Company:Green Launch
Green Launch is an American aerospace company developing alternative space launch technologies based on ground-based "impulse launchers" designed to reduce the cost of sending payloads into orbit. The company focuses on replacing the first stage of traditional rockets with hydrogen-powered light-gas launch systems that accelerate payloads from the ground before a secondary propulsion stage places them into orbit.[1][2][3][4]
History
Green Launch targets small, acceleration-tolerant payloads such as CubeSats and aims to provide low-cost and rapid launch services, including suborbital missions for hypersonic testing and atmospheric research.[5][1] The concept builds on technologies previously developed in NASA and U.S. Air Force testing facilities over several decades.[5]
In December 2021, the company conducted a test of a vertical hydrogen light-gas launcher at Yuma Proving Ground, accelerating a projectile to speeds exceeding Mach 3 as a proof of concept for future space launch applications.[6]
Green Launch plans to scale this technology toward reaching the Karman line and eventually enabling orbital delivery of small payloads.[7][8]
See also
- Space gun
- Light-gas gun
- Project Babylon
- Project HARP
- Quicklaunch
- Super High Altitude Research Project
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Green Launch". https://newspacetracker.com/company/green-launch/.
- ↑ "Hypersonic Launch Featuring Propellant Capture with Suppressed Acoustic and Heat Signature - Create the Future". https://contest.techbriefs.com/2025/entries/aerospace-and-defense/13377-0505-152518-hypersonic-launch-featuring-propellant-capture-with-suppressed-acoustic-and-heat-signature.
- ↑ "Green Launch запустит спутники на орбиту при помощи гиперзвуковой пушки". https://hightech.fm/2022/04/16/green-launch.
- ↑ Blain, Loz (April 14, 2022). "Hypersonic space cannon promises 10 minutes from ground to orbit". https://newatlas.com/space/greenlaunch-space-cannon-gas-launch/.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Home - Green Launch". https://greenlaunch.space/.
- ↑ "U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground helps private industry customer reach new heights". February 1, 2022. https://www.army.mil/article/253661/u_s_army_yuma_proving_ground_helps_private_industry_customer_reach_new_heights.
- ↑ "Phases - Green Launch". November 24, 2016. https://greenlaunch.space/phases/.
- ↑ https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/tenthmars2024/pdf/3013.pdf
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