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[Series Premiere] Founder Ian Brooke gives his first public interview to talk about Astro Mechanica, a new startup building electric-adaptive jet engines. And, possibly, the world’s fastest plane. And the cheapest way to orbit. (It’s an ambitious startup idea.)

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(00:00) - Intro

(01:27) - What Astro Mechanica is Building

(05:50) - Jets vs. Rockets

(12:07) - How to Generate Thrust 

(15:07) - Engineering Challenges for Traditional Turbofans

(17:07) - The New Paradigm: Electric Adaptive Jets

(24:23) - Specific Impulse and Efficiency

(32:07) - Ramjet vs. Scramjet

(38:12) - Staging Considerations

(42:25) - Fastest Plane Ever Flown: SR-71 Blackbird and its Challenges

(44:07) - Transitioning from Ramjet to Rocket

(47:27) - Building the Next Boeing

(53:07) - Everyone Gets a Private Jet

(56:07) - Why Start with Space Launch? 

(1:06:07) - Where You Go From There

(1:10:07) - Why Everyone Loves Toyotas

(1:16:12) - The Supersonic Jet Engine Next Door

(1:19:57) - Starting the Company

(1:23:07) - What’s Next?

(1:27:37) - How Do You Do What You’re Doing?

(1:31:07) - hiring@astromecha.co

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Links:

• Astro Mechanica – https://astromecha.co, hiring@astromecha.co
• Ian Brooke – https://twitter.com/k2pilot
• Christian Keil – https://twitter.com/pronounced_kyle

First Principles:

• Specific Impulse (ISP) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse
• Rocket Equation – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
• Navier Stokes Equations – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equations
• Power-to-Weight Ratio – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-weight_ratio

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