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Pam Melroy, a former NASA astronaut and spaceflight expert, has joined Venus Aerospace's board as the company advances its revolutionary rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE), which offers a 15% efficiency increase and could transform space travel and defense applications, including high-speed global travel and lunar/Mars landers.
Venus Aerospace has successfully tested a revolutionary Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine, which uses supersonic explosions for propulsion, potentially enabling hypersonic vehicles to operate like conventional aircraft and transforming high-speed travel for civilian and military applications.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has successfully tested a 3D-printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) for over four minutes, generating more than 5,800 pounds of thrust. The test aimed to understand how to scale the combustor to different thrust classes, supporting various engine systems and missions, including landers and deep space burns. The RDRE offers improved design efficiency, enabling the transportation of more mass and payload further into deep space, aligning with NASA's Moon to Mars vision. NASA's Glenn Research Center and Venus Aerospace are collaborating to scale the technology for higher performance.