MOSCOW. Aug 26 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia has become the world's first to test a next-generation pulse detonation rocket engine using ecologically pure fuel, the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects said.
"The significance of these successful tests for rapid development of the domestic engine industry can hardly be overestimated. We have been pursuing this result for two years, and it definitely satisfies us. The future belongs to rocket engines of the type," the foundation press service has quoted NPO Energomash Deputy General Director and Designer Vladimir Chvanov as saying.
The world's first tests of a full-size demonstrator of a pulse detonation liquid-fuel rocket engine were performed by the pulse engine liquid-fuel rocket engine laboratory established at Energomash in 2014, the foundation said in a report seen by Interfax-AVN on Friday.
The engine used an 'oxygen-kerosene' fuel duo, it said.
"The results have truly global significance," Foundation for Advanced Research Projects Deputy General Director - Physical and Engineering Research Division Head Igor Denisov said.
"We have set a complex task of proving the possibility of pulse detonation in oxygen-kerosene rocket engines. Now we can definitely say that this is possible and that we know how to do so. We will do more and, hopefully, will confirm all other declared characteristics in the near future," the press service quoted Denisov as saying.