NEW Aerospace ENGINE Destroys ROCKETS

It would be good for you to take us one level further/deeper. a) materials b)fluid dynamics c)logic/computer control d) instability sources of continuous D .........

Also interesting to see that Aerospike-type nozzle is being tested alongside! As an Engineer who loves CFD and Aerospike, I would love to see what the future holds!

RDE looks like it oculd be the next step in Aerospace engines. Computational fluid dynamics, as my favorite Physics prof at the U of A used to say, don't forget to carry the one.

Great video! I just learned about this for the first time, but this short video really covers all the bases regarding limitations of the pulse detonation approach (shock wave noise and vibration), along with the possibility space for future developments (AI-developed materials for continuous pulse detonation commercialization; rotary detonation, essentially a continuous series of timed detonations). Mach 5 is a nice dream but the materials to support that using pulsed detonation still need to be invented!

Thanks for taking the time to make this video! It makes a very complex subject more understandable! Well done, Cheers 👍

I’m a little late to see this… but I have some experience working on/with linear aerospike engines. I worked on the Lockheed Martin X-33 (the prototype technology tester for the LM VentureStar), and I spent a lot of time with the good people at Rocketdyne, who were developing the XRS-2200 Linear Aerospike engine. I have always wanted to see this concept in use, and I attended most of the XRS-2200 tests that were performed at Stennis in Mississippi. These engines were very, very promising. To me this was the most important technology to be tested on the X 33 as everyone knows the X 33 was canceled in March 2001, but we did at least get working linear aerospike engines and we had some data on those. The difference that I can see between the engines you’re talking about (with a pulse detonation in a circular motion around the periphery of the ramp) and a circular aerospike engine will be that a circular aerospike engine would have all the thrusters operating simultaneously, and continuously, rather than pulses - moving around the periphery in a circular, tornadic fashion. I like this idea, except I would be more comfortable if the thrust were more symmetric about the center of the circular ramp. In other words, why couldn’t we have two detonating simultaneously across the center of the circular ramp from each other? I’m always a little uncomfortable about any kind of nonaxisymmetric thrust on a rocket engine, even if the pulses moved very quickly - there would still be some thrust vectoring (TVC) that might be an issue. I think this is something we would want to avoid. The concept of aerospike engines with the external ramps is a very old one and it’s back to the 1950s. There was an instance of somebody (and I can’t member who) that put a circular aerospike engine on a barge… and they were able to get some good data from that test. Great video, thanks for posting this! Cheers from New Orleans. 🥃

The YouTube creator Integza made a really fascinating video with some scientists who're researching the rotary detonation. The video demonstrates the force and heat produced from relatively small RDE. Pretty cool video that I would suggest to anyone interested.

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If they really get an RDE working, ready for production, it's going to change more than just orbital economics. It will change aviation as a whole. Definitely one to watch.

I like the format of your video - no lengthy intro, dense technical info unlike dumbed down pop science channels. Love it!

Great Videos, we appreciate you taking your time to produce them !!

Fascinating. I've been following this concept for some time. I am curious whether you can express the output in terms of Isp ( Specific Impulse ).

i am happy youtube suggested this video to me, i never heard about an RDE or detonation supersonic wave. makes me want to know more about these topics :)

Cool, I always wondered about these. Looking forward to more now.

So much great info in such a concise presentation! 🙂

Rotation detonation ,never heard of it,amazing and the alloy,thanks

Very interesting rotational explosions that create some awesome thrust. I was thinking about linear explosions to create a constant thrust.

It’s ironic that the one main flaw in the internal combustion engine, the air flow around the edge of the bore to piston, is the bases of this technology. Love it and love your content a lot.

Great video! Was expecting something different from the title but pleasantly surprised the space war hasn't started... yet

They'll be fine for thrusters but long burns will hit the cooling barrier that confounds aerospike engines: The cooling demand rises by the cube and the cooling ability rises by the square. The NASA demo engines used a cooling method that's too heavy for flight. Once again Earth just barely lets us into orbit, but we're getting better.