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Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Named After Indian Weapon Sets Record for Burn Time

If we really are to fulfill all our dreams of expanding our reach into the solar system, we definitely must come up with new rocket engine technologies for our spaceships. The industry knows this, and ...
SpaceNews

Venus Aerospace raises $91 million to scale rocket engine technology

WASHINGTON — Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based propulsion startup developing rocket engines for hypersonic flight and space transportation, said July 8 it raised $91 million in a Series B funding round ...
TechCrunch

Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine

Build a new kind of rocket engine and the world will beat a path to your door. Or at least that’s how it’s worked out for Venus Aerospace and its Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE), an ...
Scientific American magazine

See Astrobotic pull off a major test of its ‘ring of fire’ rocket engine

A new generation of space rockets is inching closer to launch. Private space company Astrobotic recently revealed it carried out a successful test of two of its rotating detonation rocket engines ...