Bring Back the Skylon Today is the 74th anniversary of the opening of the Festival of Britain on 3 May 1951. Under the second post-war Labour administration and in circumstances still of extreme austerity the idea was t…

Bring Back the #Skylon!
This year will see the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Festival of Britain on 3 May 1951. Under the second post-war #Labour administration and in circumstances still of extreme austerity the idea was to help cheer us up.

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#scottmanley #esa #skylon

"Skylon Spaceplane Reborn As Invictus - Deep Space Update July 25th 2025"

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"Skylon Spaceplane Reborn As Invictus - Deep Space Update July 25th 2025"

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L’ESA relance le Skylon sous le nom d'Invictus Lancer un engin spatial orbital à l’horizontal est un objectif technique déjà ancien. L’Agence spatiale européenne et le cabinet britannique…

L'@Esa.int relance le #Skylon sous le nom d'#Invictus. Histoire à lire dans #Lachroniquespatiale

The Skylon at The Festival of Britain 1951

#SKYLON - 'A popular joke of the period was that, like the British economy of 1951, "It had no visible means of support"' - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_... also Skylon - www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1rz...

The Skylons were created by man. (lol!)

#skylon #reusablespacecraft #ssto #spaceplane #cylon #battlestargalactica

View of the Niagara Falls from the Skylon Tower. 2018

#photos #photography #PhotographersUnited #niagrafalls #skylon #canada #city

The Horseshoe Falls at Niagara taken from the Skylon Tower with the Maid of the Mist

Horseshoe Falls, Niagara Falls from the Skylon Tower #photography #NiagaraFalls #Skylon

I personally wished Congress had put the funding behind the now defunct #ReactionEngines #Skylon #SABRE engine for a space plane than the hypersonic missile.

Its takes #RocketLab 7.5M to get a small sat to Low Earth Orbit. Most everything else will exceed any 10M mark. #ReactionEngines #Skylon was suppose to get passengers to orbit and back for 10M, but went bankrupt a few months back.

Saab SSTO Spaceplane
#cutaway #crosssection #Skylon #Saab #robotsvdinosaurs #illustration

I can't decide if that is Tweety birds head, or bumblebee's head.
#elevators #skylon #niagarafalls #objects #500mm #yellow #machines #photography #windows

The Slylon Tower in Niagara Falls Ontario with lots of fluffy clouds behind it.

Cloudy Skylon.

#NiagaraFalls #SkylonTower #Skylon #Photography

"We're looking at commercial space flight." looking to enable everyone who wants to launch satellites – @JeremyNickless #SpaceUpUK #skylon