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So, it is perhaps not surprising that the Skylon venture generates so much interest.
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Skylon reminds me of the optimistic days of my childhood when 60s Britain, still humming with aeronautical self-belief, built its own rockets and supersonic warplanes.
BBC: Skylon: A British dream of space
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Even if Skylon's tests are not wholly successful, the lessons from past development tell us that nothing is wasted - new knowledge will find applications.
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Skylon would then land back on Earth at the same runway.
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The engine is for the Skylon project, an ambitious scheme for a craft that would realise a long-cherished dream: to fly non-stop from airport to cosmos.
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The move is aimed at smoothing the path to market of novel launch systems such as the Skylon concept being developed by Reaction Engines Limited (REL).
BBC: Move to open sky for Skylon spaceplane
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Remember, the company behind Skylon - Reaction Engines Limited - envisages the project as a commercial enterprise, and unless the private investors are forthcoming, the vehicle will never fly - no matter how smart the technology.
BBC: Skylon: Ending 40 years of hurt
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The UK Space Agency initiated a review of Skylon and as part of that assessment it asked propulsion engineering experts at the European Space Agency to run the rule over the spaceplane and, in particular, its breakthrough Sabre engine design.
BBC: Skylon: Ending 40 years of hurt
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Reaction Engines is still a ways behind SpaceX: it has only a fraction of the funding and has yet to build an actual prototype of a hybrid engine, never mind the Skylon, a proposed spaceplane that it would power.
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