Texas startup making history with revolutionary rocket engine

Texas startup making history with revolutionary rocket engine

A Texas-based startup just made aviation history. The company completed the first U.S. flight test of a next-generation rocket engine that could be transformational for both hypersonic weaponry and commercial travel. Based in Houston, the minds behind Venus Aerospace recently took their rotating detonation rocket engine, or RDRE, and demonstrated its airworthiness during a test flight at Spaceport America in New Mexico. Venus’ co-founder and Chi…