PICTURES: New Skylon images, the UK SSTO sees changes

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credit Reaction Engines / caption: Skylon rendezvous with ISS

Reaction Engines' Skylon single stage to orbit vehicle is shown here in close proximity to the International Space Station. The UK SSTO is undergoing changes with greater payload bay detail, Hyperbola will make public more info soon

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credit Reaction Engines / caption: Skylon with personnel module approaches for docking

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you just forgot to say that it will be piloted by Flash Gordon... :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon

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Gabe Kampis


Skylon and Hotol which came from the same stable are CONs!

Liquification of air in flight is a technology that is 50 years off. Now India wants to copy it. Good luck.

Reminds me of the X-30 Aerospace Plane.

Gaetano is right, but more polite .. Flash Gordon it is.

Mark Hempsell

Gabe Kampis is quite simply wrong as a visit to Reaction Engines' website would have informed him. The air in the SABRE engine is never liquid and apart from the heat exchangers all the technology required to build the engine is ready. The heat exchangers are the subject of the final stage of a technology programme, part funded by ESA, which will be completed in 2011.

The Indian system is not a copy but a different concept that separates the oxygen from the air and then liquifies it.

The X-30 used a Scramjet - different again!

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