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The UK spaceplane aiming to go to a new level
BBC News ^ | 07/30/09 | Jonathan Amos

Posted on 08/02/2009 3:40:21 PM PDT by KevinDavis

If there is one British space project that has the capacity to inspire at the moment then surely it is Skylon.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: esa; nasa; ramjet; rollsroyce; sabre; sabreengine; scramjet; skylon; space; spaceexploration; spaceplane; unitedkingdom; virgingalactic

1 posted on 08/02/2009 3:40:21 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 08/02/2009 3:41:04 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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To: KevinDavis

Hope I live long enough to see an operational SSTO. I somehow doubt I will.


3 posted on 08/02/2009 5:18:25 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century. I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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