HOUSTON—NASA has cleared Aerojet Rocketdyne through the agency’s critical design review process to begin production of the Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial (NEXT-C) propulsion unit for future ...

The rotating detonation rocket engine is powered by supersonic technology, in a breakthrough that could revolutionize the way humans travel in space. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes As NASA gears ...

NASA has contracted Momentus to use its Vigoride orbital service vehicle as a testbed to demonstrate a rotating detonation rocket engine in space in 2026. The rotating detonation rocket engine is ...

TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop Gambit, an ...

Using a design once deemed too unstable to harness, NASA successfully tested a 3D-printed rotating detonation engine in 2023, marking a major breakthrough in propulsion. By exploiting 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 ...