The UK Space Agency has made a further grant of £3.9-million (R76.75-million) to British high-tech engineering company Reaction Engines, to further support the development of revolutionary SABRE technology. SABRE stands for Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine, which, as its name says, is an air-breathing rocket engine design – that is, it will be able to operate in both air-breathing mode in the atmosphere, like a jet engine, or in rocket mode in outer space. This will allow it to combine ...
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