Published:
2 feb 2022 02:44 GMT
The first manned space tourism flight is planned for 2025.
A Chinese aerospace company has revealed the concept of a suborbital aircraft it is developing for space tourism and supersonic business flights.
The project combines the characteristics of an airplane and a slider wing powered by two rockets. The presentation with computer generated images on the site web from Space Transportation shows passengers boarding the aircraft which then takes off for suborbital flight and following detaching from the wing and propellers reusable, returns to Earth. At the port of arrival, the aircraft lands vertically.
The company notes that the flight between Beijing and New York will last only one hour.
“We are developing winged rockets that offer transportation point by point high speed, be cheaper that rockets carrying satellites and faster than conventional aircraft,” explained a company spokesman told Yicheng Times.
Last August, Space Transportation announced that it had attracted over 300 million yuan ($47 million) for the project, with a view to the first flight of the prototype in 2023 and the first manned space tourism flight in 2025.
The firm also reported in August and September the successful tests de cohetes Tianxing 1 y Tianxing 2.
