Astrobotic's Detonation Engine Fires 4,000 Pounds of Thrust in Wild Test

Astrobotic's Detonation Engine Fires 4,000 Pounds of Thrust in Wild Test

The cutting-edge propulsion system could be used to power rockets to the Moon and beyond.

Astrobotic Sets New Mark for Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines with Five-Minute Steady Burn

Astrobotic engineers went all out on their Chakram prototypes, doing a series of hot-fire tests that dwarfed anything previously done with this type of hardware. Two rotating detonation engines together clocked over 470 seconds of operation throughout eight runs at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, one of which lasted a whole 300 seconds [...]