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The CRADA provides iRocket with resources, expertise, and site facility support to conduct propulsion, stage, and grasshopper testing at the High Thrust Research Facility at Edwards Air Force Base.
Under the TACFI contract iRocket will perform a full-duration static fire test lasting 120–180 seconds to demonstrate 16,783 kg of thrust using liquid oxygen (LOX) and methane fuel.
Under the CRADA, iRocket plans to conduct propulsion, stage, and potentially grasshopper testing at Test Site 1-56 at the High Thrust Research Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
iRocket signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory West in June 2023 to develop engines and stage technology for its next-generation fully reusable Shockwave launch vehicle.
The CRADA between iRocket and AFRL is expected to create hundreds of new high-paying engineering jobs at the High Thrust Research Facility at Edwards Air Force Base.
Under the Space Force contract, iRocket will perform a full-duration static fire test of its reusable engine for 120 to 180 seconds.
iRocket plans to launch its first vehicle in late 2027.
iRocket plans to launch its first vehicle in late 2027.
In 2022 iRocket closed a seed funding round led by the early-stage venture capital firm Village Global.
iRocket is a New York-based startup founded in 2018 that develops rocket engines and plans to build a small launch vehicle.
iRocket is a New York-based startup founded in 2018 that develops rocket engines and plans to build a small launch vehicle.
iRocket plans to launch all rockets from Launch Complex 48 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
iRocket signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama on 2021-07-27.
iRocket plans to launch all rockets from Launch Complex 48 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.