World’s biggest drone will send satellites into residence on a rocket
Satellite delivery isn’t just cutting-edge tech these days. Lately it feels like SpaceX is pursuits that every week. Liftoff usually starts with a ground-based rocket, which is expensive and time-consuming to launch. Aevum believes its bulky Ravn X drone can do it better, for less money.
At 80 feet long and 18 feet tall, the Ravn X is the world’s biggest drone, says Aevum. Driven by Aevum’s proprietary software, the drone would fly itself to a specified altitude, where it would launch a rocket to deliver a payload of minute satellites to low Earth orbit. Click the video above for more on the delivery process.
Aevum CEO Jay Skylus in be in the lead of the Ravn X.
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The originate system is 70% reusable, Aevum said. CEO Jay Skylus hopes to get that discontinuance to 100%.
“The first stage can just land, throw spanking rocket on, and it can take off again, just like an airliner would at the gate.” Skylus told CNET. Test escapes are expected to begin this year.
Aevum said it has already secured more than $1 billion in originate contracts. That includes a contract with the US Space Force to vow 360 satellites to low Earth orbit. Skylus said that could happened as soon as this year.
