What makes Boom Supersonic special is not just that it is working toward supersonic flight or revolutionary power generation, but that it's trying to do so with the same fundamental technology and the same team.
Yesterday, the company took another giant leap forward when it unveiled its first complete supersonic turbine core, which it is shipping this week to Boom’s test site at Colorado Air and Space Port in Watkins, Colorado.
The company also unveiled its 2GW turbine “Superfactory” in South Denver—the “world’s most advanced turbine factory,” according to the turbine maker. Boom is bringing in more than 75 CNCs and coordinate-measuring machines (CMMs) with the end goal of making up to 50 superpower engines per year, from raw materials to completed turbines in one facility.
The Superfactory, which is already operational and making turbine parts, is expected to create up to 500 new jobs.
Finally, the company is also developing what it calls the “world’s most advanced all-digital foundry,” capable of casting the turbine blades and vanes. The first single-crystal components are expected to ship in 2027. The hope is to make turbine blades and vanes from custom superalloys through an all-digital process that requires no tooling.
Boom says Superpower, its 42-megawatt natural gas turbine, will generate power for AI data centers and begin deliveries in mid-2027. By 2028, the company would like to reach a cumulative annual production rate of 1-gigawatt by building 25 turbines. By 2029, the expectation is 2-GW via 50 turbines.
Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic said, "It's time to go big.” The company appears to be doing just that by shipping a fully assembled advanced turbine core less than a year after the program launch.
The “Sprint Core” is the first prototype turbine core, which will power both Superpower and Symphony, the engine for Boom’s Overture supersonic airliner. The core has more than 1,000 sensors to measure temperature, pressure, strain, timing and vibration as well as instrumentation on support systems like fuel and lubrication. The full test setup reportedly includes some 2,000 sensors that Boom will use to calibrate its engineering tools and optimize the production Superpower design. The company expects to fire the core for the first time sometime before Thanksgiving.
The $150 million Superfactory spans about 200,000 square feet across two buildings in Centennial, Colorado, and is now hiring design engineers, manufacturing engineers, machinists and technicians.
