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Venus Aerospace

Venus Aerospace is a propulsion company building the Venus Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) and the Venus Detonation Ramjet (VDR), a hybrid that pairs the RDRE with air-breathing ramjet technology to carry a vehicle from takeoff through hypersonic cruise on a single engine. The company positions detonation-based propulsion — supersonic detonation waves propagating around an annular combustor rather than conventional subsonic combustion — for defense munitions and uncrewed systems, space upper stages, orbital transfer vehicles and landers, and commercial high-speed flight. Venus Aerospace is a hardware and flight-test organization: it publishes a public marketing site covering the RDRE, the VDR, its team, investors and newsroom, but no developer program, API, SDK or machine-readable specification of any kind.

Venus Aerospace is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Aerospace, Propulsion, Hypersonics, and Rocket Engines.

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
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CompanyAerospacePropulsionHypersonicsRocket EnginesDefenseSpace

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: venus-aerospace
name: Venus Aerospace
description: 'Venus Aerospace is a propulsion company building the Venus Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) and the
  Venus Detonation Ramjet (VDR), a hybrid that pairs the RDRE with air-breathing ramjet technology to carry a vehicle from
  takeoff through hypersonic cruise on a single engine. The company positions detonation-based propulsion — supersonic detonation
  waves propagating around an annular combustor rather than conventional subsonic combustion — for defense munitions and uncrewed
  systems, space upper stages, orbital transfer vehicles and landers, and commercial high-speed flight. Venus Aerospace is
  a hardware and flight-test organization: it publishes a public marketing site covering the RDRE, the VDR, its team, investors
  and newsroom, but no developer program, API, SDK or machine-readable specification of any kind.'
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/689185f14513f9a00c297276/6896545ad4a23ab7d7b49564_Frame%2067.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/venus-aerospace/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-05'
modified: '2026-08-05'
tags:
- Company
- Aerospace
- Propulsion
- Hypersonics
- Rocket Engines
- Defense
- Space
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/venus-aerospace-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/venus-aerospace-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.venusaero.com/
- type: Product
  name: Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE)
  url: https://www.venusaero.com/rdre
- type: Product
  name: Venus Detonation Ramjet (VDR)
  url: https://www.venusaero.com/vdr
- type: Team
  url: https://www.venusaero.com/team
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.venusaero.com/careers
- type: Investors
  url: https://www.venusaero.com/investors
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.venusaero.com/newsroom
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.venusaero.com/contact
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/venusaero/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/VenusAerospace
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/venusaero/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-05'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: Venus Aerospace builds rocket engines, not software — venusaero.com is a seven-page Webflow marketing site (RDRE,
    VDR, team, investors, newsroom, careers, contact) where /developers, /api, /docs, /openapi.json and /llms.txt all return
    a real 404, every /.well-known/* path returns "Invalid .well-known request", and api./docs./developer.venusaero.com do
    not resolve in DNS.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.venusaero.com/developers
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.venusaero.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.venusaero.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.venusaero.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.venusaero.com/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.venusaero.com/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-05'

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