Chinese space plane company targets suborbital tourism, point-to-point travel by 2025

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Space Transportation has big dreams.

would aim to provide rapid transport between two locations on Earth through suborbital travel and be fully reusable.Space Transportation's planned space plane will launch vertically, as shown in this artist's illustration.demonstrates the ambitious plans. It shows animated passengers boarding a plane attached to a wing powered by rockets.

Even more ambitiously, a test flight of a global, or orbital, crewed space vehicle is planned by 2030, the company says. Space Transportation was founded in 2018, according to the company's website. If all of this seems a bit fast, the plans have not appeared out of the blue. Space Transportation announced last August that it had

 

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Every year there is such an 'spacecraft' shown to the media. Sydney to London in 4 hours. Beijing to Dubai in 1 hr. It's just a click bait. Nothing more.

AJ_FI Looks like the passengers will need some SpaceTraining to stay calm for this flight! 😬😳

AJ_FI We will watch their career with great interest

AJ_FI This will undoubtedly slip, but I think this IS the sweet spot for emergent space co's. Not 10min edge-of-space tourism, but suborbital, city-to-city lobs that get you from New York to Tokyo in 90min.

AJ_FI Space tourism is still far away. It is just a game for super rich people. There are lots of things to on interplanetary exploration.

SpaceIntellige3

AJ_FI They will pull it off

👀👀

i won't even have my Cybertruck by then

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