Project Troy - Mission to Mars Reaction Engines SK
Concept from Reaction Engines - SKYLON, SABRE ENGINEProject Troy - Mission to Mars
Here's video of concept
I've posted this due to the interest in the announcement of
Reaction engines UK successful tests on Sabre Engine posted in forum
SABRE is the first engine to achieve this goal by operating in two rocket modes: initially in air-breathing mode and subsequently in conventional rocket mode:
Air breathing mode - the rocket engine sucks in atmospheric air as a source of oxygen (as in a typical jet engine) to burn with its liquid hydrogen fuel in the rocket combustion chamber
Conventional rocket mode - the engine is above the atmosphere and transitions to using conventional on-board liquid oxygen
Here link to Site
So sorry people might only interest your scientific types
But how does travel at
Mach 5 from Europe to Australia in 4 hours grab you
in the LAPCAT A2 concept
Hey parti would be able to pop down for a beer at your local pub
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Crossings took a dramatic increase in not only frequency but in time saved as well . This is of course still longer than airplanes would do it in . We now have gone from days to hours in our ability to do this and in some rare and experimental pieces it can be done in miniutes .
The Mars landings will undoubtetly benifit from technology as yet unseen to make this almost routien . It looks like an exciting future ahead . . . .
Amazing stuff all the same.
It gona be a long 4 hours