Venus Aerospace has completed the inaugural test flight of a drone fitted with its "rotating detonation rocket engine" (RDRE) — accelerating it to just under the speed of sound. The company ...

Rotating detonation rocket engines (RDRE) have the potential to be more efficient and safer than traditional rocket systems. Supercomputer simulations are helping guide their design.

Venus Aerospace, a leader in hypersonics deep-tech startups aimed at revolutionizing high-speed flight, has successfully achieved ignition of its ‘VDR2’ engine. VDR2 offers a single engine solution ...

Venus Aerospace and Hermeus are the modern day companies that are truly using the small and effective engineering team approaches and methods of the Clarence “Kelly” Johnson led (1943-1975) Lockheed ...