When it comes to the emerging UAM (urban air mobility) sector, some companies focus on developing specific eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing), and others on developing vertiports. But a ...

The new propulsion system is powered by supersonic technology and can be used for spacecraft journeying from the Moon to Mars. Reading time 2 minutes NASA just put its new propulsion system to the ...

Space startup Astrobotic put its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) to the test for the first time, demonstrating a potentially groundbreaking technology that generates thrust by supersonic ...

The US National Science Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to a team of engineers led by Lehigh University to tackle one of the biggest obstacles to deploying a new class of rocket engines that ...

Lehigh University researcher Natasha Vermaak leads multidisciplinary project— supported by a new $2 million NSF grant—investigating rotating detonation engine materials The ability to reliably order ...

The University of New Mexico’s Mechanical Engineering Department has begun a $1.6 million U.S. Office of Naval Research-funded project to develop materials for high-frequency propulsion systems. Led ...

GE Aerospace lifted the curtain on its comprehensive hypersonics program at its Research Center in Niskayuna, demonstrating what is believed to be a world-first hypersonic dual-mode ramjet (DMRJ) rig ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has joined forces with Raytheon to advance the development of a groundbreaking air-breathing rotating detonation engine called Gambit. Unlike ...

Rotating detonation engine could be up to 25% more efficient than traditional jet engines. This could make airplanes and missile faster or with longer range. Smaller weapons could reach the same ...

Tests of a secret new tactical missile powered by a rotating detonation engine at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, California, appear to show evidence of significant recent ...

With the successful launch of Artemis I behind it, NASA has been doubling down on efforts to make deep space travel – and it's reported future trips to the Moon and Mars – easier to achieve. We've ...

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