House launch car startup Perigee Aerospace introduced on Jan. 13 that it has been chosen as the ultimate performing firm for the “Small Launch Automobile Growth Functionality Assist Program.” This can be a program the place the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) helps non-public corporations’ small launch car know-how growth for six years from 2022 to subsequent yr.
Perigee Aerospace handed the second-stage competitors in this system’s “Excessive-Efficiency Higher Stage Engine Growth for Small Launch Autos” undertaking and can proceed to carry out the third stage. Perigee Aerospace is growing a 3-ton turbopump liquid methane engine to be mounted on the higher stage of a two-stage small launch car.
Perigee Aerospace carried out manufacturing and testing of core elements for the 3-ton turbopump liquid methane engine, particular person element purposeful exams, and partial efficiency exams. The corporate acquired a complete analysis from KASA that it achieved stage-by-stage efficiency targets, together with efficiently finishing the crucial design evaluation (CDR).
Lee Eun-kwang, vp of Perigee Aerospace, stated, “The achievement of being chosen as the ultimate firm was the results of public-private cooperation that mixed our technological capabilities with steady help from KASA and the Korea Aerospace Analysis Institute,” including, “Primarily based on the methane engine design and testing expertise we’ve amassed, we are going to efficiently full the higher stage engine growth with a heavy sense of duty as the ultimate performing firm.”
