C6 Launch Systems

[tater]

Canadian smallsat launcher.

 

https://www.c6launch.ca/

(website is kinda awful, IMO)

 

 

 

[StrandedonEarth]

C6 (ok, C6-5) was one of my favourite rocket engines... for losing rockets....

Seriously though, I’m surprised I haven’t heard of these guys. Nice to see a Canadian entry in the smallsat launcher race. Hope they make it. 

[SpaceFace545]

Yelp that website felt like an arcade game and the rocket looks like its from tron, but good luck to them.

[sevenperforce]

That’s a weird shape for an engine.

Looks like kerolox but I can’t be sure. 

[tater]

They're apparently testing here in NM (at White Sands).

 

[SpaceFace545]

15 minutes ago, sevenperforce said:

That’s a weird shape for an engine.

Looks like kerolox but I can’t be sure. 

the upper stage eninge looks the same as the lower stage engines.

[sevenperforce]

3 hours ago, tater said:

https://www.c6launch.ca/

(website is kinda awful, IMO)

Good grief the website really does suck. Ugh. Who thought this would be cool? It's not.

At 13 meters that's not much bigger than the SS-520-5.

Cool that they are using a COTS engine. 5000 pounds-force is a touch over 22 kN so we are looking at roughly the same thrust as a Rutherford. Surprising that they aren't putting a vacuum nozzle on the upper stage but with ORSC they may not need it.

 

[SOXBLOX]

On the website, the image of the engine says "Ursa Major Technologies". Weren't they producing engines for someone else, too?

[tater]

I think so. They're up in CO.

https://www.ursamajortechnologies.com/

[SOXBLOX]

Found it. Yeah, it's the Hadley engine. I remember that from another smallsat startup for sure...

[RyanRising]

Phantom Space (yeah, the “Orion LAS photoshop” guys) were also using Ursa Major  engines. They don’t seem to be hurting for customers, though we’ll have to see if any of those customers survive the coming years...

[KSK]

1 hour ago, RyanRising said:

Phantom Space (yeah, the “Orion LAS photoshop” guys) were also using Ursa Major  engines. They don’t seem to be hurting for customers, though we’ll have to see if any of those customers survive the coming years...

Yeah, with the probable shakeout in the smallsat launcher market, I'm expecting a bear market  in engine providers.

[RyanRising]

5 hours ago, KSK said:

Yeah, with the probable shakeout in the smallsat launcher market, I'm expecting a bear market  in engine providers.

Thanks, Dad.