The Skylon - Our Future Ride To Space? | Answers With Joe

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Imagine if getting into space were as easy as a plane flight?

One of the most promising technologies is an engine called SABRE that would enable a plane to climb all the way into space.

And the space plane attached to that engine could be the Skylon Space Plane from Reaction Engines. But does it have the right stuff?

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Tim's video on SSTOs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfc2Jg1gkKA

Amy Shira Teital's video about the Space Shuttle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pJoM9P-Zqk

Cool Skylon animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOqInOe5g8k

Neoscribe vid on Skylon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmaiPD7_c18

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

https://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news/reaction-engines-participating-uk-mod-funded-research-programme-develop-hypersonic-propulsion-systems

https://www.universetoday.com/141785/progress-for-the-skylon-europe-agrees-to-continue-working-on-the-air-breathing-sabre-engine-1/

Ashley Dove-Jay's analysis of Skylon vs Falcon 9:
https://theconversation.com/spaceplanes-vs-reusable-rockets-which-will-win-51938

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/history_of_the_phoenix_vtol_ssto_and_recent_developments_in_single_stage_launch_systems.shtml

Spaceship One:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXNkUNP75-Q