When was the last time you thought about how a rocket moves through space? The average person is likely to know the basics of how planes direct themselves through the atmosphere, but rockets?

Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based startup developing hypersonic propulsion technology, completed what it calls the first U.S.

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Welcome to Edition 8.27 of the Rocket Report! If all goes well this weekend, NASA will complete a wet dress rehearsal test of the Space Launch System rocket in Florida. This is the final key test, in ...

A US-based propulsion company, Venus Aerospace, said Wednesday it had completed a short flight test of its rotating detonation rocket engine at Spaceport America in New Mexico. The company’s chief ...

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a winner of the 2025 ...

In what may be a world first, Venus Aerospace has, for the first time in the US, successfully flown a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that uses supersonic explosions to create thrust. Such ...