Discovered Solid State Hydrogen Storage based on Metal Hydride technology

We brought in a new team of four people who had worked on the American Antares rocket project in 2018 together with Ukrainian engineers from Yuzhmash, responsible for the first stage and fuel tanks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares(rocket), https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Антарес(ракета-носитель)). The technology originally came from the Soviet Union – like the NK-33 engines later modified into AJ-26 and the Yuzhnoye/Yuzhmash design heritage – and then migrated into the Antares project. Based on this legacy, we adapted the same tech for our Stellar Jet, creating a hydrogen storage tank (essentially a ”hydrogen battery”) that is light, cost effective, efficient, and non-explosive. We believe it remains the only truly viable solution for hydrogen use in aviation, since other options are either inefficient, heavy, costly, or dangerous, while our tank eliminates all of these problems. The analysis of eVTOL batteries and the current state of hydrogen aviation pushed us to search for an alternative, and we discovered a solid-state hydrogen metal hydride. With the rocket science experience of our team, including their Antares background, we were able to develop a solid-state hydrogen “battery.” Our first validation of this concept took place in November 2024.