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CO2 emissions dangerously impact the equilibrium of our home planet. When the problem becomes significant, everybody wants to help their children to have a brighter future.
A team of rocket scientists worked for decades with agencies, such as NASA, as well as space ventures and research laboratories, to handle the problem of CO2 emissions during a space launch. They came to a solution that looked like a sci-fi idea, but the physics worked and it’s always how innovation looks at first: crazy!
The team obtained an International Patent Classification and built a prototype demonstrating the technology.
An airplane traveling intercontinental distances without fossil energy is a quest. Nowadays, existing solutions, like hydrogen, don’t work at scale and will take decades to develop.
Space launch technology can be used to decarbonize air transport, which produces much more CO2 than space transportation.
It opens a new area of aviation. It’s not about reducing CO2 emission of an airplane from Paris to Sydney—it cuts them off and, ironically, it’s faster. The trip would take 2 hours instead of 21h.
We eliminate problems instead of trying to find their solutions by rethinking the fundamentals. An airplane carries its own chemical energy, fuel, and systems to convert the energy energy. Engines require a lot of mass to fly and, consequently, a lot of energy is consumed just to carry the energy.
We put these systems, engines, and fuel tanks out of the airplane and onto the ground. It opens news possibilities.
The airplane is accelerated at ground level in a circular catapult, gaining nearly all of the speed it needs to fly up to its delivery destination. Once the airplane is at full speed, it’s launched into the atmosphere.
The electric engine of the airplane is the catapult and a ground installation makes it easy to connect to the airplane’s electrical network. It’s simple, realistic, and fast to deploy.
The front picture shows the catapult. Depending on the travel distance, it ranges from 10 to 100 meters in diameter. The cargo airplane carries 20 kg to 10 tons.
Figure 1 is the subscale catapult, which is 3 meters in diameter and half a ton. It was used to design the next catapult, which is 10 meters in diameter.
The first airplane carries 20 kg of payload. It’s an autonomous RC model. Figures 2, 3, and 4 depict a version in development.
We share it with you because it’s not just our solution—it’s a solution to a problem we all face.
We are RC model enthusiasts. We have developed a full RC aircraft as an ambassador of this project. The images in Figures 2 through 4 are for research purposes on a supersonic version.
TOM, our RC ambassador aircraft will be disclosed very soon.
TOM is a subscale model of the engineering model that we will launch from a catapult that is 10 meters in diameter. If you want to discover more about this unique aircraft and about this first-in-history catapult technology, visit this page:
We promise a live demo of our catapult.
Be part of it. Spread this message in the community. It could all start with RC enthusiasts like you.
1) “CO2 emissions dangerously impact the equilibrium of our home planet.” No, CO2 emissions are the natural product of animal life and of combustion. Earth’s natural system of equilibrium dealing with changes in its environment has worked just fine for millions of years.
2) “….it’s a solution to a problem we all face. ” At most it is only a partial solution affecting just a part of our transportation sector, but only if it works.
3) Considering the acceleration forces needed to achieve the velocity of the projectile I wouldn’t want to be a passenger on this thing!
4) Was this supposed to be held until being published April 1?