{"id":197027,"date":"2024-10-04T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/rotating-detonation-ramjet-engine-for-hypersonic-speeds-to-fly-in-2025"},"modified":"2024-10-04T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:24:08","slug":"rotating-detonation-ramjet-engine-for-hypersonic-speeds-to-fly-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/rotating-detonation-ramjet-engine-for-hypersonic-speeds-to-fly-in-2025","title":{"rendered":"Rotating detonation ramjet engine for hypersonic speeds to fly in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kmzGfU2U_b8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When is an empty tube not an empty tube? When it\u2019s a ramjet that uses rotating detonation technology to propel aircraft at hypersonic speeds. A case in point is <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/aircraft\/supersonic-drone-detonation\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Venus Aerospace\u2019s<\/a> new Venus Detonation Ramjet 2000 lb Thrust Engine (VDR2).<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest hurdles that need to be cleared in making hypersonic flight practical is building engines that are capable of sustained thrust.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, hypersonic systems are mainly based on glide bodies that are boosted to high speed and altitude by rockets and then accelerate to over Mach 5 by gliding back to lower altitudes. However, if you want to build airliners that can fly from San Francisco to Tokyo in one hour, you need something more like a jet engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is an empty tube not an empty tube? When it\u2019s a ramjet that uses rotating detonation technology to propel aircraft at hypersonic speeds. A case in point is Venus Aerospace\u2019s new Venus Detonation Ramjet 2000 lb Thrust Engine (VDR2). One of the biggest hurdles that need to be cleared in making hypersonic flight practical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}