Albacore Aerospace aims to design and build prototypes of high-speed unmanned vehicles powered by jet and/or rocket propulsion. These include space launch vehicles and military drones. Our initial focus is launching small satellites (under $1000 kg) and suborbital payloads. All four founders have many years of experience designing and fabricating advanced aerospace vehicles.
We are asking for our first check: $500K in Pre-Seed funds. Albacore will use this investment for the preliminary design of a prototype, testing of a proprietary engine modification for high altitude flight, and pursuit of the Seed round to build and fly the prototype.
Albacore's unique design concept is a reusable first stage powered by a combination of jet and rocket propulsion. After delivering its payload to space, the first stage reenters the atmosphere, restarts its jet engines, and returns to the launch site. This reduces costs by making the vehicle fully reusable, and minimizes supporting infrastructure by eliminating the need for a secondary launch or recovery vehicle. An optional second stage increases performance.
Our operational vehicle will provide launch services, and could also be sold directly to the U.S. government or other domestic customers.
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