Escape Dynamics
| Private | |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Defunct | December 31, 2015 |
| Headquarters | Broomfield, Colorado, USA |
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Key people
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Dmitriy Tseliakhovich (CEO and CTO) Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (President and COO) Andrew Lee (General Counsel) Richard F. Schaden (Chairman of the Board) |
| Website | www |
Escape Dynamics, Inc. was a Colorado-based technology company that operated 2010–2015 focused on bringing to market single-stage-to-orbit reusable electromagnetically powered spaceplanes.
Although the company demonstrated operation of a prototype thruster with an end-to-end (grid to thruster) sequence of operation of an externally powered propulsion system in 2015, the company ceased operations at the end of 2015 as a result of insufficient funding to complete the requisite R&D process to complete development.
The company was founded by Richard F. Schaden and a team of California Institute of Technology scientists headed by Dr. Dmitriy Tseliakhovich. Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux joined the founding team as the President and COO in 2014.
Members of the Board of Advisors included Dr. Peter Diamandis of the X Prize Foundation, Mr. Gonzalo Martinez of Autodesk, Professor Harry Atwater of Caltech, Mr. Jonathan Knowles of Autodesk, Mr. Ingvar Petursson of Nintendo of America, Joseph Meyerowitz (co-founder of Escape Dynamics), and Mr. Shaun Maguire (co-founder of Escape Dynamics) of Caltech and Qadium Inc.
The company ceased operations at the end of 2015, commenting in a statement on their website that, "while microwave propulsion is feasible and is capable of efficiency and performance surpassing chemical rockets, the cost of completing the R&D all the way through operations makes the concept economically unattractive for our team at this time."
The key technology areas Escape Dynamics focused on were: i) externally powered aerospace vehicles; ii) efficient, reliable and safe wireless energy transfer; and iii) highly efficient high power microwave sources. Systems the company developed included high power microwave sources (gyrotrons) used to generate microwave energy required to power aerospace vehicles, high-speed steerable phased array antennas for millimeter-wave long distance wireless energy transfer, and electromagnetically powered propulsion systems.
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