Rotating detonation engines In 2020, we saw the first of an "impossible" new breed of rotating detonation engines (RDEs) fire up on a test bench. These machines leave the slow, controllable world of ...

Advancements in automobile engine technology have continued to rise exponentially, specifically in the past decade, where efforts have been focused on alternative engine technology. The passenger ...

The Solid Fuel Ramjet (SFRJ) and the Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet (DMRJ) are seeing rapid success as the U.S. hikes spending and development of hypersonic weapons. GE Aerospace has shed more light on ...

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 ...

Engineers have tested NASA’s first full-scale rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE). The next-generation design could power humanity’s next phase of deep space exploration. Engineers conducted the ...

Venus Aerospace has achieved a groundbreaking milestone: the company successfully launched a rocket from the ground using its air-breathing rotating detonation engine (RDRE). This hybrid technology ...

There was a time when Stephen Hawking’s predictions were greeted with skepticism. (Not surprisingly, as it also happened to Newton). However, over the decades, they have been proven—almost all of them ...

A rotary engine, often referred to as “Wankel”, owes its name to German inventor Felix Wankel, who first developed the concept. Though he initiated the design, it was the Japanese automaker Mazda that ...

In the near century since Robert Goddard, the founder of modern rocketry, fired the first liquid-fuel rocket into the sky, rocket scientists worldwide have favored liquid-fuel engines to power ...