Germany lifts off from Australia!! HyImpulse makes history with innovative hybrid rocket!!

German launch provider HyImpulse just made history in South Australia!
And I've been following their story for some time...
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[@DavidWilliams-ig5ec]

Brings new meaning to "let's light this candle"...

[@wesleyclark2032]

I can’t thank you enough for doing these interviews. Rarely do we get to hear from these companies and their brilliant engineers on the cool technologies being explored to further our reach into the universe

[@jonny3003]

It was hard to even find a live stream for this rocket launch. At least one Australian guy made one, The Space Down Under (Thank you a lot!). At the moment there are not many information out there about what altitude was reached and nothing about if the parachutes had been deployed. Also HyImpulse themselves didn't show anything besides the first seconds of the flight. At least in the German Press there were several reports about the launch of the rocket and it's unique propulsion system. Usually we don't get many information there about space. I really hope we'll get a proper live stream from HyImpulse at the next launch with telemetry, onboard video and all the fancy stuff we are used from SpaceX and Rocketlab. Anyways: Congratulations to HyImpulse for the successful flight and thanks for the video Angry!

[@TheAngryAstronaut]

I would've done the Livestream myself if I had just a few more awesome supporters like you. I'll get there! 😀

[@shimskates2935]

​@@TheAngryAstronaut YES YOU WILL!

[@jackmorgan9121]

Hay angry It would of been awesome if you could of do a livesteam on this launch. There has been like 1% news reports about this launch and like 0% report's on that south Australia has two mini space ports. I have been following all space and have never came across any information about these two launch sites in my area. @Angry Im going to send you a message about you maybe coming to watch a launch in south Australia one day soon hopefully 🙏 Cheers Jack

[@jollyroger4494]

Support ist kein Mord. Grüße aus dem Saarland.

[@barneyrubble8107]

Well done AA. Another great short but informative video update.

[@TheAngryAstronaut]

Thanks for watching!!

[@patrikpreder7390]

About 10 years ago, I did some work for a company here in the USA, that used a very similar(if not the same) method of hybrid rocket technology. The awesome thing about hybrid rocket tech, is the ability to throttle and re light the engine at will. Also boil off is reduced by 1/2 as the only thing that can be lost is liquid o2 (or at least until we find another, more stable, oxidizer componet). By the way, the rocket was 20ft long x 20 inches in diameter and produced 20,000 lb of thrust! Fairly impressive,!

[@patrickmchargue7122]

"Light this candle!" is even more meaningful now.

[@Fireblot8826]

Thanks for the comprehensive coverage. SpaceX dominates the space reporting scene, but the rest of the space industry is just as important!

[@ThomasKelly.]

Very cool.

[@TheAngryAstronaut]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@FirstLast-vr7es]

Competition is always good. Keep up the good work. All the best from the US!

[@menotyou1234]

Congradulations, Germany, on this awesome achievement. That you Jordan for bringing this to us..!!!

[@imdefender]

The sound is great this time thank you

[@user-sl1sf6ps1h]

Bloody long way Australia . What about Gilmore space they are getting ready to launch from Bowen Nth Queensland and yay it's not far from me ! Perhaps a segment on them ?

[@frankcorredine2475]

Very interested is seeing that sequel! I wish both you and them success in achieving your goals.

[@Laviolette101]

Thanks!

[@TheAngryAstronaut]

Thanks so much for your generous support!!

[@VicariousAdventurer]

HyImpulse is aptly named. I am sure the idea is to capture some of the convenience of solid boosters with an ability to.shut down and an efficiency close to liquid rockets. Most hydrocarbons have a similar Isp to kerosene with oxygen. So, somebody has finally bitten the bullet and said, "Why not liquid oxygen instead of nitrous oxide or peroxide for VASTLY greater performance?"

[@winman14may]

was awesome to finally see a launch from here in OZ can't wait for Gilmore Space to launch their 1st test flight of Eris coming soon

[@Tinman_56]

It was a good launch!

[@VainerCactus0]

Aussie Aussie Aussie!

[@davidhanna8470]

Power that sucker with earwax and we got a renewable rocket resource.

[@jafo461]

You bring it together brother. Cheers

[@TheAngryAstronaut]

WOW!!! Thanks so much for your amazing support!!

[@scottthomas3792]

In the past, anyway, " paraffin oil " in England meant kerosene... paraffin lamps were kerosene lamps. Not sure if that's still the case. A candle wax rocket! I hope this little rocket company is successful. The more people getting into space, the better.

[@direbearcoat7551]

Well! Good luck, little rocket company! Keep up the great work!

[@tjolofree1134]

paraffin.. cool!

[@danielnogrady9004]

Well it burns I'll give it that.

[@nickdiamond7595]

Wow. This interview started and I thought they were at different locations. Then he handed her the mic.

[@ejciicollins3200]

That's a hell of a candle wax 🕯️🔥 🚀🤣🤣🤣

[@donporter8432]

Bravo!

[@ClippyC]

As I watch all the rockets heading to space, I think about the movie Wall-E and wonder when we will be in the same situation.

[@NicholasNerios]

There definitely are a lot of smaller independent space launch industries. Each with their own particular qualitie.

[@shimskates2935]

Welcome to Europe. I hadn't heard that you moved. I urge you to visit clevedon pier should you get the chance.

[@thomastolan1477]

That test stand test looked like the burn is very uneven. Not good, need to get that down pat.

[@kindnuguz]

Personally don't think we need humans in space but use these devices for delivery of goods around the world. Away to revolutionize shipping and maybe even travel. But in Space? Like where? The moon or Mars or? Need to have a huge place build as a destination first imo But any of this development is good. Well done to all involved

[@johnmoruzzi7236]

As I understand it, paraffin and kerosene are the same thing….. pretty much jet fuel or domestic heating oil… Surprised they went to Australia instead of e.g. Esrange in Sweden, they must have got a sweet deal to promote and publicise the place, unless they want to offer southern hemisphere launches as well.

[@ChristopherLecky]

Its about time we channel human momentum into a direction of worth people!

[@alphaomega154]

thats how germany "cover" develop their ICBM tech.

[@georgemccune7928]

Just wondering the German rocket using liquid oxygen and the paraffin wax did they have any cooling issues with their rocket

[@ericblanchard5873]

What's "Mai" 3rd 2024? Is that how they spell "May" in Australia or Germany?

[@TheAngryAstronaut]

Mai is May in German.

[@jonny3003]

@@TheAngryAstronaut It's a hybrid rocket and this is a hybrid date guys! ^^

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

Also: in Europe the date is first, then the month. 03.05.24 is 3rd of Mai, 2024.

[@therealniksongs]

And pronounced like the English word "my."

[@davidnobular9220]

In Australia, it's "May, mate "

[@RobertMurray-wk5ib]

I’m smoking weed (legally in Ohio) don’t mind me… Random thought occurred to me: If you travel close to the speed of light in a spaceship 🚀, then wouldn’t the 3 atoms ⚛️ or so per cubic meter add up to a “wind” of sorts? We probably stuck to die on earth 🌍 forever.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

There are also other particles there so yes that is a problem. Arthur C. Clark's "Songs of Distant Earth" takes place when a starship from Earth makes a stop by at an earlier colonised world. This is done in order to rebuild their thick, virtual iceberg shield that has been vittled down during the trip. The book is mostly about the interaction between the travellers and the locals. A recommended read. Mike Oldfield got so inspired by the novel that he composed a musical score for it. Also highly recommended.

[@shimskates2935]

I'm smoking in the UK! Rishi can't find me here! But, yes, there would be a wind of sorts. My question is: how far do you need to go to kill a person? Road rash style. Because, if you're traveling between stars you're still going to take a LONG TIME; eventually you'll need to repair something on the outside. I hope we as humans can solve this, because I would love to take an interstellar cruise ship, what a retirement.

[@S1nwar]

but is a 50% price reduction enough to be competitive?

[@tomtomdishman4029]

#Boomsticks

[@mustang607]

So did they recover the rocket, and can they reuse it?

[@shimskates2935]

I think refurbish might be a better term. I'm not overly sure but SpaceX boosters can be refueled because the fuel is a liquid, like high power petrol (in the case of the Falcon 9). I just can't picture a mass produced solid fuel, since it's cylindrical.

[@scoremat]

I want to make a rocket engine fueled by ear wax

[@michaelpettersson4919]

We really need options for fuel. And do not hesitate to use different fuels for different stages of a rocket whenever that is optimal.

[@shimskates2935]

Would that not add launch cost? -Increased ground infrastructure -Potentially hazardous chemicals (Hydrozene comes to mind) Although, Using a Solid or Hybrid first stage to decrease part count (and hence complexity) is a good idea to explore. ❤

[@jamescobban857]

Launch while fighting against the 9.8m/s^2 of gravity requires very concentrated thrust. It is easier to generate high thrust when using a fuel which has high energy density per volume. That is the same reason that we use gasoline, or kerosene (aka diesel fuel), for terrestrial propulsion. On the other hand upper stages do not need to counter gravity because by the time they fire the spacecraft is travelling nearly horizontally. So for upper stages it is better to go for high energy density by mass. The Space Transportation System (STS) popularly known as the Space Shuttle was focussed on recovery and reuse and was at first considered an experiment toward developing a Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) vehicle so it used hydrolox engines. However it would have needed twenty-five SSME/RS25s just to get off the ground, so they added the solid rocket boosters (SRBs). I do not understand why ESA went with hydrolox propulsion for the *first* stage of Ariane5 and Ariane6 as that choice *massively* increased the cost and increased the delays in reaching production, when they did not have the motivations of NASA for choosing that technology.

[@shimskates2935]

@@jamescobban857 VERY COOL space shuttle fact! Would the specific impulse of an H2/O2 liquid fuel mix not be better for concentrated thrust? Also by "voncentrated" what do you mean?

[@jamescobban857]

@@shimskates2935 Thrust intense enough to lift a vehicle against 9.8m/s^2 of acceleration demands high energy density per *volume* . LH2 has the lowest energy density for volume of any useful fuel. Basically you just cannot pump enough kilograms of fuel per second to get a decent thrust. That is the main reason why the RS-25 has a mass of 3,117kg, a length of 4.3m, and a diameter of 2.4m, but only a thrust of 2.279MN. Meanwhile the Raptor 3 has a mass of only 1,600kg, a length of 3.1m, a diameter of 1.3m and a thrust of 2.64MN. Oh and the price for a brand-new RS-25 is $140M, while the price of a Raptor 3 is only $250K. Or conversely the cost of all 33 Raptors on the first stage of Starship is only $8M, while the cost of the 4 RS-25s on the Senate Launch System is $560M. And those 4 RS-25s could not even lift the SLS off the ground without the assistance of the 32MN thrust of the highly toxic SRBs. which are already responsible for the deaths of 7 American heroes. Ariane5 and 6 also cannot get off the ground without SRBs.

[@SpaceAdvocate]

I love rockets more than most people, but this one was a little hard to get too excited about. By all means, it's no small feat to launch a new sounding rocket like this one, but at the same time, it's relatively low complexity, and was nowhere near space. There are dozens if not hundreds of similar launches every year, across a wide variety of different rockets. It really underlines how far HyImpulse still has to go.

[@jonny3003]

It was just a first test for the bigger version where more core stages are bundled together. And the low complexity will actually be an advantage for the bigger versions later because launch costs might get much lower than with complex liquid fuel engines.

[@VicariousAdventurer]

Being both low complexity and using two efficient fuels is the whole point. Unfortunately, it is obviously higher complexity than portrayed, as putting these two desired things together has for some reason put more people off. Maybe computational complexity of how to get it working, like the rotation detonation engine? Big !== advanced

[@VicariousAdventurer]

Maybe like the solid ramjet in the Meteor missile (UK) - tough to figure out, but cheap to build, and outperforms traditional rockets. Is it "complex" when theory is hard and build is easy? And for all the people that don't get it - a LOX/hydrocarbon is a rival for a liquid rocket, better is than traditional solid rockets. She tries to clue in people by using the name, "HyImpulse!"

[@Hykje]

Mythbusters used nitrous oxide and paraffin on their "Confederate Rocket".

[@UsefulAlien]

Interesting, but primative technology.

[@VicariousAdventurer]

Obviously not!

[@Yezpahr]

Great video as always, the audio was also great 👍. Are these paraffin fuels solid or liquid? I keep thinking of those bbq fire starter paraffin wax bricks but I have no example to replace that bad idea with lol.

[@jonny3003]

It's a hybrid propulsion system. Paraffin is solid and oxygene is low temperature liquid.

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

We had parrafin in bottles to finish guitars, though I prefer oil. This liquid wax should also possibly serve as fuel.

[@VicariousAdventurer]

Two peoples divided by a common language - Americans mean "paraffin wax" synthetic wax, "paraffin" means kerosene to the British. TAA is apparently unaware that not explicitly mentioning wax is a language issue.

[@SnkobArts]

is the liquid oxidizer fed via piping, or is it mixed into the candle wax fuel, making it into a viscous jelly-like sibstance?

[@thexfile.]

Maybe Paula for a new date... 😋

[@mushmouth]

Wtf is with her hair? Wow what a look

[@fan1701]

This is small potatoes, honestly. I hope it develops into something more substantial. I can't see this scaling up though. The burn looks very inefficient to me.

[@VicariousAdventurer]

I disagree, this is a greater advance than it appears at first.

[@laxplayer99]

so basically just a big version of what mythbusters did on their confederate rocket episode.

[@yookoala]

Not really. I don't think mythbuster ever did any pluming to their rocket. I think they did strictly solid fuel motor in their tests. Not to say any kind of gimbal control. This rocket, if I get it correct, uses paraffin with liquid oxygen. They can control the rocket by controlling the dynamic pressure of oxygen supply. And they will add gimbal and onboard avionics to control their rocket's trajectory.

[@VicariousAdventurer]

liquid oxygen >>> energetic and efficient

[@NeilABliss]

I'd just like to remind people who it was that effectively kick started the Space race......it wasn't Americans. Who invented the rocket? That's right....Germans launched them , and Brits had to figure out how to bring them down...... those are your two earliest adopters.

[@Superkuh2]

Solid rockets were invented very long ago by the people living in the region China occupies now. Liquid rockets were first created by Robert H. Goddard (1926) in the USA. Hybrid rockets were first created by the Soviet Group for the Study of Reactive Motion in the 1930s.

[@NeilABliss]

@@Superkuh2 still , Werner and crowd certainly optimized the whole process. Tongue firmly planet in cheek if your unsure.

[@Superkuh2]

@@NeilABliss The brits did not bring down rockets. They brought down pulsejets.

[@NeilABliss]

@@Superkuh2 tongue in cheek for crying out loud. Let's get pedantic shall we?

[@NeilABliss]

@@Superkuh2 beside a V1 was not a pulse jet , that was the V2 .

[@HansImWald]

Meanwhile someone on this planet is producing infinite energy that we could use and doesn't share it with us

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

and electricity prices have doubled 🙈

[@kastenolsen9577]

They keep it secret to stay alive. Look at history and see the murder committed in the name of profit!!!

[@personzorz]

No

[@ericblanchard5873]

My solar panels create infinite energy, just at a small slow rate.

[@soapbar88]

They won't share energy from space either. Wood is now such a popular method of heating the price of wood stoves tripled here.

[@blackswansystem]

Yes. Good video

[@ThatUFOShowUFOBustersAustralia]

Hello Angry Man 😖Just wondering guys ? what if you bolted down like 1000 Massive Rockets just like that test rocket on this video 🚀 to earth. could it slow down or speed up out rotation? Just wondering 👨‍🦯

[@robertfoskett1016]

😂😂😂.