Particularly promising is the so-called rotating detonation engine in which detonation waves propagate continuously around an annular combustion chamber at high frequency and thus generate ...

Hypersonic travel, defined as speeds exceeding Mach 5, has tremendous potential to reshape global mobility and logistics.

In the five short years since focusing on the concept, Andrew Duggleby, chief technology officer and co-founder of the ...

This is a journey towards a very interesting engine design, known as the rotating detonation engine. This will be very interesting to see, if he can get it to work. Supersonic exhaust plume with ...

However, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has recently completed a successful test of a different type of rocket, known as a rotating detonation engine. The engine relies on an ...

Pratt & Whitney has announced the successful testing of a rotating detonation engine (RDE) — a new type of jet propulsion system that could enable high-supersonic, long-range missile for the US ...

Categories include pulse detonation engines, rotating detonation engines and standing wave, or oblique wave detonation engines (OWDEs), and while these are still all at experimental stages ...

NASA’s latest engine prototype defies traditional rocket design by relying on continuous detonations to propel spacecraft. Known as a rotating detonation engine (RDE), this technology dramatically ...

More compact and agile hypersonic rocket engine propulsion system, supported by a NASA SBIR, will be demonstrated in the ...

Venus Aerospace, the startup building the world's most advanced engine system for hypersonic flight, today announced the successful completion of a NASA-supported technological advancement—one that ...