to and congratulations for the great support of your institutions: Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla, Anke Pagels-Kerp, Philippe Baptiste, Josef Aschbacher, Walther Pelzer.