Reaction Engines SABRE engine (Skylon Spaceplane)

[WatcherZero]

But how many pounds will the administrators want? That is the question. I suppose that you cannot get the technology for free, there has to be some sort of agreeement between the administrators and BAE Systems as to how much money they are willing to pay.

Arent RR and BAE the largest creditors anyway?

 

[FighterJock]

Did not realise that WatcherZero. Thanks.

 

[Archibald]

The supreme irony is that in 1989 BAe already screwed Alan Bond's team over the classified RB-545. Also Interim HOTOL. Hence 35 years later things would come full circle - damn.

 

[FighterJock]

So true Archibald so true.

 

[SteveO]

Awww… nuts! Sad news about Reaction Engines. Another Great British space flight dream in the bin.

Back when I started this thread I was a massive Skylon fanboy after reading about it in Spaceflight magazine. Then I actually got around to reading my big Space Shuttle book by Dennis R. Jenkins and realized it wasn’t going to be as straight forward as chucking money at it!

Then SpaceX and Falcon 9 happened!!!

 

[FighterJock]

That was exactly the same with me SteveO as to how I first saw anything about Skylon too through the BIS Spaceflight magazine and then onto the BIS Journal especially in the early years of its existence. I was somewhat of a fanboy as well I really wanted it to succeed where HOTOL failed but alas it was not to be.

 

[Zoo Tycoon]

Then SpaceX and Falcon 9 happened!!!

There you go, yup, likewise I reckon that’s that’s what nailed em.

 

[SteveO]

Yep, SpaceX and Falcon 9 was that, oh yeah!, moment when I realized making routine space flight easy was about science and engineering and not looking cool!

Saying that, watching a Falcon 9 land is about as cool as it comes