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LEAP 71 has successfully test-fired a 20kN liquid methane rocket engine designed autonomously by its Noyron AI model.
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LEAP 71 has successfully test-fired a 20kN liquid methane rocket engine designed autonomously by its Noyron AI model.

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Originally reported by iDarts

LEAP 71 has successfully test-fired a 20kN liquid methane rocket engine designed autonomously by its Noyron AI model. Manufactured in copper alloy in just three weeks, the engine achieved 93% combustion efficiency without human-led design iterations. This shift from manual CAD to physics-based computational engineering collapses development cycles from years to weeks. Generating flight-ready hardware directly from performance data signals a systemic move toward autonomous aerospace manufactur...

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