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Meet the Startup Reinventing Aircraft: Astro Mechanica 🛩️ Tune in to the latest Tech Optimist Podcast as CEO Ian Brooke shares how their supersonic innovation could make on-demand, low-cost flights a reality. Discover how Astro Mechanica aims to be the “Tesla of aircraft

This week's S³ features Astro Mechanica: a new startup ushering in the electric-adaptive age — where supersonic, electric jets cross the Atlantic. This is the first time their new engine has ever been shared publicly.

“This is a system that will enable the sub-thousand dollar ticket from San Francisco to Tokyo in 3.5 hours.” - Astro Mechanica‘s Ian Brooke Timestamps: 0:00 - Welcome to Hard Reset 1:18 - Astro Mechanica HQ 2:46 - An affordable, electric plane 3:16 - The tech powering AM 4:25 - A

Many thanks to Jeff Bezos and the MARS team for inviting me out for a talk and demo! And especially for dinner under a Saturn V rocket, 10/10 experience

The best part about fundraising is when it ends and I can get back to building. This raise marks the end of just working on engines and the start of building airplanes — couldn’t be more excited

IN NEWS: Ian Brooke on raising $27.1M for Astro Mechanica "We are building the world's first trans-Pacific non-stop supersonic aircraft." "We can do California to Taiwan in under 4 hours, without refueling." "It's not hard to make a thing fly, it's hard to make it safe and put

Some extremely exciting news for the Astro Mechanica Team: I'd like to welcome Greg Krauland as the new Head of Aircraft! Greg was previously Chief Engineer of XB-1 at Boom Supersonic, where he led the development from a clean sheet to its first flight. He brings decades of

We're proud to welcome Rick Brisbin to the team as our new VP of Defense Systems and Strategy. Rick led Maritime Autonomous Air Power & Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) efforts at Anduril, and directed the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program at Northrop Grumman.

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It’s great having a new partner who might know a thing or two about flight operations. Looking forward to working with United Airlines to bring long-range, efficient supersonic flight to market!

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Excited to announce MaC Venture Capital's investment into Astro Mechanica backing the amazing Ian Brooke in a round headlined by United Airline Ventures. axios.com/2025/08/20/uni…

We’re thrilled to welcome Sriram Rallabhandi to our Airframe team as Senior Aerodynamics Engineer. Sriram brings nearly two decades of experience from NASA, where he specialized in computational tool development for supersonic aircraft from conceptual through preliminary design.

We're very proud to welcome Dan Witte to the team! At Meta, he led a 220-person org responsible for the full stack of advertiser-facing products that generated the majority of company revenue. Now, he'll be building out flight software to power our supersonic aircraft.

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It's never been a better time to build hardware in San Francisco Major thanks to Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 and his team for their support as we stand up our new factory in SoMa this year