A new family of engines aims to harness the power of detonation shockwaves to create ever-faster rocket engines. One of these engines—known as a rotating detonation engine (RDE)—has shown some ...

While classic combustion in rocket engines takes place at constant pressure or even with a slight loss of pressure, the pressure increases significantly during detonation. A rocket engine based on ...

Skip ahead if you want to dive straight into the new ram-rotor detonation engine! First came the failed flappy wings of da Vinci's ornithopters, inspired directly by birds. Soon after came ...

A new family of engines aims to harness the power of detonation shockwaves to create ever-faster rocket engines. One of these engines—known as a rotating detonation engine (RDE)—has shown some ...

Chinese scientists proposing a new concept for a hypersonic engine with improved continuous thrust, lower start-up speeds and enhanced performance have inserted a ramjet into a rotary detonation ...