AN OXFORDSHIRE company developing a revolutionary air-fuelled spacecraft engine has this week begun construction on a test facility where it plans to carry out its first ground-based tests.

The development of the SABRE air-breathing rocket engine has passed a significant milestone, an advance that puts its UK developers on course to revolutionise high-speed flight. HTX test article ...

Designed to drive space planes to orbit at Mach 5, and also take airliners around the world in just a few hours, the Sabre air-breathing rocket engine has just passed a crucial testing phase. Sabre is ...

We had a fantastic response for our call for questions to the Reaction Engines team working on Skylon and its propulsion system, the SABRE engine. We collated your questions, sent them to Culham, and ...

Reaction Engines, the company looking to propel aircraft at five times the speed of sound, has said it has achieved the biggest breakthrough in aerospace propulsion technology since the invention of ...

The UK Government has announced plans to provide £60 million for a revolutionary new rocket engine capable of taking people to Earth's stratosphere in just 15 minutes. The engine is called Sabre, ...

Mach 5 equates to astonishing 6,174 kilometres per hour (3,836 miles per hour) – almost three times faster than Concorde. Science minister Chris Skidmore said the news was further evidence of the way ...

The UK project to develop a hypersonic engine that could take a plane from London to Sydney in about four hours is set for a key demonstration. The Sabre engine is part jet, part rocket, and relies on ...

Artwork: Sabre-enabled test vehicles could perhaps one day power a two-stage launcher flying out of Prestwick The £60m UK government investment in the "revolutionary" Sabre rocket engine concept has ...

The UK project to develop a hypersonic engine that could take a plane from London to Sydney in about four hours is set for a key demonstration. The Sabre engine is part jet, part rocket, and relies on ...