August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... and, to emphasise this, half of the ISS is based on modules developed for the first Salyut space stations. Reaction Engines’ Skylon spaceplane. So while we marvel at applications like GPS, gawp as rockets power into the cosmos and admire the...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... on short periods of weightless flight. Another potential spaceport user, though on an altogether different scale, is Reaction Engines’ Skylon spaceplane, currently being developed in the UK but unlikely to be flying much within the next 10 years...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... an initial competitive search for UK-based spaceports, with the focus initially on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipOne and Reaction Engines’ Skylon. The ‘competition’ gave way to a licencing regime, enabling any site to host a spaceport, with the market...
