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Russia’s MiG-41 Project: Hype, Hope, and the Reality of Next-Gen Air Combat

Russia’s ambitious MiG-41 project has whipped the world into curiosity with suggestions of near-space flight capabilities and ...
NextBigFuture

China Makes Most Powerful Detonation Engine for Hypersonic Flight

Scientists at the forefront of hypersonic weapons research in China say they have a more powerful revolutionary air-breathing engine. The “revolutionary” air-breathing engine could lift an aircraft ...
SpaceNews

Simple, fuel-efficient rocket engine could enable cheaper, lighter spacecraft

It takes a lot of fuel to launch something into space. Sending NASA’s Space Shuttle into orbit required more than 3.5 million pounds of fuel, which is about 15 times heavier than a blue whale. But a ...
Ars Technica

For the first time in the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight

A US-based propulsion company, Venus Aerospace, said Wednesday it had completed a short flight test of its rotating detonation rocket engine at Spaceport America in New Mexico. The company's chief ...