{"id":147467,"date":"2022-10-03T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/firehawks-rocket-engines-and-3d-printed-fuel-hit-testing-milestones-ahead-of-first-launch"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:23:16","slug":"firehawks-rocket-engines-and-3d-printed-fuel-hit-testing-milestones-ahead-of-first-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/firehawks-rocket-engines-and-3d-printed-fuel-hit-testing-milestones-ahead-of-first-launch","title":{"rendered":"Firehawk\u2019s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/firehawks-rocket-engines-and-3d-printed-fuel-hit-testing-milestones-ahead-of-first-launch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although today\u2019s rocket engines are advanced and powerful, they tend to rely on traditional \u2014 and naturally volatile \u2014 fuels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firehawkaerospace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Firehawk Aerospace<\/a> has a safer and more stable new solid fuel, new engines, and millions in new funding to take it through the next round of tests to its first in-atmosphere demonstration launch.<\/p>\n<p>Firehawk appeared on the scene <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/09\/14\/firehawk-aerospace-aims-to-revolutionize-rocketry-with-safe-cost-effective-hybrid-engines\/\">two years ago<\/a> with a fresh take on hybrid engines; the breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix.<\/p>\n<p>The structured, solid fuel grain is more stable and easier to transport than other fuels, and burns in a very predictable way. The company designed engines around this concept and tested them at smaller scales, though they have also been working on the kind of engine you might actually use if you were going to space. But the company has said that one of the strengths of the system is its adaptability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although today\u2019s rocket engines are advanced and powerful, they tend to rely on traditional \u2014 and naturally volatile \u2014 fuels. Firehawk Aerospace has a safer and more stable new solid fuel, new engines, and millions in new funding to take it through the next round of tests to its first in-atmosphere demonstration launch. Firehawk appeared [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}