Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine

[robertsconley]

Something that may be of interest to this project. Supposed to have 25% better efficiency than normal liquid-fueled Rocket Engines.

Rotating detonation engine - Wikipedia

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[Geir]

Looked at that when it hit the news recently. From my admittedly cursory reading, looks like good performance in an atmosphere - using atmospheric oxygen as the oxidizer, but crap performance in vacuum.