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NASA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Rocket That Could Get Us to Mars Faster (www.sciencealert.com)

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After setting foot on the Moon, the next destination for humankind is Mars, which presents a whole new set of challenges in speedy, long-distance space travel.

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[-] Nighed@sffa.community 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is a fancy aerospike engine right? The rotating detinations gives it higher chamber pressure and therefore better ISP or something?

I will look for the Scott Manley video on this later (I think it was him?) Edit: also a Real Engineering one that explains the aero-spike nozzle

Anyone have the ISP of this experiment to compare to other engines?

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

You know what gets even better ISP? NERVA

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Should be the rotating detonation engine.

[-] Nighed@sffa.community 3 points 10 months ago

Video is here (3 years old)

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[-] Nighed@sffa.community 3 points 10 months ago

Real engineering also did one (actually better than Scott's I think)

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