Cool Concept!!
The only thing that stands between space tourism making it into the mainstream is the actual cost of launching a spacecraft. Well, if things go as planned we’ll be witnessing a low-cost-reusable-sexy-looking rocket named Skylon in less than 10 years.
Traditional throwaway rockets costing more than a $100m (£70m) per launch are a drag on the growth of this market.
— Alan Bond, managing director of Oxford-based Reaction Engines Ltd (REL).
This reusable beauty is good enough to lift a payload of more than 12 tonnes into orbit and return back safely. It uses a unique hybrid engine named Sabre. Sabre is being touted as the air-breathing rocket engine that gets into rocket mode and burns the hydrogen with liquid oxygen.
Via: gizmowatch
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