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Recent publications regarding SKYLON and the SABRE engine are available for download here. All papers are in Adobe® PDF format - you may need to install the free Adobe® Reader® software to view them.


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Solar Power Satellites and Spaceplanes: The SKYLON Initiative.
Tony Martin, Richard Varvill, Alan Bond.
September 2008

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SKYLON Users' Manual
Compiled: Mark Hempsell and Roger Longstaff
Revision 1.
January 2010

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The SKYLON Spaceplane - Progress to Realisation
Richard Varvill, Alan Bond
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS),
Volume 61, pp. 412-418, 2008
Design and Testing of the Contra-rotating Turbine for the Scimitar Pre-cooled Mach 5 Cruise Engine
Richard Varvill, Guillermo Paniagua, Hiromasa Kato, Mark Thatcher
IAC 2008 C4.5.3
Heat exchanger development at REL
Richard Varvill
IAC 2008 C4.5.2
Heat exchanger design in combined cycle engines
Helen Webber, Simon Feast, Alan Bond
IAC 2008 C4.5.1
Design of an orbital base facility for complex missions
Simon Feast, Alan Bond
IAC 2008 D3.3.1
The Scimitar Pre-cooled Mach 5 Engine
F. Jivraj, R. Varvill, A. Bond and G. Paniagua
2ND EUROPEAN CONFERENCE FOR AEROSPACE SCIENCES (EUCASS)
The Sensitivity of Pre-cooled Air-breathing Engine Performance to
Heat Exchanger Design Parameters
Helen Webber, Alan Bond and Mark Hempsell
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS),
Volume 60, pp. 188-196, 2007
Project TROY - A Strategy for a Mission to Mars
Reaction Engines Ltd. 40 pages.
January 2008
The SKYLON Spaceplane
Richard Varvill and Alan Bond
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS),Volume 57, pp. 22-32, 2004
Application of Carbon Fibre Truss Technology to the Fuselage Structure of the SKYLON Spaceplane
Richard Varvill and Alan Bond
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS), Volume 57, pp. xx-xx, 2004
(Not yet published)
SKYLON - A Realistic Single Stage Spaceplane
Alan Bond, Richard Varvill, John Scott-Scott and Tony Martin
Spaceflight, Volume 45, pp. 158-161, April 2003
Considerations for Passenger Transport by Advanced Spaceplanes
J.L. Scott-Scott, M. Harrison and A.D. Woodrow
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS),Volume 56, pp. 118-126, 2003
A Comparison of Propulsion Concepts for SSTO Reuseable Launchers
Richard Varvill and Alan Bond
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS),Volume 56, pp. 108-117, 2003
An Experimental Pre-cooler for Air-breathing Rocket Engines
James Jason Murray, Christopher Mark Hempsell and Alan Bond
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS), Volume 54, pp. 199-209, 2001
Further technical details for SKYLON are also available for download.

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New: Reaction Engines Ltd Engine Project Names
Mark Hempsell
December 2008
SKYLON Trajectory Data
SKYLON configuration C1 trajectory data - for air-breathing ascent, rocket ascent
and re-entry
This file is a Microsoft® Excel Spreadsheet
SKYLON External Drawings
SKYLON Configuration C1 External Drawings
This file is an Autocad® DXF drawing
SKYLON External Drawings
SKYLON Configuration C1 External Drawings
This file is identical to the one above in Adobe® PDF format

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