US EditionVenus Aerospace Successfully Tests Next-Gen Rocket Engine at Spaceport America
- On May 14, 2025, Venus Aerospace, based in Houston, successfully conducted the inaugural U.S. Airborne trial of its innovative rotating detonation rocket engine at a facility in New Mexico known as Spaceport America.
- The event followed five years of development focused on solving pressure gain combustion and validating the engine under real flight conditions.
- Venus’s engine combines the RDRE with its VDR2 air-breathing detonation ramjet to enable aircraft to take off from runways and sustain hypersonic speeds above Mach 6 without rocket boosters.
- The 2,000-pound thrust engine successfully launched on the first attempt, validating performance and system integrity while following a night of heavy winds, with CEO Sassie Duggleby calling the flight "historic."
- This milestone represents a breakthrough in American aerospace, supporting Venus's goal to restore U.S. Leadership in hypersonic flight and enable global travel in under two hours.
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Venus Aerospace Completes Historic U.S. Hypersonic Engine Flight Test
/PRNewswire/ -- Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based startup pioneering the future of high-speed flight, announced today it successfully completed the first U.S....
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