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NASA’s Rotating Detonation Engine Could Change Space Travel Forever

Using a design once deemed too unstable to harness, NASA successfully tested a 3D-printed rotating detonation engine in 2023, marking a major breakthrough in propulsion. By exploiting supersonic ...
New Atlas

World's first rotating detonation rocket engine flight ... maybe

In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...
NextBigFuture

First Flight of Venus Aerospace BREAKTHROUGH Rotating Detonating Engine

Venus Aerospace had the first-ever U.S. flight test of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE)—a next-gen propulsion technology that’s been theorized for decades, but never flown… until now. The ...
RealClearScience

A Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Takes Flight

A US-based propulsion company, Venus Aerospace, said Wednesday it had completed a short flight test of its rotating detonation rocket engine at Spaceport America in New Mexico. The company's chief ...
ExtremeTech

Venus Aerospace Recruits Pam Melroy, Shuttle Astronaut and Former NASA Deputy Admin

Venus Aerospace has brought in veteran pilot, space shuttle astronaut, and NASA administrator Pam Elroy to sit on its board of directors amidst a major expansion at the company. Following the ...