By 2030, China Plans Hypersonic aircraft: Beijing to New York in one hour!
By 2030, China Plans Hypersonic aircraft: Beijing to New York in one hour!
Traveling the 11,000 km separating Beijing from New York in just over an hour’s flight is the crazy project that the Chinese company Space Transportation (Lingkong Tianxing Technology) is planning for 2030. With a hypersonic rocket plane less required than a satellite launcher and ten times faster than traditional airliners. To prove that it’s not just a concept, the company’s statement was picked up on the Beijing City Economic Development website.
The aircraft in question could be used for space tourism or travel. His designer has already tested rocket engine prototypes since 2019. He has also designed a fast business jet demonstrator.
Hypersonic, the word that worries
The real prototype could carry out its first tests between 2023 and 2025. The first flight with passengers should take place in 2024. Once certified, the device will first be used for suborbital space tourism. The company then bets on the period 2025 and 2030 to develop its hypersonic airliner, of a larger size.
For the moment, apart from artists’ views, the firm has disclosed little information. It must be said that everything surrounding engines with hypersonic capacity remains in the realm of the sensitive. Ahead of other nations like Russia and the United States, China has been testing hypersonic missiles and gliders for quite a while. Some models will even work. A technological advance that worries the United States
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