Projects
Rocket Engineering’s project experience includes concept design of propulsion systems, supply chain identification, provision of technical support to flight programmes, interim project and programme management, and R&D into advanced space propulsion, from proposal writing, through to project delivery and roadmapping…
2022:
Rocket Engineering has been collaborating with the UK's Nuclear Space Power Working Group, NSPWG, which was formed in 2020 to define, promote and develop UK nuclear space power propositions through pooling knowledge and skills across industry government and academia, leveraging the nation’s significant investment in terrestrial nuclear energy systems development and supporting technologies. More about the NSPWG, chaired by Rolls Royce, and the other partners in this short briefing..
2021:
SuperMagdrive is a project funded by the UK Space Agency, and in partnership with Magdrive Ltd and Oxford University’s Centre for Applied Superconductivity CfAS. This was funded in part through a UK Space Agency National Space Technology Programme Pathfinder Grant, between November 2020 and April 2021. Find out more about SuperMagdrive in our case study report.
(Roadmap for fusion space propulsion. Client: UK Space Agency National Space Technology Programme, Grant for Exploratory Idea)
2020:
Study into fusion energy based space propulsion using UK compact spherical tokamak technology (partnership with: Cranfield University / Prof. Bob Parkinson, Imperial College London / Dr. Aaron Knoll, Tokamak Energy)
2019
Small lab bench hybrid rocket engine demonstrator with Cranfield University.
2017
Development of a small composite liquid oxygen tank , with Geodome Ltd, testing at Kingston University London
(sectioned tank after rapid thermal chilldown containing LOx. Partner: Geodome Ltd)
2016
Bipropellant rocket engine research and development at Kingston University London
(Prototype vortex flow rocket engine developed with PhD Candidate Jack James Marlow)
2012:
High Thrust Apogee Engine (HTAE) interim project management & materials selection technical support.
1.5kN storable propellant rocket engine . See link to paper in trade journal Materials World
Client: Moog-Isp Westcott, now Nammo-Westcott)
2011:
Study into environmental impacts of expendable launch vehicles
(client: Logica CMG UK)