Swiss Startup Plans Lunar Lander Powered by Rotating Detonation Engine
Stellar Alpina, a Swiss startup, plans a lunar lander called Morpho and an orbital transfer vehicle named Monarch, both using its rotating detonation engine. The company, backed by a CHF 3.5 million pre-seed round, says its Genziana engine completed eight hot-fire tests and later over 150 tests across 23 configurations.