NEWS FROM SPACE SYMPOSIUM: Hypersonic Jet Project Reaches Major Milestone
4/11/2019
By Stew Magnuson
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A British company that is partly developing a section of a hypersonic engine at a spaceport in Colorado has carried its first hot live-fire test since setting up shop here.
The SABRE engine is envisioned as part of an aircraft that can takeoff on a runway and switch to “rocket mode†taking it up to speeds of Mach 5. It is being developed by Reaction Engines partly in the United Kingdom and partly in Colorado. The pre-cooler is being tested at a facility at the Colorado Air and Space Port east of the Denver International Airport.
The first test carried out at the new building recently was a success, said Adrian Tansing, contracts and international trade manager at Reaction Engines. The pre-cooler functioned at Mach 3.3 temperatures. The company is calling it “a pivotal moment in the advancement of air-breathing, high-speed propulsion.â€
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