Design
Like the RB545, the SABRE design is neither a conventional rocket engine nor jet engine, but a Precooled Hybrid Air Breathing Rocket Engine that burns liquid hydrogen fuel combined with an oxidant of either compressor-fed gaseous air or stored liquid oxygen fed using a turbopump.
At the front of the engine a simple translating axisymmetric shock cone inlet slows the air to subsonic speeds using just two shock reflections.
Part of the air then passes through a precooler into the central core, with the remainder passing directly through a ring of bypass ramjets. The central core of SABRE behind the precooler uses a turbo-compressor run off the same gaseous helium loop Brayton cycle which compresses the air and feeds it into four high pressure combined cycle rocket engine combustion chambers.
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