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Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, successfully fired up a rotating detonation thrust chamber assembly in early December. The full-scale engine combustor fired for just over 340 seconds, allowing teams to successfully test the initial thrust chamber assembly configuration for the first time as part of the Integrated Rotating Detonation Engine System (InRoDES) project.