• for $1 billion each, for which it has forecast a market for at least 30 Skylons, while recurring costs of just $10 million per flight are predicted to...
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  • Skylon may refer to: Skylon (Festival of Britain), a landmark structure of the 1951 Festival of Britain Skylon (spacecraft), a proposed orbital spaceplane...
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    The Skylon Tower, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, is an observation tower that overlooks both the American Falls, New York, and the larger Horseshoe Falls,...
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  • decides to name them Skylons because they resemble the Pylon, but are in the sky. The online review site Premium Hollywood described "Skylons" in 2009 as a "tight...
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    The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that gave the illusion...
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  • Skylon is Ott's second album. It was released on 25 January 2008 by Twisted Records. "From Trunch to Stromness" - 11:59 "The Queen of All Everything" -...
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  • Rolls-Royce PLC and BAE Systems. Skylon is a design for a single-stage-to-orbit combined-cycle-powered orbital spaceplane. Skylon and the SABRE engine by which...
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    designed to achieve single-stage-to-orbit capability, propelling the proposed Skylon spaceplane to low Earth orbit. SABRE is an evolution of Alan Bond's series...
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  • Mach 0.9 Noise: 101 dBa at 450 m (1,480 ft) lateral Supersonic transport Skylon (spacecraft) Tupolev Tu-144 Myasishchev M-50 Morris, Steven (5 February...
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    advantage of the SSTO concept. Notable single stage to orbit concepts include Skylon, which used the hybrid-cycle SABRE engine that can use oxygen from the atmosphere...
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    (first stage) Pallas-1 (first stage) RLV-TD Rocket Lab Neutron (first stage) Skylon Starship (SpaceX) Stoke Space Nova Terran R (first stage) Tianlong-3 (first...
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    historical sites from the War of 1812. The observation deck of the nearby Skylon Tower offers the highest view of the falls, and in the opposite direction...
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  • Shpongle). He has released two albums on Twisted Records: Blumenkraft (2003), Skylon (2008), and three albums on Ottsonic: Mir (2011), Fairchildren (2015) and...
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    Atmospheric entry Hypersonic flight DARPA Falcon Project Reaction Engines Skylon (design study) Reaction Engines A2 (design study) HyperSoar (concept) Boeing...
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    Hampden is the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, and the re-usable Skylon spacecraft is being developed by Reaction Engines Limited; ABSL Space Products...
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    biomechanics. A conceptual building block of tensegrity is seen in the 1951 Skylon. Six cables, three at each end, hold the tower in position. The three cables...
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  • the agency is funding a single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane concept called Skylon. Scientific interest in space travel existed in the United Kingdom prior...
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    (first stage) Pallas-1 (first stage) RLV-TD Rocket Lab Neutron (first stage) Skylon Starship (SpaceX) Stoke Space Nova Terran R (first stage) Tianlong-3 (first...
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    Chinese reusable experimental spacecraft – Chinese reusable spacecraft CSSHQ Skylon (spacecraft), a British reusable uncrewed spaceplane in development Space...
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    McDonnell Douglas DC-X, and Skylon. By 2020, most SSTO developmental projects had failed with the exception of Skylon, which continues development....
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    McDonnell Douglas DC-X Quad (rocket) Reusable Vehicle Testing program by JAXA Skylon (spacecraft) Space Shuttle retirement Zarya Spaceflight portal Mark Wade...
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    (first stage) Pallas-1 (first stage) RLV-TD Rocket Lab Neutron (first stage) Skylon Starship (SpaceX) Stoke Space Nova Terran R (first stage) Tianlong-3 (first...
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    submission of 11.81 miles (19.01 km) in cumulative distance skywalking from the Skylon Tower at a height of 520 feet (160 m) traversing the 1,300 feet (400 m)...
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    The Wall Street Journal. 15 December 2000. Retrieved 30 December 2011. "Skylon Assessment Report" (PDF). UK Space Agency. April 2011. p. 18. Retrieved...
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    (first stage) Pallas-1 (first stage) RLV-TD Rocket Lab Neutron (first stage) Skylon Starship (SpaceX) Stoke Space Nova Terran R (first stage) Tianlong-3 (first...
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    Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel Historical IXV In development Airbus Skylon Space Rider SpaceLiner...
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    VentureStars resupply the titular commercial space station. Lockheed Martin X-33 Skylon (spacecraft) Orbital Sciences X-34 "AeroSpace Online:X-33 Advanced Technology...
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    hypersonic airliner, and the Reaction Engines SABRE for the Reaction Engines Skylon spaceplane. During the Cold War, the United States designed and ground-tested...
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    Mist loads at the base of the tower. "History of Niagara Falls towers". Skylon Tower. Archived from the original on August 31, 2012. Retrieved October...
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    Brighton Thinnest tall tower in the world Osaka Tower 160 m 1966  Japan Osaka Skylon Tower 1965  Canada Niagara Falls Blackpool Tower 158 m 1894  United Kingdom...
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