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Tag Archives: skylon
Even more on Skylon
They stop airbreathing at 2 km/s. Let’s compare this to staging. Assuming an upper stage of the weight of Skylon at that point (230 t), what kind of a rocket would be required for that? With a hunch of 3000 … Continue reading
Why precool but not liquify – Skylon and SABRE
Well, I thought maybe I could add some content. Everybody’s heard about the British Hotol follower Skylon and its airbreathing SABRE engines. What’s special about them? My understandin’s based on this excellent document from Reaction Engines explaining why the system … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, Architecture, Design, Energy, engines, ESA, industry, Launchers, RLV:s, Suborbital, Transportation, Uncategorized
Tagged Airbreathing, Heat Exchanger, Hotol, Hydrogen, LACE, Precooler, RB545, sabre, skylon
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Skylon
Nice video explanation of the SABRE engine by Richard Varvill. In a sense, it boils down to the problem of changing the hot fast low pressure intake air flow to a cold slow high pressure flow. In the Sabre engine, … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, Architecture, Energy, engines, ESA, industry, Motivation, RLV:s, Science Links, Suborbital, Transportation
Tagged liquid air, sabre, skylon, ssto, varvill
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