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A Dazzling New Detonation Engine Could Ignite Hypersonic Travel

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Engineers at Tsinghua University in Beijing , China have developed a new engine that harnesses the chaotic power of explosions.

The ram-rotor detonation engine (RRDE) works by using a spinning rotor with blades in a stationary casing.

The blades handle the compression, detonation combustion, and expansion in the channel between them.

This allows the engine to achieve “higher thermodynamic efficiency”.