The company is a privately owned engineering research biz that operated for more than 30 years. Its major focus was the development of SABRE (Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine), said to combine ...

WASHINGTON — Reaction Engines Ltd., a British company that has worked for decades on an air-breathing rocket engine for spaceplanes and other hypersonic vehicles, has filed for bankruptcy. The company ...

(Reuters) - Here is a look at the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) developed by Reaction Engines Ltd over the last 20 years which could power a re-usable space plane. Sabre will be a new ...

LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A small British company with a dream of building a re-usable space plane has won an important endorsement from the European Space Agency (ESA) after completing key tests on ...

Flames spit from the exhaust stacks and smoke rolls over the wings as the R.A.F. Typhoon’s Napier Sabre engine erupts during a simulated test. Rendered with brutal realism in Blender 4.2, this scene ...