Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test

Re:Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test by travisporter on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:26PM (#21367722)

Here’s to a single stage to orbit craft a la Kerbal space program’s RAPIER engine (although it’s probably still not realistic to expect better than two stage due to the rocket equation)

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Re:Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test by btbuilder on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:04AM (#21367968)

Pretty sure KSP RAPIER is a fictional copy of the described SABRE engine.

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Re:Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test by riffraff on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:48AM (#21368071)

The names seem to indicate that, both being similar kind of weapons.

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Re:Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test by travisporter on Sunday October 27, 2019 @08:48AM (#21369384)

Absolutely. https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/CR-7_R.A.P.I.E.R._E...

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