As presented by Reaction Engines, Skylon is anything but another Space Shuttle. It would take off from a conventional runway, accelerating to Mach 5.4 at 26 kilometers altitude before switching its engines over to internal liquid oxygen mode to take the craft to low-Earth orbit.


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    The pre-cooler technology is the key. It allows the incoming airstream to be cooled from over 1000 degrees C to minus 150 C in less than 1/100th of a second without any frost blockage.

I'm trying to wrap my head around how this is possible.


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