Interesting Engineering

Students test rotating rocket engine with 20,000 blasts per second for space missions

Students at Switzerland's ETH Zurich tested a rotating rocket engine capable of producing 20,000 detonation waves per second.

Goodbye to conventional rocket engines: Chakram uses supersonic detonation waves and just survived a 300-second hot-fire test

Astrobotic’s Chakram engine survived a five-minute detonation burn that could reshape future rocket propulsion.