[Photo: Reaction Engines] This is the Skylon spaceplane. It’s a revolutionary new concept that can take off like a plane before rocketing off into space. The European Space Agency just passed a ...

This site had an interview with Richard Varvill, the Technical Director and Chief Designer at Reaction Engines Limited. Reaction Engines Limited is a UK company that is developing a fully reusable ...

Reaction Engines have devised a series of modules to demonstrate the proposed spaceship Skylon's capabilities. Here, a space station has been assembled using docking, habitation, power, airlock and ...

The 24-hour slog from Sydney to London might soon(ish) be a thing of the past, thanks to the UK government. The Brits have just pumped £60 million (USD $92.40 million) into a next-generation engine ...

Engine technology may be key to realising the Skylon space plane, but its airframe is also critical, and possibly just as ambitious. The 87m (285ft) long design, with 25m wingspan, calls for fuselage ...

British company Reaction Engines Limited (REL), which is developing an engine that could be used on space planes in the future, has received a significant amount of funding from aerospace company BAE ...

Richard Varvill, technical director and one of the founders of Reaction Engines believes the Skylon spaceplane project is now reaching its final stages. After decades of withdrawn government support ...

A £6 million ($8.5 million) air-breathing rocket engine technology demonstration programme has been announced after the European Space Agency contributed €1 million ($1.25 million) to it. The ...

Skylon, a reusable spaceplane that can take off from a conventional aircraft runway, carry over twelve tonnes to orbit and then return to land on the same runway could be less than a decade away ...

Human beings will always be explorers. We’ve pretty well surveyed our planet, our tiny blue dot, for answers and only found more questions. Why are we here? How did we get here? What does it mean?