In an unprecedented milestone for world science, a team of specialists from the company to Argentina Tlón space manufactured the llightest space launcher in history: the Aventura I
with a height of 10 meters, 40 centimeters in diameter and a weight approximately 40 kilos without load, this powerful two-stage micro-launcher was built with the aim of being able to place psychiatric and nanosatellites in orbit between 200 and 850 kilometers highwith capacity to transport up to 22 kilos.
In addition, it allows its operators the flexibility to choose location where they want to be placed instead of being secondary heavy launcher payloads that put them into the orbits their primary mission allows them to.
“The vehicle is very avant-garde since its smallest current rockets weigh between 10 and 15 tons, while the Adventure I is 20 times smaller than the vehicles that can access theIt’s revolutionary in that sense.”commented Pablo Vic, co-founder and CEO of Tlon Space.
“This opens up the game a lot, because With a one ton vehicle like this you will be able to reach space, but also the costs are terribly low compared to those that the other aerospace companies are handling. It is a game changer in the sector”, added the businessman.
Not alone it is the first NLV (nano launch vehicle) in the history of the space industrybut his mighty driving it also has amazing features that go well beyond its diminutive size.
“The EcoStar engine is a liquid fuel and is a hybridization of two inherited concepts: one, from Arianespace’s Viking engine, with characteristics of the oxidant that it uses and the temperatures that it handles and the other, of the Rocket Lab’s Rutherford enginethat makes use of electropumps,” Vic highlighted.
“The combination of both concepts results in a reliable, economical and efficient engine, which also makes the EcoStar the second propellant of its kind worldwide”, he concluded.
