Innovative Space Carrier Inc.(Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO Kojiro Hatada), a start-up company aiming to realize a transportation system that enables space travel, has signed a joint research agreement with Muroran Institute of Technology, a national university corporation, to study the propulsion system required for reusable space travel vehicles (rockets).
Innovative Space Carrier Inc. is a start-up company with the vision of " Creating an era when everyone has access to space" and aims to realize a transportation system that enables space travel.
In starting the development of a fully reusable single-stage space plane (SSTO) that achieves low cost, high frequency, and high reliability, it is first necessary to proceed with computer simulations to determine the engine cycle and structure of the propulsion system that satisfies the mission requirements. For these studies, we have concluded a joint research agreement with Professor Masaharu Utsumi of the Muroran Institute of Technology's Aerospace Vehicle Systems Research Center, effective November 1, 2022.
Through this joint research, we will identify technical issues necessary to realize a single stage, fully reusable spacecraft reusable(SSTO; Single Stage To Orbit), and examine drastic cost reduction and humanspace transportation technologies, and then accelerate the study of business plans, including the provision of future space transportation services such as point to point (P2P) and space travel. After identifying necessary technological issues and examining space transportation technologies, we will accelerate the study of business plans including the provision of future space transportation services such as point-to-point (P2P) and space travel.
■Outline of Muroran Institute of Technology
Corporation Name : Muroran Institute of Technology
Representative : President Yoshihisa Kukan
Location : 27-1, Mizumoto-cho, Muroran-shi, Hokkaido
URL : https://muroran-it.ac.jp/
■Press Release
October 31, 2022 Innovative Space Carrier Inc., Muroran Institute of Technology and reusablestart joint research on propulsion system of reusable space plane (rocket )