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Skylon (Spacecraft)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Skylon is a design for an unpiloted spaceplane by the British company Reaction Engines Limited (REL). It uses a combined-cycle, air-breathing rocket engine to reach orbit in a single stage. A fleet of vehicles is envisaged; the design is aiming for re-usability up to 200 times. In paper studies, the costs per kilogram of payload are hoped to be lowered from the current £15,000/kg to £650/kg (as of 2011), including the costs of research and development (R D), with costs expected to fall much more over time after the initial expenditures have amortised. The cost of the programme has been estimated by the developer to be about $12 billion.
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