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December 2nd, 2022
Image credit: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Do you know that more than 76% of lungs/heart harvested for transplantation are discarded? By the time the organs reach the patient it is too late for a successful transplant.
Here’s the solution offered by Canada’s Space Engine Systems (SES) of Edmonton, Alberta: Hypersonic flight, point-to-point, for fast delivery of vital replacement organs.
SES has built in the requirement to get lungs within 4 hours from anywhere in the world, fast tracking this application into its Hello-1 Point to Point system.
“It is about saving lives,” explains an SES press statement.
Point-to-point – rapid delivery of replacement organs.
Image credit: Space Engine Systems (SES)
Turbo-ram jet
SES has successfully tested its turbo-ram jet in 2021 and further testing with multiple fuels including hydrogen was completed in 2022.
The group adds that SES built the world’s first mobile turbo-ram jet test facility of 25,000 lb. force (111 kN), and is also building the world’s first full scale high temperature (1420 °C, 2588 °F) wing bending test facility. That facility can heat up a 72 feet Hello-1 X to replicate the full hypersonic temperature and simulate the conditions during the wing bending to complete failure testing.
Image credit: Space Engine Systems (SES)
The Hello-1 X is a demonstrator which will go to around 20 miles (32 kilometers) altitude, reaching up to Mach 5 using a turbo ram jet with a cryogenic cooling system. Hello-1 X is a piloted vehicle with an auto-pilot option “making it very flexible for regulatory approval bodies to see the redundant systems for safety,” adds the company statement.
For more information on Space Engine Systems and its multi-faceted plans, go to:
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