Redefining space access with reusable, airport-based spaceplanes: sustainable, efficient, and far ahead in technology.
Our horizontal take-off spaceplanes operate from airports and no longer need complex launch infrastructures. Thanks to aircraft-like operation and reusability for hundreds of missions, our spaceplanes will fundamentally disrupt the economics of spaceflight in terms of cost-efficiency, flexibility, safety.
By eliminating space debris and using the eco-friendly propellant combination synthetic kerosene (SAF) and liquid oxygen (LOX), we will introduce a new level of sustainability in spaceflight.
The origins of the technology were developed at the German Aerospace Center DLR, based on at least 30 years of German and European spaceplane research.
We develop a series of spaceplanes of increasing size and performance in a step-by-step approch, but always with the same basic configuration.
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The spaceplane Aurora combines aircraft and rocket launcher technologies within a unique design. Aurora offers a game-changing economic viability and opens the door for routine low-cost and safe access to space.
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Hypersonic Research Platform VEGA - The two-stage fully reusable spaceplane VEGA will serve as hypersonic testbed and experimental platform. In a secondary function, the vehicle can be used as small-satellite launcher when using an expendable upper-stage.
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Our horizontal take-off spaceplanes operate from airports and no longer need complex launch infrastructures. Thanks to aircraft-like operation and reusability for hundreds of missions, our spaceplanes will fundamentally disrupt the economics of spaceflight.
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Our spaceplanes will be equipped with optional aerial refueling capabilities. This fundamentally changes the operational capabilities of spaceplanes and hypersonic aircraft.
In parallel to our spaceplane development, we develop uncrewed tankers to refuel our spaceplanes as well as other aircraft in the air.
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We are leveraging our spaceplane technology to derive unique defense products. Thus, we are providing unmatched capabilities for protecting the democratic world in a time of growing global insecurity.
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Building and operating scaled spaceplane demonstrators is a key for rapid project progress, technology validation and risk reduction. POLARIS follows this iterative approach with a series of flight demonstrators of increasing size, mass and complexity.
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At POLARIS, we are developing cutting-edge rocket engines for our spaceplanes – designed for hypersonic and orbital missions. The core of this effort are our innovative linear aerospike engines, that we are fully developing and qualifying in-house.
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