CNES Awards Contract to French Spaceplane Startup - European Spaceflight

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CNES Awards Contract to French Spaceplane Startup - European Spaceflight

Credit: AndroMach French spaceplane startup AndroMach announced on 15 May that it had received a CNES contract to begin testing an early prototype of its Banger v1 rocket engine. Founded in 2023, AndroMach is developing a pair of spaceplanes that will be used to perform suborbital and orbital missions to space. The suborbital ENVOL spaceplane will utilize turbojet engines for takeoff and landing, and a pressure-fed LOX/biopropane rocket engine t…