Reaction Engines To Fly Reusable Spaceplane 156
RobGoldsmith writes "Reaction Engines have designed a 'reusable spaceplane' to provide inexpensive and reliable access to space. The Star Wars-looking 'Skylon' reusable spaceplane has already been designed and the team are well into engine testing. They have taken some time out from building spaceships to talk about their background, their goals, and their recent engine tests. This article shows new images of their STERN Engine, an experimental rocket motor which explores the flow in Expansion Deflection (ED) nozzles. They also discuss their Sabre air-breathing engine technology. View the Skylon Spaceplane concept, the STERN Engine and much more in this in-depth interview with the team."
Holy shit, it's a proto-Firefly! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Holy shit, it's a proto-Firefly! (Score:2, Funny)
Sky-Lon? (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like a Skynet-Cylon joint venture. Please don't be sinister-looking....
*Opens link*
Ah, crap.
George Lucas copyright? (Score:3, Funny)
And later (from a galaxy far far away) the Empire will sue GL!
Re:enough propellant? (Score:3, Funny)
You can get slightly better Isp than that, actually. For example, I get 4664 m/s vacuum Isp
DUDE!!! You must have a ton of warez!! Where can I sign up for Vacuum Isp?? My ISP suck0rs!! Im lucky if I get 3 Mb/s, but ur getting 4664!! NO FAIR!!!!1!
Re:enough propellant? (Score:3, Funny)
Be careful what you ask for. No matter how bad your ISP is, it can't suck0rs as much as *vacuum* ISP.
Don't forget black-hole ISPs. They suck nearly as much as... hmm, what a choice...
Re:a 21st Century DC-3 (Score:3, Funny)
From what I saw at the company website, it looks like they're building the orbital equivalent of the first commercial airliner, the DC-3.
Cool. Now if we can just scale up to build space DC-8s, we can take all the scientologists to another planet and drop them in a volcano.
Re:Star Wars looking? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Star Wars looking? (Score:5, Funny)