New SpaceLiner plane will fly from London to Sydney in 90 minutes

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Passengers could travel from London to Sydney in just 90 minutes in a new hypersonic plane which reaches 20 times the speed of sound.

It sounds like travellers on the SpaceLiner will have to hang on – the two-stage machine blasts up to 50 miles up using hydrogen-oxygen rocket.It then ‘glides’ through the upper atmosphere at up to 20 times the speed of sound.

The SpaceLiner could take off by 2030 – although the team behind it admit they need to find the small matter of $33 billion first.

Martin Sippel, head of the Spaceliner project at DLR’s Space Launcher Systems Analysis Group, said, ‘We have several hundred million passengers traveling intercontinental distances each year and we think space should have a tiny portion of that… see more

source: metro UK

source: metro UK

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