New Space plane Skylon and the SABRE engine design for initial prototype development

The new space plane that can take off and land from conventional runways is only one step closer to reality.

Following a series of meetings in September 2010 at the International Space Innovation Center in Harwell, U.K., to look at the feasibility of a Reaction Engines design for a new generation of space-flight vehicle, the European Space Agency recently approved the Skylon vehicle and the SABRE (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) engine design for initial prototype development.

The meeting at which approval was given brought together nearly a hundred experts from Europe, Russia, the U.S., South Korea, and Japan to examine the technical and economic prospects for the new hybrid Air-Breathing-and-Rocket-Propulsion technology for future space planes.

The premise of the propulsion system is to develop a single-stage, fully reusable launch vehicle with short turnaround time and a flexible design capable of varied mission operations, including human transportation, cargo payload, and scientific missions.

According to Reaction Engines Limited, delivering payloads into orbit could drop from $15,000 per kilo to less than $1,000--vastly reducing the price of delivering payloads, such as telecommunications satellites, into orbit.its regularly get support from people.this space plane design going to get very top position.