First successful flight: This revolutionary hypersonic engine finally takes off from ground

Venus Aerospace has achieved a groundbreaking milestone: the company successfully launched a rocket from the ground using its ...
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World’s first rotating detonation rocket engine lands $91M to scale production

Houston-based Venus Aerospace has raised $91 million in Series B funding to expand production ...
Defense One

Defense Business Brief: Rocket engine startup eyes production; NATO Summit Day 1; Anduril’s first NATO contract

Rocket engine startup Venus Aerospace only has one major test flight under its belt, but the company just raised $91 million ...
SlashGear

Researchers Have Created A Working Rotating Detonation Engine

A team of researchers in Florida, working with the United States Air Force, claim to have built and tested an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine. This type of engine uses ...
New Atlas

NASA's rotating detonation rocket engine posts record test results

NASA believes the rotating detonation engine could be the future of deep space travel, and it's getting strong results in prototype testing. Combustion engines are tried and true, and however angry ...
Hackaday

rotating detonation engine

Liquid-fuelled rocket engine design has largely followed a simple template since the development of the German V-2 rocket in the middle of World War 2. Propellant and oxidizer are mixed in a ...
autoevolution

NASA's Rotating Detonation Engine Screams Like an Alien When Fired for Record Burn

If we are to truly become a solar system-wide civilization, we really need to rethink the means of propulsion that are currently taking us off our own planet. After all, current rocket engines are ...
autoevolution

New Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Flies on Winged Drone for the First Time

The rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) is the new Holy Grail of the aerospace industry. The way such a technology works promises unprecedented speeds for aircraft and spacecraft, prompting ...
AeroTime

Venus Aerospace raises $91M for high-thrust rotating detonation rocket engine

Venus Aerospace, a Houston, Texas-based startup, announced on July 8, 2026, that it has closed a $91 million Series B funding ...
Popular Science

DARPA wants a new long-range weapon propelled by rotating explosions

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Ars Technica

The company building a rotating detonation engine is pushing the tech forward

Venus Aerospace conducted its first powered flight last month, reaching Mach 0.9 with a drone. The 8-foot-long vehicle was dropped from an Aero L-29 Delfín aircraft at 12,000 feet and flew under the ...
NextBigFuture

Rotating Detonating Engines Can Enable Practical Hypersonic Planes

The main problem holding back reusable hypersonic planes is that traditional ramjet engines become very inefficient over mach 2 while hypersonic engines do not work well below mach 4. There is the ...