Ad Astra Rocket Company Completes PDR for New Engine
Hello reader! It follows a note published on the day ( 06/29 ) in the website “Parabolic Arc” highlighting that the Ad Astra Rocket Company completed the PDR of the new rocket engine . Duda Falcão News Ad Astra Rocket Company Completes PDR for New Engine By Douglas Messier June 29, 2013, at 7:31 pm HOUSTON, TX (Ad Astra PR) – After more than a year of planning and preparation, a team of Ad Astra engineers and physicists, along with NASA engineers participating as part of a technical interchange, completed the company’s first formal preliminary design review (PDR) of the VF-200 engine. The 200 kW “proto-flight” is the company’s first engine planned to be tested in space. The review was conducted on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at Ad Astra’s research facility near Houston, TX. The PDR incorporates the collective engineering knowledge gained over several years from the VX-200 experimental program as well as multiple conceptual design studies carried o