Afterburner Hardware
Velontra picked up new afterburner hardware made of nickel super alloy.
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Summer Whites
Velontra is proud to have hosted two midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy, Sam Anglen and Ethan Schneider.
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 tour of our test facility and witnessed a live engine demo. This visit was an important opportunity for us to display how Velontra is playing …
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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 tested at our facility and now in the wind tunnel at Purdue University. The article below does a great job at highlighting some of our …
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 air-breathing propulsion system is up to 6 times more fuel efficient than any rocket, and uses oxygen from the air which creates thousands of pounds …
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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 first flying machine. We were very honored to be featured by TechOhio, the Voice of Ohio Third Frontier. Check out this awesome video and write …
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 to pursue research and development in hypersonics. Our ability to rapidly prototype, combined with UMKC’s subject matter expertise and facilities will accelerate our technology development. …
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, Sinclair has aerospace programs focused on UAV’s. Velontra is excited to be collaborating with Sinclair as we develop unmanned hypersonic platforms. Here is the link …
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 time and cost effectively than ever. As a VOSB we are warfighter owned, warfighter operated, and developing technology for fellow warfighters.
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 machinery. This has been used on aircraft like the SR-71. We developed a test facility to simulate the high pressure and temperature air that the …
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 be utilized in further innovation of the design. It is great to be part of a VOSB developing and testing hypersonic technology from warfighters for …
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 in the hypersonic and attritable field. We are very excited to see all of the innovation and prototyping that will result from this rounds of …
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 Space Force. Many extraordinary businesses with innovative ideas and business models were presenting and exchanging ideas. Velontra made many great connections and friends.