Co-Founder
Hypersonix Launch Systems
Michael Smart has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering. Along with David Waterhouse he co-founded Hypersonix Launch Systems in 2019. He worked at NASA’s Langley Research Centre in the US for more than 10 years, and was a senior member of the Centre for Hypersonics at University of Queensland (UQ) for 15 years.
Michael is a world leader in scramjets and hypersonic technology. His driving passion is designing and building re-usable scramjet engines and hypersonic launch vehicles with a green, low cost, highly reliable technology, to disrupt the aerospace and aviation market.