Reaction Engines' hypersonic SABRE air-breathing rocket engine has taken a major step towards flight after a key component passed the first phase of high-temperature testing. Under conditions ...

Reaction Engines Ltd. (REL) is developing SABRE, a hybrid jet/rocket engine designed for Mach 5.5 flight, enabling single-stage access to space or global travel in just over four hours. REL achieved a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hypersonic engines would enable super-fast travel (Reaction Engines) Flight times from London to Sydney could be cut to just four ...

Fans of supersonic flight have been yearning for a new way to break the sound barrier ever since Concorde stopped flying in 2003. Now successful tests of a key part of an air-breathing rocket engine ...

ESA signed an agreement Tuesday with Reaction Engines Ltd. to provide the company more than $10 million to continue work on the SABRE engine, with ESA serving as the project’s technical auditor. That ...

U.K. aerospace manufacturer Reaction Engines, based in Oxfordshire, England was formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system ...

Reaction Engines (H4/C2) has announced successful stage one and two tests of a revolutionary pre-cooler of a new type of engine called SABRE, which could propel aircraft round the Earth in four hours ...

An artist’s conception shows a space plane powered by Reaction Engines’ SABRE system deploying an upper stage with a payload heading to orbit. (Reaction Engines Illustration) Boeing’s HorizonX venture ...