Hypersonics are often defined by long timelines, high costs, and exquisite one-offs. The Air Force’s Affordable Rapid Missile Demonstrator (ARMD) is designed to disrupt such challenges and convention as it was structured to achieve first flight in under a year, which it successfully accomplished just a few weeks ago.
Ursa Major’s Draper storable liquid engine is central to that approach, enabling non-cryogenic storage and powered, throttleable flight profiles for both endo- and exo-atmospheric flight applications. Katrina Hornstein, a Stanford and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) educated engineer and program manager for Ursa Major, breaks down the program and Ursa Major’s prime role.
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