RPS Hypersonic Booster
Rocket Propulsion Systems (RPS)
Liquid-fueled Centurion-powered hypersonic test booster benchmarked against the LRHW.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Thrust
- 3,307 N
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Thrust
- 3307 lbf
- Subscale demo speed
- Mach 4.4
- Subscale payload
- 15 kg
- Subscale burn time
- 165 s
- Full-scale payload
- 1500 kg
- Full-scale range
- 560-742 km
- Cost (subscale)
- $875,000
- Cost (full-scale)
- $1.4M
About
The RPS Hypersonic Booster is a liquid-propellant booster using the Centurion engine architecture, developed as a lower-cost alternative benchmarked against the US Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) booster stage. A subscale demonstrator has reached Mach 4.4 carrying a 15kg payload with a burn time of 165 seconds, while the full-scale design targets a 1,500kg payload and a range of 560-742km.
Documentation
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