Hypersonix Launch Systems is an Australian aerospace engineering company specializing in hypersonic technology and scramjet engines. They focus on developing reusable, hydrogen-powered launch vehicles for sustainable and affordable access to space, particularly for small satellite launches. Hypersonix is currently working on a design study with Boeing and has a framework agreement with BOC/Linde Group for green hydrogen supply.
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Nominal Systems is partnering with Hypersonix to develop a concept demonstrator for hypersonic vehicles.
Hypersonix plans to combine flight data from DART AE’s 2024 maiden flight with the digital twin to advance hypersonic technology development.
Hypersonix and Nominal Systems are developing digital twins of both the DART AE flyer and the atmospheric environment in which it operates.
The HASTE mission will deploy a suborbital payload called DART AE manufactured by Australian company Hypersonix.
The Defense Innovation Unit's payload will be a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle built by Hypersonix.
Under the teaming agreement, Kratos has agreed to initially procure up to 20 DART AE systems from Hypersonix once the combined flight system has been completed and demonstrated.
The Kratos/Hypersonix team is focused on providing a first-to-market capability to test and demonstrate hypersonic capabilities for U.S. industry, the U.S. Department of Defense, and national security stakeholders.
Kratos and Hypersonix aim to deliver an affordable, high-cadence, high-availability hypersonic-capable system to the hypersonic customer community using Kratos’ Zeus and other rocket propulsion systems.
Kratos has agreed to initially procure up to 20 DART AE systems from Hypersonix once the combined flight system has been successfully completed and demonstrated.
The first SPARTAN prototype was 3D printed in high-temperature alloy material in December 2021 as part of an Accelerating Commercialisation Australia grant awarded to Hypersonix.
Hypersonix has been awarded U.S. Patent Number US11639700B2 for technology used in the company’s SPARTAN scramjet design.
Hypersonix completed a manufacturing demonstrator using ceramic matrix composite (CMC) material for the SPARTAN engine to withstand the higher temperatures expected at Mach 12.
The first HyCAT prototype contract was awarded to Hypersonix Launch Systems, an Australian company, to develop an airborne testing vehicle capable of operating in a representative environment at speeds above Mach 5 with a maneuverable, non-ballistic flight profile and at least a three-minute flight duration with near-constant flight conditions.
Under the HyCAT initiative, Rocket Lab will explore integration of scramjet-powered payloads including the DART AE vehicle developed by Australian company Hypersonix Launch Systems.
Under the HyCAT initiative, Rocket Lab will explore integration of scramjet-powered payloads including the DART AE vehicle developed by Hypersonix Launch Systems.
Hypersonix plans to fly the DART AE vehicle in early 2024.
DIU selected Hypersonix from 63 respondents to its September 2022 HyCAT solicitation.
Hypersonix Launch Systems was selected to provide a hypersonic vehicle to the United States Defense Innovation Unit for testing under the HyCAT1 program.