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Project Skylon: A Giant British Space Plane Concept (Gallery)

by SPACE.com Staff   |   July 17, 2012 01:38pm ET
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Skylon Soars Into Space

Credit: Adrian Mann
Skylon is a British space plane under development by the U.K.-based Reaction Engines, Ltd. The space plane concept vehicle consists of a slender fuselage…Read More »





containing propellant tankage and payload bay, with delta wings attached midway along the fuselage carrying the SABRE engines in axisymmetric nacelles on the wingtips. The vehicle takes off and lands horizontally on its own undercarriage.   Less «
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