[LONDON] Rolls-Royce Holdings is strengthening a partnership with Britain's Reaction Engines to work on high-speed aircraft engines which could be used for a Virgin Galactic Holdings supersonic jet.
Rolls-Royce will invest £20 million in Reaction, according to a spokesperson for the larger manufacturer. The companies, which have worked together since 2018, will explore opportunities in hypersonic and supersonic flight. The agreement is part of a wider push from Rolls-Royce into the realm, after recently announced partnerships with Virgin Galactic and Boom Technology, a startup competing to bring a new supersonic aircraft to the market.
Reaction Engines has developed a turbine which it calls an"air-breathing rocket engine" that can operate in both normal flight and in space. It rapidly cools air, allowing aircraft to go from zero to five times the speed of sound and even faster in space flight. Rolls-Royce plans to explore how this technology could be used in the company's own combustion engines, as well as its potential use in future hybrid-electric propulsion systems as it looks to make flying more efficient and sustainable, the company's director of global strategy and business development, Mark Thompson, said in a statement.
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