Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based startup developing hypersonic propulsion technology, completed what it calls the first U.S. flight test of a next-generation rotating detonation rocket engine on May ...

Researchers in China have introduced a new hypersonic engine concept by integrating a ramjet with a rotary detonation engine. A team at Tsinghua University in Beijing created a new design known as the ...

Texas-based startup Venus Aerospace clears a major hurdle in its new reusable hypersonic engine technology. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Venus Aerospace, a leader in hypersonics deep-tech startups aimed at revolutionizing high-speed flight, has successfully achieved ignition of its ‘VDR2’ engine. VDR2 offers a single engine solution ...

Venus Aerospace, making hypersonic flight a reality for commercial and defense purposes, has achieved the first long-duration engine test of their Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) in ...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (RTX) (NYSE: RTX) business, has completed a series of tests on its rotating detonation engine (RDE) work with the RTX ...

Detonation is a supersonic combustion wave, characterized by a shock wave driven by the energy release from closely coupled chemical reactions. It is a typical form of pressure gain combustion, ...

A US-based propulsion company has successfully launched and flown a new rocket powered by a unique rotating detonation engine. Although relatively small by rocket standards, the test could pave the ...

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 ...

I assume that if the detonation/flame front is itself rotating within the combustion chamber/channel/however one chooses to contain and direct it, then the expanding shockwave from the exhaust plume ...

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ISTR that the SR-71 was about a foot longer at speed than at rest. They definitely leaked fuel on the ground. And I don't have the unclassified POH for it handy, but ISTR that the SR-71 did the 'dipsy ...