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Space rocket engines - We are halfway there!
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AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#21 - 2012-12-01 23:48:50 UTC
Hazen Koraka wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20510112

Congratulations to the Oxon team at reaction engines!

Now, if I can only retrofit this to my Imperial Navy Slicer!


Believe I correctly corrected that.

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Hazen Koraka
HK Enterprises
#22 - 2012-12-03 08:26:13 UTC
Something Random wrote:
This is ramjet to rocket stage technology..... the americans are working hard on this right now arnt they ? Seem to remember reading of a few test flights that disappeared - presumed boomed - recently. Dont think anyones quite sure other than the lack of a - object - after the test. mach 7 booms tend to spread out apparently.

Either way - need more astronauts. Might be a new way to get you up there.

Oh - and nowhere does it mention a fuel-less stage, just a new way to manage the air going to the fuel stage, and i dont think hydrogen came into it.

[edit] Dinosaurs ? wasnt it forests ?


Erm, read the wikipedia article on the Sabre engine. Read cambridge reaction engines technical whitepaper. Then come back to me.

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