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Small Sat or Bust Find Velontra CEO, Robert Keane, in the Purple to talk about the most Affordable and Reliable LEO access! " The Small Satellite Conference, also known as ...
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Small Sat or Bust
Small Sat or Bust Find Velontra CEO, Robert Keane, in the Purple to talk about the most Affordable and Reliable LEO access! " The Small Satellite Conference, also known as ...
Go Bronco! Go Bearcats!
Go Bronco! Go Bearcats! We had a blast hosting John Weidner, Dean of Engineering at UC, and Ryan Hays, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer at UC during a demonstration of ...
Afterburner Hardware
Afterburner Hardware Velontra picked up some new hardware made of nickel super alloy. Thanks, Chris Beck at Innovative 3D Manufacturing and Keith Brady at Renishaw. Looks beautiful! Excited to see ...
Summer Whites
Summer Whites Velontra is proud to have hosted two midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy, Sam Anglen and Ethan Schneider, for a summer internship and collaboration. During their time ...
Senator Brown Supporting Aerospace in the Birthplace
Senator Brown Supporting Aerospace in the Birthplace Velontra recently had the pleasure of hosting Senator Sherrod Brown's State Director, John Ryan, and Southwest Regional Director, Joyce Frazier-Powdrill. They took a ...
Featured in Forbes
Featured in Forbes Velontra is accelerating quickly and literally. With VC funding and multiple government contracts, we have rapidly developed our unique hypersonic technology. The air-breathing propulsion system has been ...
Velontra Hypersonic Space Plane Flies into Y-Combinator
Velontra is building a hypersonic space plane that can takeoff from anywhere in any weather. This horizontal takeoff increases launch reliability and enables customers to directly access any orbit. Our ...
Birthplace of Aviation
Velontra is excited to be actively involved in the Ohio ecosystem. We are developing cutting edge hypersonic technology a few miles away from where the Wright brothers built the world's ...
Boldly Go
Velontra is moving forward into the unknown, as we rapidly develop hypersonic propulsion and platforms. We are proud to announce that we are teamed with University of Missouri Kansas City ...
Autonomy Bytes!!!
Velontra's CEO Rob Keane was honored to be invited on a podcast with Dr. Shepherd and Ryan Smith of Sinclair Community College. In keeping with the highest of Dayton traditions, ...
Velontra Gathers Speed
Velontra is accelerating and catching attention. We are excited to be featured in numerous articles and websites including Yahoo Finance and Market Watch. Velontra is developing attritable hypersonic technology more ...
Team Member Monday’s #1: Craig Whelden
Craig’s leadership journey began as an Eagle Scout at age 14. Thirty years later, he was the youngest General in the United States Army. Combined with another nine years as ...
Demo Day
This is the Velontra team during a demonstration event held for businesses, research institutions, and investor partners. The event was a blast, thanks to all who came out to support ...
It’s Hype Time!!!
Velontra successfully completed testing of one of the world's smallest ramjets. A ramjet functions by using a platform's velocity as a way to raise pressure without heavy and complicated turbo ...
Layer by Layer
Velontra's unique ability to prototype hypersonic components incredibly quickly hinges on a key enabling technology, additive manufacturing. Here is a picture of Velontra's additively manufactured ramjet prototype. This design was ...
Testing — 3,2,1…
This was an amazing and successful weekend with Velontra testing hardware. Velontra's additively manufactured small-scale ramjet performed well. The test proved Velontra's F.A.S.T. methodology and provided outstanding lessons learned to ...
Racing Handoff
The B-52 is one of the oldest and longest running airplanes in the USAF fleet. It is pretty cool to see "BUFF" being used "literally" as a step-off point for ...
Oldie but Goodie
The SR-71 and its propulsion system was a ground breaking project undertaken in the late 1950's. The speed and efficiency Skunk Works developed and prototyped a new aircraft and propulsion ...
To the Moon!!!
The space exploration boom is just starting. Led by U.S. investors and entrepreneurs, records are being set and boundaries expanded. As the investment money pours in, it will be exciting ...
Hyper Focused!!!
The Pentagon has established Hypersonics as a top priority for technological progress. The plan outlines 4 phases for this. Phase 1 is "Technology development and concept demonstration." Phase 2 is ...
Train How You Fight
Weapons can be no better than the user. The amazing innovation in the hypersonic field has produced some really cool weapon prototypes, some of which may be fielded soon. It ...
Perception is Reality
With temperatures over 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, protecting sensitive and necessary optics becomes a real challenge. Protecting them is difficult enough, but doing this without impeding them will require some innovative ...
Speed is Security
The old military adage holds true in the modern age. Russian and Chinese advances in hypersonics have created a standoff option for denial of U.S. assets. However, the good news ...
It’s Proposal Time!!! Happy Valentine’s Day!
It is that time of the year. Pencils flying and ideas being generated. The AFWERX Open topic SBIR/STTR proposals are due Thursday Feb 18. Velontra has a couple of proposals ...
Defense Leadership Forum -2021 Airforce Contracting Summit
Velontra had the honor and opportunity to attend the Defense Leadership Forum - 2021 Airforce contracting summit. There were some great sessions outlining the future of the Air Force and ...
Small but Deadly
A swarm of unmanned, possibly hypersonic munitions will be a key component of the long range precision fire program. This will produce powerful tools for the Army and Marine Corps. ...
Birthplace of Aviation!!!
From the Wright Brothers Flyer to the X51, Ohio has been at the forefront of Aviation technology. It is exciting to see this substantial hypersonic contract awarded to a local ...
21st Century Military Technology
The current weapon's race brings new challenges and focus areas along with some old ones. Speed has been a critical part of military technology since the first slingshot. Nothing is ...
Seeing is Believing!!!
Ya don't have to be a veteran to know it's mighty hard to hit what you can't see. This contract will help ensure that hypersonic threats can be detected and ...
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