Northern Ireland Space Special Interest Group - Visit by Reaction Engines Ltd
Date: 11/03/2014
Reaction Engines Ltd are developing the technologies needed for an advanced rocket engine class called SABRE that will enable aircraft to operate at speeds of up to five times the speed of sound or fly directly into Earth orbit. Reaction Engines also have a development plan for a spaceplane called Skylon.
Through the UK Space Agency, the Government is investing £60 million in the development of the SABRE rocket engine which could revolutionise the fields of propulsion and launcher technology, and significantly reduce the costs of accessing space.
Richard Varvill, Technical Director and Chief Designer and Tom Scrope, Finance Director visited Belfast on the 5th March 2014 to attend a meeting of the Northern Ireland Space Special Interest Group (NISSIG). At the meeting Richard very kindly delivered a very informative, interesting and inspiring overview of the Skylon and SABRE programmes to ADS NI Members who were very impressed and motivated by future business opportunities in the Space Industry.
A PDF version of the presentation has been made available to download.