The U.S. arm of U.K.-based Reaction Engines completed testing of its thermal management platform designed to power engines for high-Mach flight at its Colorado site as part of the Foreign Comparative Testing campaign that was first announced in July. The company said Monday it demonstrated its engine precooler heat exchanger in partnership with the Department […] More

The U.S. business of U.K. company Reaction Engines has appointed national security and aerospace experts Mark Lewis and John “JV” Venable to the newly established advisory board. Venable and Lewis are the inaugural members of Reaction Engines Inc.’s board of advisers tasked with guiding the company’s strategy and advancing market growth initiatives for thermal management […] More

U.K.-based Reaction Engines has kicked off testing of its high-Mach propulsion system under a contract with the Department of Defense.  The company said Thursday it started the testing campaign as part of the Foreign Comparative Testing Program, which seeks to discover, test and evaluate foreign technologies that could meet U.S. defense technical needs and emerging […] More

Rolls-Royce and Reaction Engines have agreed to team up to build high-speed aircraft propulsion platforms and explore the use of Reaction Engines' thermal management technologies in hybrid-electric systems and gas turbine engines for defense and civil aerospace platforms.

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Reaction Engines conducted a ground-based test for a precooler heat exchanger developed in partnership with BAE Systems for a Sabre-built rocket engine.

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Boeing has invested in Reaction Engines through its ventures arm to assist the U.K.-based company in its efforts to develop a hypersonic propulsion technology. Reaction Engines has developed a heat exchanger that works to prevent overheating of engine components at high speeds as part of its Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine technology program, Boeing said Wednesday. […] More

Chris Allam, engineering director of the military air and information business at BAE Systems, has joined Reaction Engines‘ board of directors. Allam will be responsible for coordinating joint efforts of BAE and Reaction Engines to develop the SABRE-class aerospace engine technology, Reaction Engines said Monday. His appointment came after BAE invested $31.85 million into Reaction Engines […] More

BAE Systems Plc has forged a partnership with Reaction Engines to inject $31.85 million into the latter company“™s development work for a new class of aerospace engine. BAE said Monday it will purchase 20 percent of Reaction Engines“™ share capital and Reaction Engines will have access to BAE“™s industrial, technical and capital resources in order to demonstrate […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted a series of hot-fire tests on three reaction control system engines for the propulsion system of Boeing‘s Crew Space Transportation-100 service module. The CST-100 Starliner engines were tested up to 4,000 pulses and 1,600 seconds at NASA‘s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Monday. Eileen Drake, Aerojet Rocketdyne president and CEO, said the tests […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has handed over to NASA four rocket engines that are slated for integration into the core stage of the agency“™s Space Launch System rocket.

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Aerojet Rocketdyne has concluded a test of a thruster system for NASA“™s Orion spacecraft that will launch aboard the Space Launch System rocket as part of Exploration Mission-1. The company said Monday it conducted the qualification test at its Redmond, Wash.-based facility to demonstrate the reaction control system“™s capability to withstand shock and vibration as […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has produced and delivered engines that Boeing will integrate into spacecraft the latter company is building under NASA‘s Commercial Crew Program. Boeing will install MR-104J engines on the CST-100 Starliner crew module inside the  Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility located at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday. Each Starliner capsule is designed for reuse up […] More