To: KevinDavis
re: air-breathing rocket engine that could power the Skylon spaceplane.
I'm no rocket scientist, but even to my very limited knowledge of such things it seems an air-breathing anything would be seriously challenged in space.
3 posted on
03/11/2009 8:33:13 PM PDT by
jwparkerjr
(God Bless America!)
To: jwparkerjr
Plenty of air to breathe for the first 100,000 feet. One of the great inefficiencies of traditional staged-rocket to orbit is the need to drag a lot of heavy oxidiser through the atmosphere.
4 posted on
03/11/2009 8:36:55 PM PDT by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: jwparkerjr
if you read the article the engine changes from an air breather to a liquid oxygen breather at higher altitudes.
21 posted on
03/12/2009 5:45:40 AM PDT by
Vaquero
( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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