(Source: Reaction Engines)

Reaction Engines Ltd has recently acquired two new manufacturing companies in the local area:

• Crossman Engineering Ltd, specialising in fabrication
• Brite Precision, (specialising) in precision machining.

The acquisition of both companies has significantly extended Reaction Engines Ltd’s production capabilities, which is essential to our future programme for SKYLON.

The ECM Machines at our heat exchanger production facility have now been assembled and commissioned; they are functioning as expected.

We moved premises at the beginning of this month and are now located upstairs in the Innovation Centre with much more space!

REL was featured in the November 2009 issue of the BIS Spaceflight magazine.

Space Solar Power:

REL also recently published a document describing the advantages of Skylon in constructing satellite solar power systems:

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