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Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a ...

I suspect those 'ports' are just for docking and firmly holding a fixed relative position under ullage-settling acceleration. I don't think it'd make much sense to flow actual propellant through these ...