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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new propulsion milestone has been reached as Astrobotic successfully tests its experimental Chakram rotating detonation rocket engine, achieving a record 300-second continuous burn during a campaign ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Orlando startup JetX is planning a configurable eVTOL "flying car" chassis, and testing a quiet, modular propulsion system that vectors thrust from bladed or bladeless fans without tilting them, ...

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