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 ...

Proving that you can't keep a good technology down, Reaction Engines' Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) has a new lease on life after a British-led consortium announced Invictus, a new ...

The company's Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE), with its regenerative cooling system that could protect a hypersonic jet engine by instantly cooling the incoming air using liquid ...

UK advanced propulsion developer Reaction Engines is to close down after it collapsed into administration having failed to secure additional funding. Sarah O’Toole, Peter Dickens and Edward Williams ...

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 ...

Reaction Engines explored multiple rescue options throughout 2024 – including a merger, break-up sale or equity injection – as the hypersonic propulsion developer fruitlessly battled a growing ...

A bankrupt company’s propulsion system for hypersonic planes is being revived by Invictus, a new European Space Agency (ESA)-backed project aiming to build and fly a hydrogen-powered spaceplane by ...