It may be cold outside here in Texas, but our team was red hot after their successful ignition test of the TXE-2 engine🔥 The Hotfire and Propulsion teams met over winter break at the Firefly Aerospace Briggs facility to attempt an ignition test of our TXE-2 engine. The duration of the test was 6 seconds, making this test longer than all previous Hotfire tests TREL has conducted combined, which is a landmark accomplishment for the TXE-2 engine! Topping off this progress is the achievement of a thermal steady-state in the engine's cooling channels. This milestone allowed engineers to gather valuable data to evaluate the current design of TXE-2 and prepare for tests with fully integrated flight hardware. This was a great leap for our propulsion team in finalizing the next iteration of TXE-2 that will fly on Halcyon! The test was a blazing success thanks to the incredible work of our engineers, mentors, and supporters. 🚀 A special thank you to Firefly Aerospace for their generous personnel and facility support—this would not have been possible without them! This was a major step toward launching our Halcyon Rocket, and we look forward to gearing up for our next TXE-2 engine hotfire which will be 10 seconds in duration with a higher OF ratio and chamber pressure. This will be key in pushing our hardware further towards flight performance metrics! 💫
soooo proud of this team!! congratulations!!
this is amazing!! so glad that y'all got to see all your work pay off so spectacularly!
Y’all are so impressive! Cant wait for the next test
So happy to see this video! Congratulations on this achievement and all the hard work that led to it!
Well done, Rocket Tots! Amazing to see your progress 🚀🚀🚀
Excellent work! I'm excited to see what is next. 💪
So excited see these updates! Congratulations team, onto the next one!
Congratulations Ethan Sonnenreich on your achievement! Your dedication and hard work truly shine through in your accomplishments. Well done!
Congrats to the entire team! Also, pretty cool video Alexandra Chavez 😎
Congratulations to the team behind this successful test! We're proud to support such an innovative organization in inspiring the next generation to reach new heights.