Reaction Engine's Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) is closer to reality with ESA and the UK Space Agency (UKSA) green lighting the preliminary design of the demonstrator engine core. The ...

A new air-breathing rocket engine is ready for a major round of testing in the next 18 months after having passed a preliminary design review by the European Space Agency (ESA). The Synergistic ...

A British company called Reaction Engines Ltd.(REL) has accomplished what it calls “the biggest breakthrough in aerospace propulsion technology since the invention of the jet engine.” REL is in the ...

SABRE™ (Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) is a leading contender for the next generation of hypersonic flight and space access vehicles. There are three core building blocks to the SABRE engine ...

The development of a single-stage-to-orbit launch capability has been the Holy Grail to many since the dawn of the space age. Yet achieving orbit in one stage with conventional rocket power is ...

SABRE is at heart a rocket engine designed to power aircraft directly into space (single-stage to orbit) to allow reliable, responsive and cost effective space access, and in a different configuration ...

An artist’s conception shows a space plane powered by Reaction Engines’ SABRE system deploying an upper stage with a payload heading to orbit. (Reaction Engines Illustration) Boeing’s HorizonX venture ...

LOS ANGELES—The demonstrator core of Reaction Engines’ air-breathing Sabre rocket propulsion system has successfully passed a preliminary design review held in collaboration with the UK Space Agency ...

A recent surge of interest in multi-Mach propulsion projects from Rolls-Royce is followed today by another technical partnership – which sees the aero-engine manufacturer deepen its partnership with ...

Accessing space for security, scientific discovery, and economic interests is now commonplace. But success of Earth-oriented-and-beyond space missions and the inevitability of a human presence in ...