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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Fuel-rich staged-combustion architecture leverages Ursa Major’s experience in closed-cycle technology and provides extensibility to future propellant derivatives.
Ursa Major has built and tested more than 50 staged-combustion rocket engines to date and will deliver 24 of them by year’s end.
Ursa Major’s other engines include Hadley, a 5,000-pound-thrust oxygen-rich staged-combustion engine, and Ripley, a 50,000-pound-thrust engine.
Ursa Major designs, tests, and manufactures its engines from a facility in Berthoud, Colorado using 3D printing, analysis and simulation tools, and proprietary alloys.
Arroway is a 200,000-pound-thrust liquid oxygen and methane staged-combustion engine developed by Ursa Major.
Phantom Space Corporation has an agreement to purchase more than 200 rocket engines from Ursa Major.
Under the agreement, Ursa Major will supply numerous Ripley engines for planned upgrades to Phantom Space’s Daytona vehicle.
Phantom Space plans to use Ursa Major Hadley engines to enable the Daytona rocket’s orbital launch in 2023.
Stratolaunch is working with Ursa Major Technologies in qualification testing of the engine that will propel TA-1.
Ursa Major has received several research-and-development contracts from commercial customers and the U.S. government through 2022.
Ursa Major closed an $85,000,000 Series C fundraising round on 2021-12-07.
Ursa Major has raised $40,000,000 in private funds to fund its operations and research.
Ursa Major is developing a 35,000-pound-thrust liquid oxygen and kerosene engine named Ripley.
Ursa Major Technologies is working with Generation Orbit Launch Services to develop the X-60A hypersonic flight research vehicle.
Ursa Major Technologies has raised more than $40,000,000 in private funding.
ABL Space Systems moved engine production in-house after originally planning to purchase engines from Ursa Major Technologies.
Ursa Major anticipates completing the 35,000-pound-thrust Ripley engine in 2020.
Atlanta-based Generation Orbit plans to use Ursa Major’s Hadley engine on its air-launched GOLauncher-1 vehicle.
Ursa Major designed its Hadley engine using an oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle.
Ursa Major tests its engines at a facility an hour north of Denver that once belonged to Ball Aerospace.