Motors & Generators

Novel Electric Machines for Electric Propulsion and Power Generation

LaunchPoint® has developed a family of high efficiency and high specific power electric machines for the demanding, high-reliability applications associated with high performance aircraft.

Our electric motors and generators are an axial-flux (“pancake”) design based on dual-Halbach-array magnet rotors and ironless stators. This combination of design features allows for an extremely high efficiency motor or generator with excellent SWaP.

The motors and generators can be air-cooled and create their own airflow so no additional cooling system or fan is required. Liquid-cooled configurations are also available depending on the application.

LaunchPoint’s electric machines have patented features that can eliminate most of the common failure modes of permanent magnet machines enabling fail-operational high reliability applications.