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Re:Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test by digsy on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:49PM (#21371241)
>I suspect the biggest difference between these companies is not talent or vision, but sens of urgency

Well that and the SABRE engine is a completely new design and SpaceXs engines are based on engines created in the 1960s and refined since then.

Its comparing apples and oranges.

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Re:Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test by walkingolof on Sunday October 27, 2019 @06:23PM (#21372826)
I think that “spaceplanes” where a great idea until SpaceX landed a Falcon9 first stage, after that point they are mostly a complication.
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