credit Reaction Engines / caption: Reaction Engines' SSTO Skylon reenters Earth atmosphere
For those of you wondering about this blog post yesterday, at 0001h today this story about the European Space Agency and UK government funding technology that could be used for the Reaction Engines Skylon spaceplane went up on flightglobal.com. You can watch Reaction Engines' Skylon spaceplane animation in the extended portion of this blog post and nicely detailed it is too
on February 19, 2009 9:24 PM | Reply
I wrote about this too, it was more like "if i had a nickle for everytime someone came up with a space design" that never sees funding.
I really didn't think this would get any funds. What do you think the chances are to get the 10 billion they want for full development? Would the demonstrator be enough or would then need more private funding first?
on February 21, 2009 8:05 PM | Reply
In this day and age Skylon is as far fetched as a manned trip to Mars. Too damn expensive and thus bogus. Why funding technology that isn't to be used the next thirty or forty years?
on February 23, 2009 9:22 AM | Reply
I understand that the heat exchanger tech is actually of interest to the next generation of heat recuperating jet engines.