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Under a USAF license to E'Prime Aerospace. Both their Eagle-S launch vehicle and "cold launch" canister will use MX derived tech. Launches to be at the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS).
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E'Prime Aerospace Selects Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
E'Prime Aerospace Corporation has selected the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) as E'Prime's Launch site for the Canister Launch Program using unique and proprietary technology derived from the Peacekeeper Missile System.
E’Prime Aerospace will use “cold launch†and “canister†technologies which enable light to medium lift single core vehicles launching from a launch tube that propels the rocket approximately 200 feet into the air before the first stage is ignited. This method, according to the company, increases the payload capacity by about 10 percent. It also prevents costly refurbishment to the launch facility itself.
"We look forward to working with E'Prime Aerospace during the development and demonstration of your (E'Prime's) space launch vehicle and support systems. We will provide our technical expertise and technologies in the areas of launch site facilities and operations and launch range operations to E'Prime's development effort...," says Dr. Billie Reed, Executive Director of the Virginia spaceport authority.
The launch vehicles themselves use technology derived from the Peacekeeper (MX missile) program through a commercialization agreement the company has with the U.S. Air Force within which E’Prime developed a modular, commercial launch program using that technology for satellite insertion. Their Eagle-S Series Launch Vehicles will operate with high-launch reliability as experienced by the Peacekeeper Program (51 vehicle launches with no failures!) E’Prime also secured the only rapidly deployable launch systems worldwide with the exclusive rights to use steam gas generator technology from the Peacekeeper Program.
"The MARS launch site is conveniently situated to our corporate office now located in [Falls Church, Virginia]. The selection of a launch site is a major step forward and application for a launch license establishes E'Prime's intentions with the FAA and our customers, both commercial and government," stated E'Prime President, James D Oldham.
At a height of 61 meters (200 feet), the vehicle’s engines would ignite. The smallest vehicle, the Eaglet, would launch 580 kilograms (1,280 pounds) into LEO, while a somewhat larger version, the Eagle, would put
1,360 kilograms (3,000 pounds) into LEO. Both would use solid-propellant lower stages and a liquid-propellant upper stage. E’Prime has also proposed larger vehicles, designated S-1 through S-7, that would be able to place considerably larger payloads into LEO and add a geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) capability.
E'Prime Aerospace Corporation has selected the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) as E'Prime's Launch site for the Canister Launch Program using unique and proprietary technology derived from the Peacekeeper Missile System.
E’Prime Aerospace will use “cold launch†and “canister†technologies which enable light to medium lift single core vehicles launching from a launch tube that propels the rocket approximately 200 feet into the air before the first stage is ignited. This method, according to the company, increases the payload capacity by about 10 percent. It also prevents costly refurbishment to the launch facility itself.
"We look forward to working with E'Prime Aerospace during the development and demonstration of your (E'Prime's) space launch vehicle and support systems. We will provide our technical expertise and technologies in the areas of launch site facilities and operations and launch range operations to E'Prime's development effort...," says Dr. Billie Reed, Executive Director of the Virginia spaceport authority.
The launch vehicles themselves use technology derived from the Peacekeeper (MX missile) program through a commercialization agreement the company has with the U.S. Air Force within which E’Prime developed a modular, commercial launch program using that technology for satellite insertion. Their Eagle-S Series Launch Vehicles will operate with high-launch reliability as experienced by the Peacekeeper Program (51 vehicle launches with no failures!) E’Prime also secured the only rapidly deployable launch systems worldwide with the exclusive rights to use steam gas generator technology from the Peacekeeper Program.
"The MARS launch site is conveniently situated to our corporate office now located in [Falls Church, Virginia]. The selection of a launch site is a major step forward and application for a launch license establishes E'Prime's intentions with the FAA and our customers, both commercial and government," stated E'Prime President, James D Oldham.
At a height of 61 meters (200 feet), the vehicle’s engines would ignite. The smallest vehicle, the Eaglet, would launch 580 kilograms (1,280 pounds) into LEO, while a somewhat larger version, the Eagle, would put
1,360 kilograms (3,000 pounds) into LEO. Both would use solid-propellant lower stages and a liquid-propellant upper stage. E’Prime has also proposed larger vehicles, designated S-1 through S-7, that would be able to place considerably larger payloads into LEO and add a geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) capability.