The Exploration Company (TEC) will license LEAP 71's Noyron RP Large Computation Model to support the development of its next-generation rocket engines.
The two companies have been working together since 2023 and have now signed a five-year, renewable collaboration agreement.
TEC is developing a portfolio of spacecraft and propulsion systems, including the Nyx reusable orbital resupply capsule and the Typhoon, a high-thrust, full-flow staged combustion rocket engine.
Noyron RP will be integrated into TEC's internal computational engineering program, with designs set to be validated through its standard analysis and test approach. The Noyron RP technology encodes first-principles physics, engineering logic, production constraints, and empirical feedback into a coherent system for the generation of rocket engine designs. It autonomously generates components from abstract performance specifications to manufacturable hardware.
Hélène Huby, Founder and CEO of TEC, said: “TEC was founded on agility, building and testing fast while staying rigorous on engineering validation. We have been working with LEAP 71 since 2023 and are now taking the next step. Under this agreement, we will use Noyron RP for propulsion component geometry generation as part of our internal computational engineering program. The goal is to broaden the design space we can explore and support faster iteration across successive test campaigns.”
Josefine Lissner, Co-Founder and CEO of LEAP 71, added: “Most space companies still rely on labour-intensive geometric design workflows. Noyron enables engineers to adopt a code-first, high-level approach. Over the past two years, we have validated Noyron RP by hot-firing different rocket engine architectures at a cadence of weeks.”
Earlier this month, LEAP 71 unveiled an additively manufactured aerospike rocket engine that can generate 20 tons (200 kN) of thrust, developed in partnership with HBD.
