Vaya Space to use SSC

Vaya Space, a developing small satellite and technology company is deep into the development of its STAR-3D vortex hybrid engine that will be used on the company’s Dauntless rocket. The company announced a multifaceted agreement with NASA for use of Kennedy Space Center, Fla., and Stennis Space Center, Miss., for engine demonstration and testing. It signed an exclusive launch contract with All2Space of Brazil for the launch of its CubeSat constellation as early as 2023. All2Space will launch on Vaya Space’s Dauntless rocket. The rocket will be powered by Vaya Space’s STAR-3D. The 3D printed solid-liquid propellant engine uses thermoplastics as a solid fuel that is only ignitable/combustible when in the presence of liquid oxygen (LOX) and given an ignition source. The engine has been static fired over 100 times and successfully flew a suborbital demonstration mission in January 2022 from the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. Vaya Space conducted its inaugural launch earlier this year. (Source: Spaceflight, 07/23/22, Inferse, 07/20/22)