Ursa Major Technologies is an American aerospace company and independent rocket propulsion provider specializing in the design, testing, and manufacturing of rocket engines for space launch and hypersonic applications. They offer high-performance liquid rocket engines like the Hadley, Ripley, Draper and Arroway, as well as solid rocket motors. Ursa Major serves commercial space enterprises, defense contractors, and the U.S. government, with customers including Phantom Space, Stratolaunch, and RTX's Raytheon. Key activities include advanced manufacturing techniques like 3D printing to optimize production and reduce costs.
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The engines developed by Ursa Major are designed to be highly efficient and reliable, suitable for applications requiring high performance and safety.
Ursa Major will build a dedicated test stand for the Draper engine and plans to hotfire the engine within 12 months.
Under the U.S. Air Force Tactical Funding Increase program last August, Ursa Major and AFRL had a contract to qualify the 5,000-pound-thrust oxygen-rich staged-combustion Hadley rocket engine for future Department of Defense missions.
Ursa Major designs, tests, and manufactures its engines at a facility in Berthoud, Colorado using analysis and simulation, 3D printing, and proprietary alloys.
Ursa Major is confident that its engines will perform within mission specifications for the Vector Launch national security mission.
Ursa Major is committed to delivering high-quality propulsion systems through acceptance testing.
Under the AFRL contract, Ursa Major will further develop its 200,000-pound-thrust Arroway engine for space launch.
Ursa Major completed acceptance testing of three Hadley 1st Stage engines for Vector Launch’s upcoming National Security Mission.
Vector Launch's upcoming national security mission will rely on Ursa Major’s engines.
Under the AFRL contract, Ursa Major will build and test a prototype of its Draper engine for hypersonics.
Ursa Major plans to build a dedicated test stand for the Draper engine and to hotfire the engine within 12 months.
Ursa Major introduced the Arroway engine in August 2022 with the goal of supporting next-generation heavy launch.
Ursa Major won a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract on 2023-05-23 to support the development of two of the company’s rocket engines.
Under the Air Force Research Laboratory contract, Ursa Major will build and test a prototype of its Draper engine for hypersonics and will further develop its 200,000-pound-thrust Arroway engine for space launch.
Ursa Major’s contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory is an eight-figure agreement and is larger than a $3,600,000 Air Force contract the company received last year for development of its Hadley engine for small launch vehicles.
Ursa Major won a U.S. Air Force $3,600,000 contract last year to support development and flight-qualification of the Hadley engine.
The vacuum variant of Ursa Major’s Hadley engine provides 2,948 kg of thrust.
Astra selected Ursa Major’s Hadley liquid engine to power the upper stage of its Rocket 4 launch vehicle.
Ursa Major tests its engines at a facility in Berthoud, Colorado that houses engine design, manufacturing, and testing in one place.
Vector Launch was awarded a U.S. national security contract that Ursa Major will support with propulsion supply.