This Texas rocket builder’s high-tech ring of fire could revolutionize aerospace

One early morning in May 2025 at Spaceport America, a desert basin on the outskirts of Las Cruces, New Mexico, a silver rocket shot through the air.Launches aren’t a rare occurrence at the commercial launch site, but this test flight wasn’t an everyday event. A century after Robert Goddard launched his first liquid-fueled rocket, the flight by Venus Aerospace, a Texas-based startup, may have heralded a new kind of rocket, a new technology, and maybe a new era. “It’s a step change in combustion p...