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Reaction Engines Ltd

  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Space engine pioneer seeks up to £20mn to keep hypersonic plans alive

    Reaction Engines needs new investment after losses deepen

    Reaction engineers have been developing a hybrid jet and rocket engine, Sabre
  • Monday, 9 January, 2023
    Aerospace & Defence
    The UK’s attempt to make hypersonic flight a reality

    Reaction Engines is part of a consortium developing an engine for military aircraft that could fly five times the speed of sound

    A sleek US Air Force jet above the clouds
  • Monday, 18 July, 2022
    UK defence industry
    UK to fly supersonic prototype of sixth-generation fighter by 2027

    Partnership with Italy and Japan announced on jet seen as critical to meeting 2035 aircraft pledge

    A model demonstrating the sensors on a Tempest, the UK’s new fighter, at the Farnborough International Airshow
  • Monday, 21 October, 2019
    Space industry
    British hypersonic jet engine technology passes crucial heat test

    Precooling system for Reaction’s Sabre shown to handle the temperatures of Mach 5

    Reaction Engines Sabre Engine SABRE is an air-breathing rocket engine that can propel an aircraft from zero to five times the speed of sound and 25 times the speed of sound for space access. A
  • Monday, 8 April, 2019
    Aerospace & Defence
    Reaction Engines announces space travel breakthrough

    UK company successfully tests cooling technology in significant milestone

    Reaction Engines 
									Sabre Engine
									SABRE  is an air-breathing rocket engine that can
									propel an aircraft from zero to five times the speed of sound and 25 times the speed of sound
									for space access. A
  • Wednesday, 11 April, 2018
    US & Canadian companies
    Rolls-Royce and Boeing throw weight behind space engine

    Rocket Engines technology could propel aircraft into outer space and back

    Undated handout issued by the European Space Agency (ESA) of an artistsÕs impression of how common planets are around the stars in the Milky Way. The planets, their orbits and their host stars are all vastly magnified compared to their real separations. Nearly 100 planets orbiting stars outside our solar system have been discovered by scientists. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday February 15, 2018. Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark's National Space Institute analysed hundreds of potential exoplanets from data provided by the Kepler spacecraft. Out of 275 candidate planets, scientists confirmed 95 were exoplanets. The spacecraft, which is on the K2 mission to discover new exoplanets, has uncovered thousands of candidates since it was launched almost a decade ago. See PA story SCIENCE Exoplanet. Photo credit should read: ESA/Hubble/ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
  • Friday, 5 May, 2017
    News in-depthSpace industry
    A space engine that could make flying into orbit commonplace

    Britain’s ‘rocketeers’ move closer to turning a near 30-year dream into reality

  • Wednesday, 3 May, 2017
    Space industry6 min
    Engine could boost UK’s space ambitions

    Peggy Hollinger checks out Reaction Engines’s Sabre System in Oxfordshire

  • Sunday, 6 November, 2016
    Disrupters
    Rocket engine will need funds to reach lift off

    A British project to create a reusable launching mechanism could have the edge over Elon Musk’s SpaceX scheme

    Reaction SABRE engine
  • Monday, 11 July, 2016
    European companies
    Reaction Engines secures funding for space engine

    UK start-up to produce demonstrator of its Sabre technology that could transform travel beyond earth

    SKYLON with SABRE - Cutaway
  • Monday, 16 November, 2015
    Aerospace & Defence
    Sabre rattles long-distance travel hopes

    In the world of business aviation, buyers have a substantial appetite for greater nonstop range in large aircraft

  • Friday, 17 July, 2015
    Satellites
    UK eager to claim its share at the final frontier

    Economics of space are changing, opening up business opportunities beyond costly manned missions

  • Monday, 10 February, 2014
    UK companies
    Bristol Spaceplanes joins tourism race
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2013
    Technology sector
    Call for Britain to have its own spaceport
    SKYLON orbital infrastructure
  • Wednesday, 28 November, 2012
    Aerospace & Defence
    Sabre rocket to slash air travel times
    Artists impression of the Lapcat A2 aircraft
  • Friday, 6 April, 2012
    FT Magazine
    UK’s space hopes closer to take-off

    The Skylon spaceplane, which could take satellites (and eventually people) into orbit, will take off like an airliner

  • Monday, 16 November, 2009
    Terrorism
    Future technology: Sky is no limit for rapid travel
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