Sassie Duggleby: Building a Little, Testing a Little, Learning a Lot with Venus Aerospace
Sassie Duggleby, Co-Founder and CEO of Venus Aerospace, joins Massive Signals to discuss building the world's first high-thrust rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) — and the journey from a jet-lagged conversation in Japan to a $90 million Series B. She shares how Venus cracked a propulsion concept that had eluded the industry for over 40 years, why a single test flight in May 2025 flipped the company from an "academic experiment" into one fielding inbound demand from defense primes, and how that shift is now forcing Venus to reinvent itself from an R&D shop into a scale manufacturer…
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