Hypersonic Flight Testing

Varda provides a service for testing hypersonic and reentry flight environments without the need for customers to build costly dedicated test vehicles. Their orbital capsule enters the atmosphere at 18,000 miles per hour, reaching Mach 25+ on every mission before landing by parachute. This offers a real flight environment for subsystems like thermal protective materials, navigation, communication, and sensors, allowing customers to gain flight heritage and advance their Technology Readiness Level (TRL). The service is characterized by affordability, frequency, and recoverability, enabling high-fidelity data and simplified post-flight analysis.