State of the Company | 2022
December 6, 2022
As 2022 wraps up we wanted to highlight progress made in the year and the roadmap ahead.
Hermeus founders AJ Piplica, Glenn Case, Skyler Shuford, and Mike Smayda present the 'State of the Company'.
The year started strong with a $100 million series B funding round. We've grown our world class team to nearly 100 employees and massively built out our facilities to support our leading edge manufacturing capabilities.
This confluence of people and hardware has led us to some major technical milestones. We demonstrated turbojet to ramjet mode transition with our engine, Chimera, and finalized the design for our first vehicle, Quarterhorse. Quarterhorse will reach Mach 4+ speeds and fly in 2024.
We also now have our first peek at Darkhorse, an uncrewed aerial system that will serve defense and intelligence customers. Darkhorse will have multi-mission flexibility, full reusability, and be capable of sustained hypersonic flight – a capability no country in the world has.
We're developing each of these platforms with our sights set on making commercial hypersonic flight a reality with Halcyon, a passenger aircraft capable of traveling 125 transatlantic routes at Mach 5 speeds. That's New York to London in 90 minutes.
About Hermeus
Hermeus is a startup developing hypersonic aircraft to radically accelerate air travel. At Mach 5, more than twice the speed of the supersonic Concorde, passengers will be able to cross the Atlantic in 90 minutes. On the path to hypersonic passenger aircraft, Hermeus is partnering with government agencies including the US Air Force and NASA to develop a series of autonomous aircraft that derisk the technology and solve urgent national security challenges. These products provide the data and confidence necessary to certify, produce, operate, and maintain safe and comfortable commercial aircraft. Hypersonic aircraft have the potential to create trillions of dollars of new global economic growth per year, unlocking significant resources that can be utilized to solve the world’s greatest problems.