This is why interest in detonation engines for both gas turbines in the energy sector and for rocket propulsion applications has increased so significantly in recent years. Particularly promising is ...

Rotating Detonation Engine rig test ... Unlike conventional gas turbines or rocket engines that rely on deflagration—a slower, controlled combustion process—RDEs operate on the principle ...

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 ...

A new family of engines aims to harness the power of detonation shockwaves to create ever-faster rocket engines. One of these engines—known as a rotating detonation engine (RDE)—has shown some ...

Venus Aerospace has completed the inaugural test flight of a drone fitted with its "rotating detonation rocket engine" (RDRE) — accelerating it to just under the speed of sound. The company ...

Houston-based Venus Aerospace, meanwhile, is developing a rocket-based combined-cycle propulsion system that combines a rotating detonation rocket engine with a ramjet.

This marks the first successful Rocket-Based Combined Cycle test. The engine architecture was unveiled in October at UP.Summit and combines the high thrust and efficiency of the Rotating Detonation ...

A novel type of jet propulsion, a rotating detonation engine (RDE), has been successfully tested by Pratt & Whitney. The development is highly significant for the U.S. military, with RDE ...

Rotating detonation rocket engines (RDRE) have the potential to be more efficient and safer than traditional rocket systems. Supercomputer simulations are helping guide their design.

Thrust propulsion testing and characterization of the UCF rotating detonation rocket engine is shown in this photo. Credit: University of Central Florida For use with coverage of the University of ...

Rotating Detonation Engines First developed in the 1950s at the University of Michigan, these rocket engines use powerful and chaotic detonations, self-propagating thanks to hypersonic shockwaves ...

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 ...