Rocket Corporation GmbH is an Aerospace company established with the purpose of developing Heavy Rockets capable of delivering Commercial Space Stations to space.
For the past 10 years, Europe and the Middle East had to rely on the United States and Russia to launch their payloads.
Although Europe has been semi-autonomously pursuing its space ambitions, predominantly launching from French Guiana, it appears unlikely that in the next 10 years, this purely governmental program will effectively compete in the rapidly evolving space race with China and the USA.
After more than 20 years in Space, the International Space Station (ISS) is planned to be retired by 2030. NASA has started the process of designing the new Space Station, but only with American Companies. This presents a future problem for other nations, which if no action is taken, will be under the full control of the USA.
The current era bears a striking resemblance to the situation that occurred between 1916 to 1936 when the cards were dealt in the Airplane manufacturing industry. During those years, it was predominantly American companies that put their investments in the manufacturing of commercial airplanes and since then, the rest of the world has never recovered. Since 1936 until 2023, only 2 non-American companies made it to the list of top 10 commercial airplane manufacturers, but they did not in reality affect the total supremacy of US companies over the global market share holding more than 94 % of income arising from manufacturing of the commercial planes.
The investors who will invest in the construction of new Space Stations will control the developing infrastructure in Space in the next 100 years, which will already include asteroid mining, interplanetary travel and national security defense mechanisms.
The Rocket Corporation GmbH aims to invest in the construction of Space Terminal One, Heavy Rockets and Commercial Space Station to support the independence of Europe, Middle East and Asia.
When speaking of technological dreams like reusable rockets, interplanetary travel and asteroid mining, we might feel that we are too ahead of ourselves and we do not have a right to speak of such aspirations. How far we are allowed to envision the future ?
We often forget that during the first space race, it was the brilliant engineers from Germany who pioneered the Gas generator/Open-cycle engines on the V2 Rocket. This type of engine is currently used in on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket.
Or when Soviet Union and the USA competed to develop higher performance rocket engines it was Soviet engineers who in the 1950s pioneered the development of oxygen-rich staged combustion cycle engines. Despite the challenges posed by handling higher oxygen levels, these engines offered significant advantages compared to the fuel-rich engines which were being developed in the United States at the time. The Soviet engines boasted higher performance and greater efficiency, thanks to their ability to generate larger pressure and achieve more efficient fuel combustion.
Recently, SpaceX has developed the most efficient engine yet, a full flow staged combustion engine for their Starship Rocket. But this technology was actually invented by the Soviet Union scientists in the 1960s with their RD-270 engine. This engine boasted higher efficiency than the F1 engine used in the Apollo missions, however, due to limited funding and the political climate in the Soviet Union at the time, the RD-270 had to rely on toxic fuels and, as a result, never made it to space. Interestingly, Soviet-designed engines were until 2021 used on rockets launched by the United Launch Alliance.
Now, once again, we find ourselves in a situation where increasing political tensions are hindering our pursuit of the ultimate engineering dream: achieving full reusability, high performance, and independence in the new Space Era.
The Rocket Corporation is seeking to work together with engineers from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East to build Space Terminal One, a commercial spaceport that will launch the next generation of rockets and space stations.
The Private European companies working in the space sector today have been established in years 2016 to 2023.
At this moment, there is no company working on the development of large rockets, likely due to the limited budgets available for funding such programs by individual nations or their national investors.
Even the most prominent new rocket companies exploring alternative solutions for rocket launch are pursuing the launch of small to medium - sized satellites.
Although targeting the growing cube-sat market as a commercial goal can be an appealing selling point to investors for newly established rocket companies, the time required to develop and test small-sized rockets is comparable to that for large-sized rockets. This is because the technology needs to be redesigned from scratch.
These companies will face huge challenges in shifting to heavy rocket programs since at this moment they need to spend years to finalize their small-sized rocket designs and begin generating returns on investments for their investors, who will be anticipating income from the promised small cube-sat cargo. However, in the next 10 to 20 years, Chinese and American heavy rocket manufacturers will be already too far in their heavy rocket developments to reach.
Our small rocket endeavours and innovative rocket launch ideas, while interesting, are not on the technical roadmap for surpassing the end game of China or the USA.
We are looking for engineers who have theoretical or practical experience with the developments of medium to heavy class rockets. We are welcoming all nationalities. The first multinational team of between 20 to 30 persons will form the core of the team. The process of selection and hiring requires around 1 year time including the visa procedure.
For persons outside of European Union it is possible to start working remotely, or part time, until we proceed to manufacturing.
Formation of a core engineering team. Preparation of detailed technical schematics and project roadmap for subsequent phases.
Design and development of medium-size rocket.
Manufacturing of medium size rockets, equipped for satellite deployment and space station module launches.
Development of heavy-lift rocket systems, tailored for space station assembly and interplanetary expedition capabilities.