Wouldn’t it be nice if it were cheaper and more economical to get to orbit? Cue the Skylon space plane, currently scheduled to commence test flights in 2019. ANALYSIS: The Hypersonic Spaceplanes ...

The robotic Skylon aims to put about 15 tonnes in low ... is a novel air-breathing and rocket engine that would enable the ship to go to space in one leap. It would not need the "stages" of ...

Spindly, sexy, from outer space... Not Bowie, but The Skylon — the 300ft-tall spacecraft, which landed on the South Bank two decades before anyone knew who Ziggy Stardust was. It was ...

The pre-cooler uses thousands of small-bore thin-wall tubes, each around the width of a human hair, to drop the air temperature to -150degrees celcius in just 30ms. Back when Skylon was still a ...

It’s intended for Reaction Engines’ SKYLON spacecraft and its airliner derivative, the LAPCAT A2 hypersonic aircraft. The company had carried out its own tests earlier this year at its ...

The Skylon is powered by a new kind of engine known as a SABRE. The company is already testing the engine system and is planning the first test flights for 2019. REL asserts that this engine will ...

Skylon is a British space plane under development by the U.K.-based Reaction Engines, Ltd. The space plane concept vehicle consists of a slender fuselage containing propellant tankage and payload ...

Five papers related from Reaction Engines Limited (who are making the SKylon spaceplane) are in the January, 2011 Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS). The papers can only be seen by ...

REL’s sleek, winged spaceplane, called the Skylon, looks like something out of the retro-futuristic visions of old magazine covers. The spacecraft is built to fly like a jet — at first The ...

Reaction Engines has announced that is has successfully tested the key pre-cooler component of its revolutionary SABRE engine crucial to the development of its SKYLON spaceplane.The company claims ...

So, it is perhaps not surprising that the Skylon venture generates so much interest ... breathing and rocket engine that would enable the ship to go to space in one leap. It would not need ...