Abstract
SpaceRyde is a Canadian orbital launch company building a novel small satellite launch system. Founded in 2018, SpaceRyde’s rocket will launch from a stratospheric balloon platform to provide low cost, individual launches to small satellite customers. As part of this novel launch vehicle system, SpaceRyde is developing the world’s first hybrid rocket engine for an orbital vehicle. This presentation will tell the story of building a rocket engine from the ground up, and the challenges the team has faced along the way.
Bio
Will is the Flight Engine Team Lead at SpaceRyde, a Canadian company building small satellite launch vehicles. He graduated from the department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London with an MEng in aeronautical and spacecraft engineering. While an Imperial he founded ICL Rocketry, a student design team working on sounding rockets and hybrid rocket engines. He also completed a final year project investigating cooled nozzles using nitrous oxide. He has been designing, building and testing rocket engines at SpaceRyde for the last two and half years.
About the Space Engineering Seminar Series
The Space Engineering Seminars, hosted by the Department of Aeronautics, are a series of talks by internationally renowned academics covering a broad range of topics in fluid mechanics, control, and the intersection of these two areas.