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<p>http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/</p><p>another company out of the UK that seems promising....</p><div style="width:640px;height:32px;adbe-c:c"><span class="header">The Skylon Vehicle</span></div><span class="bodybold">Skylon </span><span class="body">is an unpiloted, reuseable spaceplane intended to provide inexpensive and reliable access to space. Currently in proof-of-concept phase, the vehicle will take approximately 10 years to develop and will be capable of transporting 12 tonnes of cargo into space.</span> <p><span class="bodybold">Skylon</span><span class="body"> will be able to repay its development costs, meet its servicing and operating costs and make profits for its operators whilst being an order of magnitude cheaper to customers than current space transportation systems.</span></p><span class="body"><span class="body"><div style="width:656px;height:33px;adbe-c:c"><span class="bodybold">The Skylon Vehicle | Commercial Operations | Development Programme</span></div><p> Skylon vehicle Commercial Operations Development Programme</p></span></span><span class="body"><span class="body">Images of Skylon are available in the Skylon Image Library.</span> </span><span class="body"><p><span class="body">To see a typical mission profile, view the Skylon Operations Slideshow.</span></p><p><span class="body">For more in-depth information, see the papers on the Downloads page.</span></p><span class="body"><p><br /><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/2/14/82635e15-653e-4024-9e9c-41d3d177622f.Medium.jpg" alt="" /></p><p> </p>Note December update: Taken from article in <font size="2"><p><u><font size="2" color="#0000ff">http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=7890</font></u></p></font><p><br /><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/1/2/b188e352-5d9d-46cf-8232-d8bba79a1238.Medium.jpg" alt="" /><br />" STERN standing for “Static Test of ED Rocket Nozzle”. An update on the 8th of December revealed that the Skylon concept design is being reworked to take it from the configuration C1 to configuration D1. <a id="more-7890"></a><br /><br />The update also states “<em>The new vehicle will be slightly bigger, with a 25% increase in payload mass. The payload bay is being resized and there is a revision to the mounting provisions and other payload support features. The new configuration will include the result of a number of technology development programmes almost certainly including an Expansion Deflection Nozzle in the Sabre Engine following the successful STERN Engine test programme.</em>”</p><p> </p></span></span> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>