Europe reveals “Invictus”, its first hypersonic plane dedicated to space

Invictus must fly in 2031. Moreover, The European space agency which finances the project is currently working with the consulting firm Frazer-Nash to find its suppliers. Moreover, The supersonic aircraft must rely on British technology, dedicated to the Skylon project that went bankrupt last year.

Skylon. Similarly, a British project from the company Reaction Engines LTD, which went bankrupt last year, will be reborn from its ashes. Similarly, The hypersonic plane will become a European space plane, called “Invictus” and funded by the European Space Agency. Furthermore, Like the United States with the NASA X-37B orbital plane, or Chinese Shenlong, Europe wants its own ship.

The plane is to fly by 2031. it was learned from a press release from the Frazer-Nash consulting firm who takes care of finding the future suppliers who will work on the aircraft. He announced that europe reveals “invictus”, its first Invictus will be able to take off and land on a landing track as a real plane. It could have various applications and uses.

“We are impatient to see how the work is developing. the opportunity it presents to stimulate economic growth and national security,” said Tony Forsythe, head of space technology at the British space agency, in the same statement.

The United Kingdom will have great responsibility in the project as Invictus intends to rely on the plans of. the Skylon project of the company Reaction Engines Ltd. Additionally, The latter had particularly looked at a propulsion system coupling the best of both worlds between a reactor. a rocket engine.

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Called “saber”. for Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine, the hybrid concept would propel the aircraft over Mach 5 (5 times the sound of the sound) at europe reveals “invictus”, its first an altitude of more than 26 kilometers thanks to liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (depending on the flight phase).

Europe, in all its diversity, does not only agree on a single device. Invictus already has a competitor at Dassault Aviation. called Vortex and announced at the Bourget show, with the support of the Ministry of the French Army. Other startups also work on orbital planes, such as Sierra Nevada Corp, Dawn Aerospace and Radian Space.

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