July 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...
May 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...
March 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...
September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
.... At least this latter research was continued, from the 1990s onwards, by Reaction Engines with its Skylon vehicle, incorporating the innovative Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE)… but here we are 30 years later with no flight hardware...
July 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...
April 2026
Rethinking the spacesuit as a biological system
... previously worked as Programme Manager at orbital launch company Skyrora, and for companies including Reaction Engines and Airborne Engineering, as well as other work on launch systems, spaceports and propulsion consultancy over a number of decades...
