The Chinese company Space Transportation presented an ambitious project in Dubai that plans to transport passengers in a suborbital spaceplane by 2030.
There are no transportation problems in Dubai. You can take the subway or rent a car. Speed lovers can even drive sports cars at an affordable price. In this case, Ferrari hire Dubai is your choice. Rental services are very fast and convenient in this city. You can rent a car in a few clicks and feel like a sheik. Or you can get on a plane and fly anywhere. But Space Transportation decided to organize space travel.
Company representatives say that they are developing a wing missile that will carry passengers very quickly from one part of the world to another. It is planned to be more economically advantageous
than satellite-based missiles and faster than planes. In fact, Space Transportation plans to build a flying device that will combine an airplane and a high-speed missile. The developers were inspired by the design of the secret Boeing X-37, creating a spaceplane.
The company received funding of about $46.3 million to develop its aircraft from the future in 2021. The creators expect it to be able to travel up to 4,000 kilometers per hour.
The spacecraft will fly on the Dubai-Beijing route in a suborbital trajectory. A plane travels 5,000 km distance between these cities in more than 7 hours. Then how a spacecraft will be able to travel that distance in about an hour!
Fantastic Adventure
The company posted a video presentation on its website that shows how passengers get into a spacecraft like a regular plane. Before launching, the system is in a vertical position and launched like a rocket. At a certain height, the spaceplane separates from the first winged stage and continues its flight. The rocket-propelled wing is reusable and returns to the take-off point after the spaceplane is separated from it. The passenger stage reaches its destination, blows out its footholds, and sits on its tail.
What is the suborbital flight?
It is considered to be a space flight at altitudes higher than 100 kilometers. At this altitude, the object crosses the Karman Line and actually enters space. Suborbital flight is essentially a space flight, but the aircraft does not reach the orbit of space satellites. At this altitude, it can pick up huge speeds, up to a few thousand kilometers per hour.
Suborbital flights can transport passengers from one point of the world to another in a few hours or even less.
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When a spacecraft will fly?
The company expects to begin prototype testing next year, and the first flight with people in 2025. Passenger transport is planned for 2030.
Overall, China has been testing suborbital and orbital launches from Jiukang since 2020.
Earlier in the mass media, there was information that Space Transportation had conducted the tenth successful test flight of the «Tianxing-1» rocket. It will be the prototype of a future transport ship.
Suborbital travel is just around the corner?
In general, this type of flight is not something fantastic in the modern world. Some American companies have already successfully completed them. Elon Musk's SpaceX sent a non-professional crew to orbit, where they spent three days and safely returned to Earth. And Richard Branson, the owner of the Virgin Galactic, and several other passengers were aboard SpaceShipTwo at an altitude of 80 km - almost into outer space.
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Both spacecraft allowed their passengers to remain in zero gravity for a few minutes before coming back to the launch stage.
Some time ago, Virgin Galactic announced that they are going to transport people by spaceports in foreign lands. They will build them in many cities around the world.
The company used the Spaceport America launch stage in New Mexico, but authorities banned them after the first unsuccessful suborbital flight. They are expected to resume flights and ticket sales by the end of this year.
As early as 2019, the airport in Abu Dhabi and the Virgin Galactic Company signed an agreement to build a cosmodrome at Al-Ayn Airport, but there has been no news since then.
Last year, the Blue Origin agreed with the UAE authorities to develop the space market in the country, including the construction of a cosmodrome.
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