A superconducting quench drive converts stored magnetic energy into kinetic energy through a choreographed sequence of stator rings — accelerating a payload to hypersonic velocity with no physical contact, no chemical propellant, and no capacitor banks.
THE BREAKTHROUGH
We solved the problem that stopped everyone else.
For four decades, electromagnetic launch failed for four reasons — and they were matters of physics, not engineering effort. EML's patent-pending approach addresses all four.
The Force Problem
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The Wear Problem
A fully non-contact, magnetically levitated armature means no rails, no erosion, and no rebuild between shots — the prerequisite for a reusable system.
The Energy-Storage Problem
Each superconducting stator stores its own energy. That eliminates the banks of capacitors that made prior coil launchers impractical.
The Switching Problem
Patent-pending zero-point switching turns each stage off at the instant its current crosses zero — the high-speed, high-current solution induction and coil launchers never had.
CREDIBILITY
Advised by the people who built the field.
Electromagnetic launch is not a new ambition — it is a hard problem the United States has invested in for decades. EML's bench includes the people who led that work.
Dr. Harry Fair
DARPA, SDIO; founding Director, U.S. Army Institute for Advanced Technology
Dr. Jerald Parker
Los Alamos National Laboratory; AFRL; Peter Mark Medal for EM launch
Dr. Graham Candler
National Academy of Engineering; hypersonics & CFD
Dr. Mehmet Erengil
Hypersonic & electromagnetic-launch weapon systems
USE CASES
Built for the mission, first.
Counter-UAS & Layered Air Defense
Missile-class reach at guided-gun-munition cost and cadence: the magazine depth to defeat mass drone and missile attacks affordably.
Hypersonic Testing
Ground-based, repeatable hypersonic test at higher velocities and a fraction of the cost of flight test — without a wind tunnel.
Assured Access to Space
High-cadence, propellant-free, inland launch: resilient access that doesn't depend on coastal ranges or chemical-propellant logistics.
SPACE - STRATEGIC
Lunar launch · 1.7 km/s escape
Earth-to-orbit raw materials
In-space logistics & delta-V
Asteroid materials transfer
PROGRAM
From principle to program.
The program is sequenced so the central technical risk is retired before any large capital is committed. A successful Pathfinder demonstration is the inflection point.
PHASE 1 · ≈ $2M
Build & demonstrate Pathfinder
Fabricate and operate the Weijers Pathfinder; prove zero-point switching in hardware. Proof of concept.
PHASE 2
Scale & integrate
Higher-velocity, multi-stage demonstrator; thermal, maglev, and cadence integration.
PHASE 3
Application prototype
Mission-representative prototype at operational cadence. Retires durability & cost risk.
PHASE 4
Operational system
Range and program integration with a service customer.
$2M completes the Pathfinder and answers the only question that matters first. If it works — and the physics says it will — the capital to scale follows.
Current status: Weijers Pathfinder in design · fabrication begins on funding.