The visionary
Dr. Christian Bauer
CEO & CTO
Ph.D. resonance ignition · rocket test bench expert · two patents filed · defence tech · industrial designer
our team
Three founders: scientists at heart, entrepreneurs by choice.
We did not set out to build a better engine. We set out to build the propulsion system an in-space logistics vehicle actually needs.
We started at the Chair of Space Propulsion at TUM, and a decade of that work now sits in the hardware: tanks that need no coolers, a feed system with no pumps and no pressurant, an igniter that needs no power, and a thruster that does not care about propellant phase. That is not a component portfolio. It is one machine.
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The visionary
CEO & CTO
Ph.D. resonance ignition · rocket test bench expert · two patents filed · defence tech · industrial designer
The man of action
COO
Ph.D. combustion chambers · test bench expert · passion to create solutions
The optimist
CQO
Ph.D. cand. multi-phase flow · rocket test bench expert · analyst
For space & defence investors
One propulsion core serves four markets: open-market subsystems, institutional high-Δv engines, commercial last-mile logistics and sovereign defence capability. Technology push and demand pull converge right now.
Founded
2023 · TUM spin-out
Team
14 FTE, engineer-led
Non-dilutive funding
≈€5M to date
Profitability
Profitable since 2025
IP
Resonance ignition, patented
Projects & programmes
10 projects · ESA, EU, NATO programmes
Next milestone · 01
Our own satellite in orbit, demonstrating the world-first passive storing of methalox and proving that the technology is flight-ready.
Next milestone · 02
The first market-ready methalox product generating revenue through sales to large aerospace primes.
Open market
G500 · G25 · IG40 · FARIS
Institutional
L500 · L25k
Service
MULE · we own and fly the vehicle; you buy the delivery
Capability
MOLE · a vehicle the operator owns and tasks
Fuel-agnostic resonance ignition – winner, EC Prize for Game-Changing Innovation for European Launch Solutions · €995k · 2026–27
In progress
Closed-loop control for throttleable liquid rocket engines – ESA · €1.0M · 2025–27
In progress
Quasi-hypergolic methalox RACS injector, 200–500 N – ESA FIRST! · €800k · 2025–26
In progress
Model-based engineering toolchain on the CPM – ESA GSTP · €250k · 2025–26
In progress
Ceramic-resonator flight ignition system – IraSME · 2026–28
Accepted
25 kN in-space cryogenic propulsion, PDR 11/2025 – ESA FLPP PERMATHRUST · €298k
Concluded
Multi-phase cooling for a 500 N methalox thruster – ESA GSTP with DLR · €250k
Concluded
20–25 N station-thruster feasibility – commercial, customer confidential
Concluded
Founding support, DeltaOrbit GmbH – German federal programme · €175k
Concluded
Research transfer from TUM, pre-incorporation – ≈€1.04M · 2022–24
Concluded
Careers · Garching, Munich
Design, build and hot-fire happen under one roof in Garching, on our own test benches. If you join, you will see your part fire within months – not hand it over to someone else to build.
We hire across propulsion, fluid systems, test engineering and avionics, and we take speculative applications seriously. Send us what you have built.
