Source: China – South China Morning PostA research team in Beijing says they have built a new type of rocket engine powered by explosions.The continuous rotating detonation combustion engine, developed by Professor Wang Bing and colleagues from the school of aerospace engineering in Tsinghua University in Beijing, is driven by explosive shock waves spinning like a tornado faster than the speed of sound.Can China’s experimental engine supercharge hypersonic space race?The idea of an engine powered by explosion was proposed by Soviet…Read More