<div dir="auto">Best of luck Matthew & co. Sounds exciting & hats off
for even getting this far. The new propellant combo sounds
great! <div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br><div><br></div><div>Troy<br><br>Sent
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Original message --------<br>From: Matthew Travis
<matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx><br>Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021, 04:58<br>To:
arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, matthew.travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br>Subject: [AR]
Introduction to Aphelion Aerospace and a new RGHP
system<br><blockquote><div><span
style="font-family:'verdana';color:#000000;font-size:10pt"><div>Hi
everyone,<br /><br />I haven’t posted here in a very long time, mostly because
I’ve been heads-down getting a new launch startup off the ground and we had to
be “hush hush” somewhat. But I would like to give an introduction for the
list.<br /><br />I am a founder and the COO of Aphelion Aerospace, Inc. Our
leadership includes deep industry experience from the Air Force, NASA, SpaceX,
Blue Origin, ULA, OneWeb. Our VP of Launch Systems was lead propulsion
integration for Blue Origin (even installed the engine on New Shepard the Jeff
Bezos flew) and worked for SpaceX in Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon launch
integration and support. Our advisors include Scott Hartwig, former CEO of
United Space Alliance, and Ed Mango, former Program Manager for NASA’s
Commercial Crew Program.<br /><br />Aphelion Aerospace is an early-stage small
satellite systems and launch services company based in Colorado. Our goal is to
operate a dedicated nanosatellite launch service that allows for regular,
scheduled orbital access at an unprecedented high rate and low cost. We are
currently expanding our new facility and HQ in Denver so we can continue to
mature technologies and transition into large-scale hardware production. <br
/><br />For the past three years, the team has been developing technologies to
enable a complete end-to-end solution for low-cost space access using a
propulsion system that will be the first in the U.S. to utilize a new “green”
non-toxic and environmentally-friendly hypergolic bipropellant in an
operational system. This will enable very low system cost, minimal
infrastructure requirements and low launch costs. A lot of our tech is
proprietary but I can say that our oxidizer uses RGHP and the fuel is NOT
petroleum-based (e.g. RP1, Kerosene, etc.). <br /><br />We are also developing
commercial avionics and autonomous flight safety systems as well as cubesat
component hardware as part of the objective to offer end-to-end cubesat launch
services and support to customers across industries.<br /><br />Our next
full-scale propulsion hotfire test campaign is planned for November with our
partner Frontier Astronautics at their test facility in Wyoming. We’re also in
the process of raising our next round of VC investment. While we’re pursuing
traditional funding, we also decided to open up our mission to everyday people
by launching a Reg CF equity crowdfunding campaign on StartEngine that just
launched. I’m not soliciting here, but want to emphasize that we’re not a
startup with nothing but paper designs.<br /><br />I’m looking forward to
sharing more with the list as we progress and are more publicly visible with
our technology. I do invite everyone to visit our website if you are at all
curious about what we’re doing and feel free to shoot me an email with
questions too:<br /><br /><a
href="https://aphelionaerospace.com";>https://aphelionaerospace.com</a><br /><br
/>Thanks!<br /><br />Matthew Travis, President / COO<br />Aphelion Aerospace,
Inc.<br /><a
href="mailto:Matthew.travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>Matthew.travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</a><br
/><br /></div></span></div>
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