Venice Aerospace, a US -based proposition company, said Wednesday that it had completed a short flight test of its rotating datastery rocket engine in New Mexico’s Space Port America.
The company’s chief executive and co -founder, Sisi Dugby, described the flight as “historic”. It is believed that this is the first US -based flight test of an idea that has been discussed academically for decades, it is a rotating explosion rocket engine. This concept has been tested in other countries earlier, but never with a high thrust engine.
“It works beyond the lab, proving the engine, brings the world closer to the future where hypersonic travel – crosses the world in less than two hours,” Dugby told ARS.
A fast flying
The company has just released limited information about the test. Small rockets, which run by the company’s 2,000 pounds of stressed engine, were launched from a rail in New Mexico. The vehicle flew for about half a minute, and as planned, the sound barrier did not break.
Governments around the world have long been interested in roaming the explosion engine technology as it has the potential to significantly increase fuel performance in a variety of applications, ranging from naval carriers to rocket engines.
Unlike the traditional rocket engine, in which a highly stressed property and oxidizer are injected into the combustion chamber where they built a burning and passionate path plum, a rotating explosion engine is different in which the explosion wave travels around the circular channel. It is maintained by fuel and oxidizer injection and produces a shockwave that travels at a supersonic speed.