The Orbital Launch Air Cannon is engineered to cut launch costs by 41% — no fuel burned at liftoff.
Only 2.5% of a rocket's liftoff mass reaches orbit. The rest is fuel burned just to carry more fuel. Every aerospace company lives under this constraint — until now.
Orbital Launch Air Cannon
Propels rockets to Mach 2+ before engines ignite — no fuel burned at liftoff, and launch costs cut by 41%.
How OLAC Works
Solar-powered compressors pressurize the cannon.
Sequential pressure zones accelerate the vehicle through the barrel.
Vehicle exits at Mach 2+ at approximately 3 km altitude — zero fuel burned.
Engines ignite with full fuel reserves intact.
Projected figures based on computational fluid dynamics simulation (Ansys Fluent). Prototype in design phase.
Read the technical overviewEvery launch provider — SpaceX, Rocket Lab, ESA — faces the same cost structure. OLAC sits upstream of all of them, infrastructure they all need.
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