Boom Supersonic’s propulsion testing team has reached a key milestone before firing up the Symphony engine for the first time.
The engineers have put a single fuel nozzle from the Symphony engine through a series of ignition tests inside a high-temperature, high-pressure chamber to capture data which demonstrate that:
- Symphony’s ignitor can reliably light under challenging conditions
- Key elements of the combustor are performing as expected
- Ignition-related risks are reduced going into the next testing phase
The results will also help validate critical pieces of Symphony’s combustor design, set up the company’s next wave of hot-section testing and be used in future combustor design decisions.
