Orbex's launch system could reduce carbon emissions by 90%, CEO Chris Larmour tells IE.
“This funding round was about launching and taking the product into space,” Orbex CEO Chris Larmour tells IE in an interview. “It allows us to build the team by about a third, adding 50 people, and then we move to the operation of the vehicle late next year.”
Orbex’s rocket will be reusable and fly using renewable, ultra-low-carbon bio-propane as a fuel. Last year, a University of Exetershowed that the fuel and the rocket’s design would allow it to have a carbon footprint between 90 and 96 percent lower than that of similar launch systems. Rather than complicating the development process, Orbex says Prime’s environmental design goes hand in hand with the company’s ambition of building an efficient, commercially feasible small satellite launcher.
Through van Lede’s guidance and their interest in climate change solutions, Larmour and his team found that merely using fossil propane gives you a carbon emission reduction of approximately 40 percent compared to other hydrocarbons such as kerosene or methane. “If you then use the bio variant of it, you reduce that by another 80 percent,” Larmour says. “So you get a 90% reduction on the carbon emissions of a fossil fuel rocket just by choosing bio propane.
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