I’d like to think of the E-4B as kind of like a flying backup Pentagon, potentially more secure than the Pentagon,” Pentagon reporter Ryan Pickerel once said. To defense and aviation aficionados, the ...

A US-based propulsion company, Venus Aerospace, said Wednesday it had completed a short flight test of its rotating detonation rocket engine at Spaceport America in New Mexico. The company's chief ...

His vision was for these Orion-type spacecraft, powered by nuclear pulse detonation engines, to take American astronauts to Mars by the 1960s, Saturn by the 1970s, and perhaps even nearby stars ...

The engine uses detonation combustion technology and features a modular, compact design. “This engine has significant commercial potential in the field of high-speed flight within near-space ...

By integrating the awesome power of nuclear fission into the internals of an axial flow turbojet engine, the DOD, AEC, and the Air Force envisioned fleets of heavy bombers that could fly for ...

The notion of employing detonation to enhance aerospace propulsion systems has been explored for several decades. In a recent breakthrough, a novel detonation engine known as the Ram-Rotor ...

Chinese scientists proposing a new concept for a hypersonic engine with improved continuous thrust, lower start-up speeds and enhanced performance have inserted a ramjet into a rotary detonation ...

Meanwhile, fission, which is the science that powers all nuclear reactors today, is sort of the opposite: a neutron particle slams into a larger atom, such as Uranium-235, and splits it into two ...

On first examination, then, some of the plausible reasons for the Sarmat’s repeated test failures would suggest that Russia’s efforts to shorten the missile’s boost phase created complications which ...

Nuking an asteroid. To simulate a potent nuclear explosion in space, Moore and his team harnessed the most powerful X-ray generator on Earth.. Nuclear bombs generate a massive amount of X-rays ...