THE VIDEO SHELF · reusable spaceplane engines
The Three Rocketeers-2012:BBC-Future of Space trav
A BBC Four documentary following Alan Bond and Reaction Engines as they pursue the Skylon spaceplane and its SABRE engine. It covers the history from HOTOL and the heat-exchanger breakthrough.
Why HN readers recommended it
Linked in Reaction Engines threads as the story behind the engine, though one commenter is skeptical of the company's funding record.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- FirstSecondThoughts
- Topic
- reusable spaceplane engines
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2015
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Here's a documentary that was broadcast on BBC4 a couple of months ago about Bond and his quixotic journey to get HOTOL/Skylon into the sky: [VIDEO] It includes a test-firing of the new heat-exchanger at the end.
peterstjohn on Hacker News · 2012-11
In British aerospace company claims biggest engine advance since the jetI think this will be the single biggest revolution since aviation history. It would change the way we travel, send things up to space. Of course, military consequences will be interesting as well. I wonder if US military already has something like this in the …
curiousjorge on Hacker News · 2015-07
In Reaction Engines Reveals Secret of Sabre Frost Control Technology
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