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A new rocket engine designed by an AI successfully completed a hot fire test lasting 11 seconds. LEAP 71, a computational engineering firm, just tested an AI-designed aerospike rocket engine, delivering 5,000 Newtons of thrust during an 11-second hot fire test. Powered by a mix of cryogenic liquid oxygen and kerosene, the engine was entirely created by LEAP 71’s advanced AI system, Noyron, which autonomously generated the design. Using 3D printing, the engine was manufactured as a single monolithic copper piece, eliminating complex assembly procedures. This marks a significant step forward in leveraging AI and additive manufacturing for rocket engine development. Aerospike engines, known for their efficiency across varying atmospheric pressures, have been studied since the 1950s but remain underutilized in spaceflight. LEAP 71 addressed a major challenge of aerospike engines cooling the central spike, which is exposed to extreme exhaust temperatures of 3,500ºC by using intricate cryogenic oxygen channels and kerosene-cooled combustion chambers. Following the success of this groundbreaking test, the company plans to refine its AI model and conduct more tests in 2025, aiming to demonstrate the practicality of aerospike engines for modern spacecraft.

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