Outside a modest chalet at the Paris Air Show last month sat a green and white aircraft about 10m long, with a fat body and stubby wings. It never took to the air test flights are scheduled for next year and did not grab any of the headlines from an event consumed by multibillion-pound orders fo
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Sydney to London in 4 hours or 80% shorter than the current time, it may be possible by 2030, should a hypersonic rocket engine being developed in the UK get off the ground.
It might sound like an expensive pipedream, but the UK Space Agency reckons it is possible. The government agency has been teaming up with private companies to explore new territory in low-orbit space and hypersonic travel.
The UK Space Agency is working closely with the Australian Space Agency in an agreement dubbed a “world-first Space Bridge.”
The Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) engine, from Oxfordshire-based Reaction Engines, looks to be the jewel in the crown of this new enterprise.