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Successful Engine Test Brings Australian Space Launch Capability a Step Closer

An Australian research consortium has successfully tested a next-generation propulsion system that could enable high-speed flight and space launch services. The team’s rotating detonation engine, or RDE, is a major technical achievement and an Australian first. It was designed by RMIT University engineers and is being developed by a consortium led by DefendTex, with researchers ...

Troy Oakes

RDE engine firing.