NASA believes the rotating detonation engine could be the future of deep space travel, and it's getting strong results in prototype testing. Combustion engines are tried and true, and however angry ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) examined in this study was constructed following the design guidelines of Bykovskii et al., featuring an annular combustion chamber with an outer diameter ...

Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have designed and tested a key component for rotating detonation engines (RDEs), an emerging combustion technology that could help make ...

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 ...

GE and Lockheed Martin plan to get around this by accelerating the missile using a rotating detonation engine, which uses a supersonic wave of detonating fuel that runs about inside an open-ended ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GE Aerospace says that it has demonstrated an advanced propulsion concept the blends a dual-mode ramjet together with rotating ...

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 ...

Venus Aerospace is advancing its rotating detonation rocket engine, a propulsion technology designed to improve efficiency for future hypersonic and space vehicles. Venus Aerospace is advancing ...

Venus Aerospace conducted its first powered flight last month, reaching Mach 0.9 with a drone. The 8-foot-long vehicle was dropped from an Aero L-29 Delfín aircraft at 12,000 feet and flew under the ...

Newswise — Michaela Hemming, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is using a NASA Space Technology Graduate ...