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In the last 12 months, we have been working relentlessly on the development of our Aquila engine – fully designed, built and tested in-house at our engine test site in Esrange, Sweden.

We ran 719 test sequences, both on subsystems of the engine and the integrated system. With 124 hotfires in our books, we are tremendously excited to share the progress our team has achieved.

Throughout the last year we reached nominal ignitions, chamber pressures and performance while optimizing the design for high manufacturing throughput. We believe that scalability in manufacturing is one of the biggest challenges for the space industry: going from single satellites and few rockets to thousands of satellites and rockets. Our approach to automated production processes, thus, is a core element of our engine development.