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Reaction Engines update October 2009
Rocketeer — Mon, 02/11/2009 - 5:21pm
(Source: Reaction Engines)
This October the 60th International Astronautical Congress was held in the city of Daejeon, South Korea and Reaction Engines used the event to launch the SKYLON Users’ Manual. The Manual describes the payload bay interfaces and supplementary systems like upper stages and personnel module that enhance the capability of the basic SKYLON vehicle.
Mark Hempsell presented three papers explaining the background to the Manual and these supplementary systems.
Reaction Engines was also part of the small UK pavilion at the trade exhibition that accompanies the Congress showing the SKYLON operations video and offering hardcopies of the Users’ Manual. The photograph shows the stand manned by Simon Feast who designed it.
Website News
In support of the release of the SKYLON Users' Manual (available in the PDF Documents section), a new library of images of the various payload bay components has been created, containing images of all the items in medium and high resolution.
FAQ's
The site now has a page for Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) to address some of the most common questions about SKYLON.
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