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🔥🚀 What if an engine could turn explosions into continuous propulsion? NASA is exploring rotating detonation engine technology, where a powerful detonation wave races around a circular combustion chamber instead of burning fuel in a conventional, steady flame. The result is an extremely rapid combustion process that can potentially...

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Orbital Radar 的头像
Orbital Radar3 天前

One of those propulsion concepts that sounds like science fiction until you realise the physics is very real. 🚀 Rotating detonation engines could be a major step forward if the efficiency gains scale reliably. Turning a continuously travelling detonation wave into usable thrust is an incredible piece of engineering. 🔥🛰️

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Interesting Radar3 天前

An explosion just running laps around the engine is such a weird concept

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Stellarix3 天前

Weird but best concept

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Interesting Radar3 天前

Yeah, it’s an awesome idea. Really hope this one works out

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Colorado_Rick3 天前

In The Mote in Gods Eye creating a ship using nuclear explosions was key to defeating the attacking aliens. The idea has been around for a while. Thanks for the good read Larry Niven and Jerry Pournel.

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2d Peasant 𝕏3 天前

Combusting chemical fuel IS continuous detonation. That's how chemical rocket engines work

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星のジプシー3 天前

H3ロケットが デトネーション(爆発燃焼)ロケットエンジンなんだよね。

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Stellarix3 天前

The H3 uses the LE-9 engine, but calling it a “detonation engine” is misleading. 🚀 LE-9 is an expander-bleed, staged-combustion-derived liquid engine using conventional combustion—not a rotating or pulse detonation propulsion system.

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Vensaro3 天前

Sounds like a rotary engine to me. Been used in cars for decades.

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aaron3 天前

it looks amazing from this angle, love that ring

Stellarix 的头像
Stellarix3 天前

Same here bro 😅

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DD3 天前

cool

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DeaconAR3 天前

NASA needs better aluminum foil...

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The Chuck3 天前

when I was sandblasting/painting, to clean out a 20ft + pipe (12'-24') , with a air line blow againt the wall at an angle and the air would move out dust and sand all the way, blowing straight woul only get about 2 ft

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SpaceXtcy3 天前

I was thinking of something like this but for harnessing the sun's rays and turning into power.

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Stellarix3 天前

That concept is basically solar power taken to the next level. ☀️⚡ Instead of relying only on conventional panels, concentrating sunlight or using advanced photovoltaic materials could capture more energy from the same area. The engineering challenge is converting that intense input efficiently without excessive heat losses.

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Helgrim3 天前

The internal combustion engine has been turning explosions into propulsion for over 100 years.

Stellarix 的头像
Stellarix3 天前

And the fascinating part is how much the basic idea evolved. 🔥⚙️ Modern engines don’t simply harness explosions—they precisely control pressure, combustion timing, airflow, and heat to convert chemical energy into useful mechanical work with remarkable efficiency.

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xjet3 天前

RDEs are great... until you discover how much ancillary gear is involved in such an engine. Power to weight is pretty pitiful in comparison to a conventional gas-turbine engine (the latter requiring far less ancillary stuff).

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Stellarix3 天前

That’s the trade-off people often miss. 🔥 RDEs can offer impressive pressure-gain potential, but valves, injectors, cooling, fuel delivery, controls, and structural requirements can erase some benefits. The real comparison is system-level mass, efficiency, reliability, and scalability—not chamber performance alone.

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xjet3 天前

Yeah, I spent time working with PDEs where the same problems arise. Thats why my xjet engine is focused on minimal peripheral support gear but higher combustion efficiencies than a traditional pulsejet engine -- and a bypass system that increases total mass-flow.

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Elliott Floyed3 天前

It’s absolutely incredible .. like detonations become ball bearings on a flame looper . It’s really impressive

Stellarix 的头像
Stellarix3 天前

Yes bro you are absolutely right

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RocketMan_993 天前

RDE? Sounds like my last Minecraft rocket. But seriously, the efficiency could be huge if they solve the cooling. That copper chamber looks wracked. Want to see a longer burn.

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Stellarix3 天前

RDEs are fascinating because they aim to extract more performance from combustion itself. 🚀🔥 But cooling is the brutal engineering challenge—detonation waves create extreme heat fluxes. A longer-duration burn would be the real test of whether the hardware can survive repeated operation.

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DiscoCowboy3 天前

Looks like Star Wars

Toni Mousley 的头像
Toni Mousley3 天前

Clever

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Hello my name is Human3 天前

It looks incredibly cool 😎

Stellarix 的头像
Stellarix3 天前

Yes NASA always hit different 💕💕

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Matt Seal3 天前

What's that sticker made from

Stellarix 的头像
Stellarix3 天前

From NASA legacy 😄

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