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This startup’s hypersonic rocket could finally go head to head with SpaceX

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 ...
ExtremeTech

Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Survives First Subsonic Flight Test

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 ...
Space.com

Watch NASA test revolutionary new rotating detonation rocket engine (video)

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 ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Detonation Engine Revs Up for 4 Minutes in Breakthrough Test

The new propulsion system is powered by supersonic technology and can be used for spacecraft journeying from the Moon to Mars. Reading time 2 minutes NASA just put its new propulsion system to the ...
NextBigFuture

BREAKTHROUGH Venus Aerospace Rotating Detonating Engine With Air for Hypersonic Drone by end of 2025

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 ...
ExtremeTech

NASA's Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Aces New Test

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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 ...
autoevolution

Mach 9 Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Survives Its First Long-Duration Test

The aerospace industry is on the verge of being completely transformed. Partly responsible for that are the many startups working on technologies so out of this world that they might completely ...
Seeking Alpha

RTX's Pratt & Whitney completes series of rotating detonation engine testing

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 ...
autoevolution

New Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Flies on Winged Drone for the First Time

The rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) is the new Holy Grail of the aerospace industry. The way such a technology works promises unprecedented speeds for aircraft and spacecraft, prompting ...
Yahoo

Watch NASA test revolutionary new rotating detonation rocket engine (video)

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venus Aerospace's rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE). Houston, Texas-based Venus Aerospace, a hypersonics pioneer aimed at ...