To view the test, click here and go to the 51-minute mark. The right burn BluShift is the first company in the world to build a rocket engine that runs entirely on a nontoxic, bio-derived solid fuel.

That said, rocket engines are unconventional and vastly different from the airplane, car, and other common engines. While rockets also combust fuel to move like other engines, there is a ...

The company was formed back in 2020 with the goal of making a sort of mutant rocket engine that pairs the benefits of a rotating detonation design (RDRE) with those of a ramjet.