The Rotating Detonation Engine being developed by Pratt & Whitney has no moving parts, which reduces complexity and costs, and could help enable high-speed, long-range flight with increased ...

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 ...

Over the years [Integza] has blown up or melted many types of jet engine ... a journey towards a very interesting engine design, known as the rotating detonation engine. This will be very ...

Pratt & Whitney is planning further development of rotating detonation engine (RDE ... volume—a more efficient process than current jet engines in which combustion occurs as a subsonic ...

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 ...

By comparison, the last commercial supersonic jet, the Concorde, traveled at Mach 2 ... Venus has ground tested a new rotating detonation engine that could go from 0 to 6 times the speed of sound.

Pratt & Whitney will accelerate its work on rotating detonation engine (RDE) technology, as its programme to develop the advanced propulsion capability yields results. The company has completed a ...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has completed a series of tests on its rotating detonation engine (RDE) work with the RTX ...

The engine architecture was unveiled in October at UP.Summit and combines the high thrust and efficiency of the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) with the high-efficiency cruise of a Ramjet in ...