The World’s First Rotating Detonation Engine Flight Test
“Spacecraft engines still use the 20th-century rocket engine technology.”
This statement would look inconsistent at first glance, especially in the face of all the news about the new space age that we are on the verge of. However, this quote is the daring truth. Let explain the current situation.
When today’s propulsion technologies are followed, it is obvious that different solutions are offered for different needs. Current aerospace companies have combinations in technology development based on changing fuel choices, pressurization method, combustion chamber, and nozzle geometry. Given an overview of all these technologies, they all function in deflagration mode. Deflagration is the name given to the subsonic combustion. And this company has been trying to increase efficiency in deflagration mode by using different combinations to make bits of iterations. The same logic is trying to make structural changes to engine design, trying to increase efficiency. However, Deflagration mode is already at the theoretical limits of thermodynamical efficiency. And it is hard to imagine that the same propulsion technology will open new gates for our enduring adventure of exploring space.
In contrast, detonation occurs at supersonic speeds, and detonation engines can significantly boost humanities’ efforts in space. DS Engine has the potential to change all propulsion technologies fundamentally, from Mars missions to all space missions. As Detonation Engine offers an increase in around 30% efficiency, they will play an essential role in exploring space’s unknowns. And we can see advancements in capabilities ranging from establishing bases quickly and cheaply to traveling the furthest distances in space at a more incredible speed.
“Detonation Engines Are Thermodynamically The Most Ideal Engines For Space Missions”
At Detonation Space Inc., as a team, we have started our theoretical works on detonation engines’ possibilities in 2018. Our efforts became tangible as we designed the Lundet-7 engine.
DS Inc.’s work suggests that Lundet engine, which works much more efficiently than a conventional rocket motor, promises to increase it’s functional load-carrying capacity up to 30 times in space missions. Detonation Engine also offers a significant reduction in fuel needs and carry more useful payloads on missions.
The proposed system has the potential to decrease costs on space missions significantly. On the other hand, it is also possible to reach higher speeds due to this engine’s supersonic operation.
Believed that detonation engines are the future of space technology and we are getting ready to fire their engine in 2022. And now is the time for the world to abandon the propulsion technologies of the 20th century and switch 21st-century technology.
