 This team, based in the USA give away few
details about their "Solaris" X-Prize attempt vehicle. If you look at
the team briefing, you find the word "proprietary" against most of the
useful details. However, the above picture, and I can't remember where I found
it, now, indicates a launch from below water. Interesting. |
Well, at least you
see that they are intending to paint it black and the exhaust has a very solid
sulphurous look to it. There are some pictures on their
website, indicating that something has been built and tested, but there no
details of a progression to the X-Prize to be had. The fuel for Solaris-X is
given as (the unusual) fuming nitric acid as oxidizer and "hydrocarbon
X" as fuel. There do seem to be facilities, but there is no
"News" section on their website, only some entries in a
"Media" section without hyperlinks. One cannot be very hopeful
that this team is a serious X-Prize contender, on the available evidence.
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