Project Nero

Project Nero is Portal Space's main focus - building Norway's first liquid-fueled rocket. 

Our rocket engine, Reodor, runs on liquid oxygen and ethanol. The project started in February 2020 and the first successful hot-fire was achieved on July 17th, 2021. Reodor will power our rocket which will compete in the European Rocketry Challenge in 2022.

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Reodor - Technical Specifications

Design Specifications
Thrust: 3500 N

Mass Flow Rate: 1.47 kg/s

Specific Impulse: 245 s

Oxidizer - Fuel Ratio: 1.33

Combustion Chamber Pressure: 20 bar

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Test specifications

Average Thrust: ~2400N

Average Chamber Pressure: ~19 bar

Our Advisors

Rasmus Arnt Pedersen

Mechanical engineer at Copenhagen Suborbitals and chairman of DanSTAR

Even Dahl

Co-founder and CEO of EnableMagic, co-founder and COO of Insj

Ketil Røed

Associate professor in electronics at the Univeristy of Oslo.

Anders Brennhagen

Doctoral research fellow in chemistry at the University of Oslo