Tag: Rotating

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

Houston, Texas-based Venus Aerospace, a hypersonics pioneer aimed at developing reusable hypersonic flight platforms, recently achieved one of the longest sustained tests of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) in collaboration with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. A rotating detonation rocket engine combusts its fuel and oxidizer in a circular motion inside a ring-shaped channel. […]