Reaction Engine's Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) is closer to reality with ESA and the UK Space Agency (UKSA) green lighting the preliminary design of the demonstrator engine core. The ...

Reaction Engines' hypersonic SABRE air-breathing rocket engine has taken a major step towards flight after a key component passed the first phase of high-temperature testing. Under conditions ...

U.K. aerospace manufacturer Reaction Engines, based in Oxfordshire, England was formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system ...

Fans of supersonic flight have been yearning for a new way to break the sound barrier ever since Concorde stopped flying in 2003. Now successful tests of a key part of an air-breathing rocket engine ...

U.K.-based Reaction Engines has signed an agreement with the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to explore the potential of the company’s Sabre advanced cycle air-breathing rocket engine. The company ...

Reaction Engines (H4/C2) has announced successful stage one and two tests of a revolutionary pre-cooler of a new type of engine called SABRE, which could propel aircraft round the Earth in four hours ...

WATKINS, Colo. — Engineers at a U.K. company called “Reaction Engines” are testing out a new rocket engine at the Colorado Air and Space Port near Watkins. This new SABRE engine contains a precooler ...

Reaction Engines is hopeful that newly unveiled technology which uses its heat exchanger system to allow regular jet engines to burn ammonia – producing zero carbon emissions – could enter service ...

REUTERS - Here is a look at the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) developed by Reaction Engines Ltd over the last 20 years which could power a re-usable space plane. Sabre will be a new ...

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