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The future of Propulsion Systems
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- 2016first covered
- 28 Mar 2025latest update
- 2linked technologies
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- Leap71 fire up their powerful AI designed rocket engineIndustry and manufacturing
- China’s new Ram-Rotor Detonation engine pushes beyond Mach 5Transport and mobility
- Two Chinese Sixth Gen fighter jets tear across the skies in ChinaSecurity and privacy
- This revolutionary new hypersonic drone engine has no moving partsTransport and mobility
- World’s first SSTO Aerospike aircraft to fly later this monthSpace
- A new propellantless thruster just made enough thrust to overcome Earths gravityEarth and energy
- A ground breaking Aerospike SSTO prototype crashes before engine testEarth and energy
- Paralysis used to be for life, but it isn’t any longer, and this and other breakthroughs are just the start of a new era of medicine.Transport and mobility
- Maglev Aero unveils its ultra quiet revolutionary eVTOL propulsion systemTransport and mobility
- GE resurrects the turbo prop to cut aircraft fuel consumption by 20 percentTransport and mobility
- NASA’s hypersonic Rotating Detonation Engine passes first crucial testsTransport and mobility
- Hermeus’s first of a kind Chimera engine switches from supersonic to hypersonicTransport and mobility
- Jetopera’s bladeless eVTOL aircraft targets 0.8 MachTransport and mobility
- Rolls Royce successfully runs a converted aircraft engine on HydrogenEarth and energy
- China’s hybrid supersonic weapon flies like a missile and swims like a torpedoSecurity and privacy
- Open fan engine prototype helps Airbus cut 20 percent of aircraft emissionsEarth and energy
- Airbus uses the giant A380 to test its first prototype Hydrogen jet enginesEarth and energy
- This new silent drone flies using ionic propulsion and nothing but ionised airTransport and mobility
- Worlds first oblique detention engine could unlock Mach 17 aircraftTransport and mobility
- First of a kind satellite attempts to maintain low earth orbit without any propellantEarth and energy
- Revolutionary rocket that eats itself for fuel gets UK government fundingSpace
- DARPA selects Gryphon to build world’s first ever nuclear rocket engineEarth and energy
- Prototype zero emission jet engine generates thrust using nothing but air and electricityEarth and energy
- A US startup just built a giant centrifuge to fling rockets into spaceTransport and mobility
- A DNA motor to power future nanomachines just set a world speed recordIndustry and manufacturing
- Emission free flying a step closer after Chinese plasma jet breakthroughTransport and mobility
- Revolutionary air breathing rocket engine gets green light for testsTransport and mobility
- Pentagon demands satellites that can dodge incoming fire like an NBA all starSpace
- Plasma jet engines get ready for real world trialsSpace
- NASA’s possible-impossible plasma engine roars into lifeSpace
- Leaked NASA documents show impossible EmDrive might workSpace
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