Afterburner Hardware
Velontra picked up new afterburner hardware made of nickel super alloy.
3DPrinting
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 created with 1 print job with 1 part!!! Additive manufacturing builds a prototype one small layer at a time. This allows it to be incredibly …
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 …
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 new here other than the magnitude, Hypersonic. However, achieving this speed in unmanned and highly autonomous systems is something new facilitated by modern computing and …