After nearly 30 years of service, the Space Shuttle fleet is due to enter retirement with the last ever mission scheduled for takeoff on July 8, 2011. In its lifetime, the world's first Reusable ...

Skylon is the result of 30 years' development and probably about 100m euros (£80m) of investment so far It appears a feasible proposition, economically. That is the conclusion of a study that ...

After 30 years of development, the UK and European space agencies have given the go-ahead for the Skylon Spaceplane. The Skylon, which is being developed at the UK's Oxfordshire-based Reaction Engines ...

Skylon is a British space plane under development by the U.K.-based Reaction Engines, Ltd. The space plane concept vehicle consists of a slender fuselage containing propellant tankage and payload bay, ...

The rumored funding amount is £60Million ($90Million). This would not be full Phase 3 funding. It would help get private cofunding. The hybrid engine – its name stands for Synergistic Air-Breathing ...

It’s difficult not to be impressed by the towering rockets used around the world to launch spacecraft into orbit. From the colossal Saturn V rockets developed in the 1960s to the SpaceX Falcon 9, one ...

"As young as 12 I was building my own rockets," says Alan Bond, inventor of the Skylon spaceplane and Sabre, the revolutionary engine that could herald a new era of space travel. "[But] only really ...

Aerospace engineers have dreamed of a spaceship that can launch like a plane, get to orbit, and land on a runway since the 1960s. A British company, Reaction Engines Limited, wants to make that dream ...