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GE Plans Summer Full-Scale Test of DMRJ in Evendale

GE Plans Summer Full-Scale Test of DMRJ in Evendale
In September last year, RTX's Raytheon and Northrop Grumman said that they had completed a static fire test of an advanced long-range solid rocket motor at the Northrop Grumman Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia to demonstrate wired end-burning technology for hypersonic applications and to provide data for engine validation (RTX Photo)

By the end of the summer, GE Aerospace [GE] plans to conduct a full-scale test in Evendale, Ohio of the company's dual-mode ramjet (DMRJ) hypersonic engine with rotating detonation combustion (RDC) to follow up the 2023 subscale test of a DMRJ rig with RDC in a supersonic flow stream at the company's research center in Niskayuna, N.Y. Established in 1900 as the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, the center moved to Niskayuna in 1955. Joseph Vinciquerra, general manager and senior…

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