Enabling hypersonic defence of critical infrastructure.

Hypersonic propulsion and flight systems for defence, designed for mass production at low cost.

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01 Why Torden

  1. Expensive and slow.

    Hypersonic defence today costs too much and takes too long to build in numbers.

  2. No longer ballistic.

    Threats that used to fly a predictable arc now manoeuvre at hypersonic speed.

  3. Built for volume.

    We develop hypersonic propulsion and flight systems designed for mass production at low cost.

02 How we build

How we develop high-performance parts.

An AI‑driven engine turns requirements into production-ready parts.

Search diagram Three parts. Each starts with twelve candidates, cut to six, then three, then one. The three winners join into one assembly. The assembly is tested, and the results loop back to new candidates until it meets the requirements. Validation Part APart BPart CSpec12631Assembly Search diagram Three parts. Each starts with twelve candidates, cut to six, then three, then one. The three winners join into one assembly. The assembly is tested, and the results loop back to new candidates until it meets the requirements. Validation Part APart BPart C12631Assembly

  1. 01 Specify

    Loads, envelope, cost and process, fixed up front.

  2. 02 Generate

    Candidates for every part, in parallel.

  3. 03 Simulate

    Every candidate is tested against the spec.

  4. 04 Eliminate

    Each round removes what falls short.

  5. 05 Pick

    One design per part, ready for its process.

  6. 06 Validation

    Test, gather data and feed it back. Loop to Generate until it meets the requirements.

Designed to be made.

The engine shapes every part around the process that will make it, and around how the parts go together.

  1. 01 Made for its process

    Shapes a machine can produce without special tooling.

  2. 02 Precise only where it counts

    Tight tolerances at the interfaces, nowhere else.

  3. 03 Easy to assemble

    Few parts, few fasteners, fits that locate themselves.

  4. 04 Three parts, one assembly

03 Team

Engineers who have flown rockets.

Our founding team comes from Propulse NTNU, the student rocket team at NTNU, where we designed, built and launched liquid-fuelled rockets.

Fossekall · Liquid · launched
Heimdall · Liquid · launched

Launch footage: Propulse NTNU, used with permission.

04 Contact

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Investors and defence partners: mail goes straight to the founder.

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Adrian Wilhelmsen · Founder

adrian@torden.ai

05 Engineers

Build hypersonic hardware with us.

There is no job board. Send what you have built to adrian@torden.ai.