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 ...

Air travel is about to get much faster and less polluting, but it will be another decade before we get to enjoy it. British firm Reaction Engines is working on an engine that will make hypersonic ...

A giant space plane that doubles as a supersonic jet is closer than ever to becoming a reality. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Skylon, in development by the British company Reaction Engines, would be the Holy-Grail-meets-cold-fusion of space travel, a single-stage-to-orbit ...

[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 ...

Diagram of the Sabre Engine with notes. Reaction Engines Ltd. Through the UK Space Agency, the Government is set to invest £60 million ($90.5) in the development of the SABRE – a British-designed ...

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 ...