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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.
Venus Aerospace, a company co-founded by Andrew and Sassie Duggleby, is working on building a hypersonic aircraft that can travel at Mach 9, or more than 11,000 kilometers an hour. The aircraft will take off and perform a 10-minute boost with its rocket engine, sending it to an altitude of approximately 50 km. The company is using a new type of engine based on "rotating detonation" to increase fuel efficiency and has recently achieved liquid peroxide and Jet A detonation. The company has also begun testing drones to refine the shape of its plane.