SBIR/STTR Research Award
HyperJet Feasibility: Leading Edge Heat Pipe
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- VENUS AEROSPACE CORP.
- Proposal award date
- 2021-02-05
- Contract end date
- 2021-05-08
- UEI
- L7E4L8YNKMH6
- Solicitation number
- X20.C
- Topic code
- AF20C-TCSO1
Research abstract
Venus Aerospace is developing a boost-glide hyperjet that takes off from an airport (jet engines), boosts to Mach 15 and 150kft (rocket engines), and then glides across the world in 1 hour; ready to fly again in 2 hours. Three key technologies enable this: the rotating detonation rocket engine, a stable multi-mach waverider airframe, and leading edge cooling. In this STTR Phase I, the leading edge cooling via heat pipe is examined, by 1) refining the flight path external heating model and the thermal soak of the vehicle, and 2) modeling the heat pipe effectiveness, with the goal of keeping the leading edge below 1500 F and enabling a supernickel leading edge (no ceramics).
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Venus Aerospace Rotating Detonation Nozzle Development
- Detonation Engine Powered Rocket Based Combined Cycle Development
- Leading Edge Cooling for Hypersonic Vehicles
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Research funding history
4 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2021–2024). Reported award amounts total $2,201,443. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration