Dr. Ajay P. Kothari

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  Dr. Ajay Kothari of Astrox Corporation, a TiE-DC Emerging Entrepreneur Member was featured in an article on the US space program in an India Abroad article on April 25, 2008.
  
  Dr. Kothari and his team have made significant breakthroughs in hypersonic and wave-rider technology.

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  Published on: 3/19/2007    Last Visited: 3/19/2007  

  Ajay Kothari, president of Maryland-based Astrox Corp., an engineering firm providing a range of research and development services for aerospace, aviation and software systems, said that the innovative research solved a fuel-mixing problem for combustion at 'Mach 6 and above'.
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  'Hypersonic space planes could revolutionise the transportation industry, much like jet planes did for subsonic commercial aviation 50 years ago,' Kothari said.

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  Ajay Kothari, president of Maryland-based Astrox Corp., an engineering firm providing a range of research and development services for aerospace, aviation...

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  Ajay Kothari, who attended the event and is president of Astrox Corp., echoed the panelists' description of the aerospace industry as an up and coming economic powerhouse. His company is designing a hypersonic plane that could travel from the East Coast to Australia in under two hours.
  
  "It's not just about creating 100 more jobs in the next two months," he said of the industry.

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  Astrox President Ajay Kothari says the engine is shaped like a funnel, with air entering through a circular opening.The design, the company says, develops more thrust and less heat than a rectangular scramjet engine.Kothari and his team designed an injector resembling a small aerodynamic wing.Fuel is injected just at the wake where the air, which is moving at supersonic speeds, crosses the injector.
  
  Researchers have tested the design at Mach 2 in the university's supersonic wind tunnel.Kothari plans to test the technology in a small model space plane."Hypersonic space planes could revolutionize the transportation industry, much like jet planes did for subsonic commercial aviation 50 years ago," Kothari says.

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  Dr. Ajay Kothari of Astrox Corporation, a TiE-DC Emerging Entrepreneur Member was featured in an article on the US space program in an India Abroad article on April 25, 2008.
  
  Dr. Kothari and his team have made significant breakthroughs in hypersonic and wave-rider technology.

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  We also had Dr. Ajay P. Kothari, President and CEO of Astrox Corporation (www.astrox.com 301-948-4646) in the studio.Ajay is also a "rocket scientist" whose company is involved in coming up with some novel designs for hypersonic planes and rockets for access to space.Recently, several newspapers including Maryland Gazette, IndiaAbroad, IndiaWest have done articles on their commercial space-plane idea.Dr. Kothari and Dr. Griffin did their PhD in aerospace engineering at UMD at the same time under Professor

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  Astrox President Ajay Kothari said the engine is shaped like a funnel, with air entering through a circular opening, which develops more thrust and less heating than a rectangular scramjet engine.Kothari and the research team designed an injector resembling a small aerodynamic wing, which enters the engine at an angle in the same direction the air is flowing.

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  "Hypersonic space planes could revolutionize the transportation industry, much like jet planes did for subsonic commercial aviation 50 years ago," said Astrox President Ajay Kothari."Seemingly remote parts of the world would be nearly as accessible as a two-hour drive."
  
  Mechanical engines don't work at hypersonic speeds.Moving parts simply cannot work at 3,500-7,500 miles-per-hour, or 5-10 times faster than the speed of sound, according to Kothari.Instead, hypersonic jet engines typically employ rectangular, duct-like engines with no moving parts, also called scramjets.Air enters the engine inlet at hypersonic speeds and is compressed to supersonic speeds, after which it is mixed with fuel and ignited.The air leaves the engine traveling faster and at a higher pressure than when it came inâ€"creating thrust.
  
  But the large surface areas created by rectangular designs generate tremendous heat transfer into a vehicle, requiring extra fuel loads just to cool areas around the engine chamber."Not only are the large surface areas inefficient, but the extra fuel also adds significant volume and weight to the aircraft," said Kothari, who holds a patent on an inward-turning vehicle design.
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  Kothari, Gupta, Yu and Balar designed an injector resembling a small, aerodynamic wing, which enters the engine at an angle in the same direction the air is flowing.
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  Eventually, Kothari envisions consumer planes taking off horizontally from large airports and reducing 20-hour flights to as little as 1.5 hours.

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  Dr. Ajay P. Kothari, President and CEO, founded Astrox in 1987.Dr. Kothari has been the project leader on a number of projects for the NASA, Air Force, Navy, Army, as well as McDonnell Douglas Corporation (now Boeing).

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