June 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... that cools incoming air with hydrogen fuel run through a heat exchanger. The engine, called Sabre, is being developed by UK-based Reactions Engines. The US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), under a co-operative research and development agreement with...
April 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
... at British Aerospace in Stevenage, then for 17 years at the University of Bristol lecturing in Astronautics. In 2009, he joined Reaction Engines Limited as the Future Programmes Director responsible for the overall Skylon vehicle. In 2013, he left...
February 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
.../British Aerospace HOTOL project of the 1980s. The current iteration of this design, Skylon D1, under development at Reaction Engines in the UK, requires 77 tonnes of liquid hydrogen fuel to carry a 15-tonne payload module into orbit. Optimised for...
June 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
...fuel is used to condense captured air with a heat exchanger, which is then combusted in a rocket engine. A UK-based company, Reaction Engines, has been pioneering this technology, which has the advantage of converting a relatively conventional rocket...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
...being developed by Orbital Access and using the Reaction Engines’ Sabre engine. Due to these advances and the game... fly over the summit of Mount Everest. He studied aeronautical engineering with management and has worked in the aerospace industry for ...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... He previously worked as Programme Manager at Skyrora Ltd, as well as performing consultant systems engineering for Reaction Engines, Airborne Engineering and Raptor Aerospace, and is currently providing consultancy on launcher analysis and spaceport...
