13 July 2016
Reaction Engines sign new deal with ESA while UK Space Agency announces new facility
... Engines Ltd, a UK based company founded in 1989 by Alan Bond, announced the signing of a €10m European Space Agency ... technology and is the concept of former Rolls-Royce engineer Mr Bond and two business partners who started the project over 30 years...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
... Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE). Our founders, Alan Bond, Richard Varvill and John Scott-Scott were three propulsion...class, which the company is now actively developing. Alan Bond, Richard Varvill and John Scott-Scott who formed ...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... Icarus, which aims to provide an updated version of the Daedalus probe. World ship dozens of kilometres long, proposed by Alan Bond and Anthony Martin in the 1980s. The second type of rocket propulsion that is likely to have a sufficient performance...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
...actually not new. A similar principle was first mentioned by Alan Bond in the early 1970s in his discussion on the Ram... of Washington, and considering past studies by people such as Bond, a vehicle that could provide a feasible all-round solution ...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... nuclear engine which, like the SABRE (Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine) that powers Skylon, is an invention of Alan Bond, who first outlined the basic cycle concept in 1972. The heating of the hydrogen propellant is undertaken in two...
