(Source: The Register)

The Register interviewed Reaction Engines representatives at their exhibit at the Farnborough International Airshow this week about their Skylon SSTO project. Highlights include:

• SABRE engine pre-cooler technology validation is in progress
• German space agency DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) will test the novel air- or oxygen-cooled combustion chamber.
• Technical director Richard Varvill expects that "the powers that be will ask us to build a complete test engine". Complete engine could be in tests within "three to four years".
• Merchant banks are showing interest in investment

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A Youtube version of the Skylon passenger & logistics module movie highlighted in an earlier report: