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 ...

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 ...

NASA has contracted Momentus to use its Vigoride orbital service vehicle as a testbed to demonstrate a rotating detonation rocket engine in space in 2026. The rotating detonation rocket engine is ...

Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based startup developing hypersonic propulsion technology, completed what it calls the first U.S.

GE and Lockheed Martin have demonstrated a new rotating detonation engine ramjet design in a series of tests that show significant potential for efficiency gains. If developed into a full missile ...

Andrew Duggleby, co-founder and CTO of Venus Aerospace, discusses their groundbreaking propulsion technology. They have a ramjet integrated with a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) which they ...

Engine maker GE Aerospace and defence manufacturer Lockheed Martin have teamed up to test a novel ramjet propulsion system for powering hypersonic flight. The pair say they completed a series of ...

The rotating detonation ramjet engine provides a more compact, lightweight design than standard engine designs, and uses a continuous, self-sustaining detonation wave. GE Aerospace and Lockheed Martin ...

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 ...