The Aviationist

Pratt & Whitney Successfully Tests Rotating Detonation Engine

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 efficiency ...
New Atlas

World-first "impossible" rotating detonation engine fires up

A Florida team working with the US Air Force claims that it's built and tested an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine, which uses spinning explosions inside a ring channel to ...
NextBigFuture

BREAKTHROUGH Venus Aerospace Rotating Detonating Engine With Air for Hypersonic Drone by end of 2025

Venus Aerospace, making hypersonic flight a reality for commercial and defense purposes, has achieved the first long-duration engine test of their Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) in ...
Wired

Rotating Detonation Engines Could Propel Hypersonic Flight

Yesterday, Vladimir Putin presented his country with a belated Christmas present: the Avangard hypersonic missile. According to Russian media, it's capable of reaching Mach 20. And if its ability to ...
NextBigFuture

First Flight of Venus Aerospace BREAKTHROUGH Rotating Detonating Engine

Venus Aerospace had the first-ever U.S. flight test of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE)—a next-gen propulsion technology that’s been theorized for decades, but never flown… until now. The ...
Ars Technica

For the first time in the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight

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 ...