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Reaction Engines To Fly Reusable Spaceplane
RobGoldsmith writes "Reaction Engines have designed a 'reusable spaceplane' to provide inexpensive and reliable access to space. The Star Wars-looking 'Skylon' reusable spaceplane has already been designed and the team are well into engine testing. They have taken some time out from building spaceships to talk about their background, their goals, and their recent engine tests. This article shows new images of their STERN Engine, an experimental rocket motor which explores the flow in Expansion Deflection (ED) nozzles. They also discuss their Sabre air-breathing engine technology. View the Skylon Spaceplane concept, the STERN Engine and much more in this in-depth interview with the team."
I never thought that the Firefly form factor would ever actually fly, but look at the picture of the Skylon and tell me you don't see the resemblance!
Sounds like a Skynet-Cylon joint venture. Please don't be sinister-looking....
*Opens link*
Ah, crap.
Don't put advice in your sig.
Hmmm ... I would suggest GL to sue that company for (R) infringement!
And later (from a galaxy far far away) the Empire will sue GL!
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
You can get slightly better Isp than that, actually. For example, I get 4664 m/s vacuum Isp
DUDE!!! You must have a ton of warez!! Where can I sign up for Vacuum Isp?? My ISP suck0rs!! Im lucky if I get 3 Mb/s, but ur getting 4664!! NO FAIR!!!!1!
Be relentless!
Be careful what you ask for. No matter how bad your ISP is, it can't suck0rs as much as *vacuum* ISP.
Don't forget black-hole ISPs. They suck nearly as much as... hmm, what a choice...
"Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"
From what I saw at the company website, it looks like they're building the orbital equivalent of the first commercial airliner, the DC-3.
Cool. Now if we can just scale up to build space DC-8s, we can take all the scientologists to another planet and drop them in a volcano.
It's what the Yanks call an Aluminium Falcon.
I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen...
Is that what pretentious Brits call Aluminum?