Venus Aerospace

Lunch Pail 100 Company for a third year in a row!  This award honors Virginia Tech-led companies that are experiencing rapid growth and making substantial contributions to their industries. Our Co-Founders - CEO Sarah "Sassie" Duggleby and CTO Andrew Duggleby are both Hokie graduates. We thank Lunch Pail Ventures for this honor. The selection process for the 2024 Lunch Pail 100 involves an evaluation by the Lunch Pail Ventures Leadership Circle, considering submissions and nominations from successful Hokie-led companies around the country. Venus was chosen because our employees exemplify "innovation, resilience, and entrepreneurial success". 

We can't WAIT for this year's Summit UP.Partners 🚀

In 1939, #NationalAviationDay was created to celebrate the development of aviation, coinciding with Orville Wright’s Birthday. At Venus, we find it fitting, since we continue to engineer the future of aviation, that we honor today by taking a moment to appreciate our recent accomplishments. This spring, our inaugural supersonic drone flight not only got us data, but it allowed us to successfully demonstrate our flight controls, stability and one leg of our ultimate rotating detonation rocket engine propulsion system. We can’t wait to share what we’re doing next. Happy National Aviation Day to our team, and to those who continue to propel us all into the future. https://lnkd.in/gnmeDa4F

Please join us in extending a warm Venus welcome to Daniel Morris MBA, PMP our new Vice President of Growth. Dan is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience across industry and government. He was pivotal in development of next generation technologies for the US Navy Long Range Hypersonic Strike (Conventional Prompt Strike) and testing advanced capabilities at Missile Defense Agency. We're thrilled to welcome Dan to the Venus team as we continue to unlock the hypersonic economy.

Enjoying the ride together goes beyond the walls of Venus Aerospace. We were pleased to host educators from around the globe through partnership with Limitless Space Institute (LSI), whose mission is to inspire and educate the next generation to travel beyond our solar system and to research and develop enabling technologies. These educators heard from our executive leaders about the mission and vision of Venus and enjoyed guided tours of our operations around the themes of Design, Test, and Build. By bringing inspiration and innovation back to their classrooms, we know their students will soon be our future engineers!

Congratulations to our summer interns on their impressive final project presentations! Earlier this week, each intern shared insights on their contributions to their departments, the lessons they learned, and their future plans. A big thank you to Vaishnav, Luigi, and Brycen for their hard work and dedication. At Venus, hosting interns is a core part of our values and our mission of shaping the future of aviation. To join us, candidates must express a passion for aerospace along with the essential departmental skills. We prefer rising juniors or seniors and the selection process is highly competitive. This summer we welcomed three interns from more than 800 applicants. If you’re interested in our summer program, applications open in late winter or early spring. We can’t wait to meet our next group of talented interns for 2025!

Come visit Venus at the Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) as a proud member of the Texas Pavilion, booth #3140 through July 25!

For the second year in a row, Venus Aerospace has ranked on the prestigious NATSEC 100 list which is released annually by Silicon Valley Defense Group. The list encompasses venture backed, national security focused and dual use startups. Each company, including Venus, is developing technologies that are essential to the continued security of democracies around the globe. We appreciate our partnerships with leading Venture Firms as we continue to engineer the future of aviation. 

“I’m passionate about who we are, how we build, and how we treat our people. Yes, we get to build great technology, but if we build great technology on the backs of our employees, and people have sacrificed their families and their lives, then I think we’ve failed.” Published today, Bonnie Marcus of Forbes interviews our co-founder and CEO, Sarah "Sassie" Duggleby, delving into Venus' groundbreaking technology, unique culture, and innovative approach to building an aerospace company.

ICYMI: Venus Aerospace was selected for a NASA SBIR continuing our work on Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines (RDREs). In this project, we will work with NASA to develop optimized nozzle contours by leveraging our proven RDRE hardware. Venus continues to advance RDRE research and development to solve commercial, civil, and defense missions. We will first transition this flight-proven model into a reusable hypersonic flight system to meet U.S. Defense needs for high-speed flight tests. You can read more about the rest of the NASA SBIR selections here: https://lnkd.in/gv9JfffQ