PD AeroSpace

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PD Aerospace

New R&D center of PD Aerospace in Nagoya.
Native name	PDエアロスペース株式会社
Romanized name	Pī Dī Earosupēsu Kabushiki-gaisha
Company type	KK
Industry	Space tourism
Founded	30 May 2007; 17 years ago (2007-05-30) in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Founder	Shuji Ogawa
Headquarters	Nagoya , Japan
Key people	Shuji Ogawa (President)
Number of employees	5
Website	www.pdas.co.jp

PD Aerospace (Japanese: ＰＤエアロスペース株式会社, Hepburn: Pī Dī Earosupēsu Kabushiki-gaisha), often abbreviated PDAS, is a Japanese space tourism company based in Nagoya founded in 2007 by Shuji Ogawa.^[1] The "PD" in the company's name stands for "pulse detonation".^[2] PDAS is developing a suborbital spaceplane to carry two pilots and six passengers using a hybrid of jet and rocket power. Initial tickets are planned for ¥ 14,000,000 (about $125,000 USD as of April 2017) eventually lowering to ¥400,000 (about $3,600).^[3][4]

PDAS plans to develop a hybrid engine that produces jet and rocket thrust, using pulse detonation jet and pulse combustion rocket modes.^[5] To reduce the cost of development and keep the vehicle low-cost, PDAS plans to use commercially available hardware, instead of custom-designed parts.^[1] H.I.S. and ANA own 10% and 7% of the company, respectively.^[3][6]