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China’s Hypersonic Plane may see passengers as early as 2025

Sat 05 Feb 2022    
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Space Transportation, a tech firm has revealed plans for a hypersonic plane that will be able to travel at 7,000 kilometres per hour. 

The Chinese company hopes to connect some of the world’s major cities by just an hour of travel.

As per their website, the Tianxing I rocket takes off vertically with a smaller pod filled with passengers attached.

When it reaches the right altitude, the pod detaches and the rockets return to Earth.

The company has been developing the plane for several years, and it’s hoped that it will be able to launch with passengers by 2025.

In animated mock-ups of a proposed flight on the website, passengers can be seen checking into a centre in what appears to be Shanghai ahead of their trip to Dubai.

An infographic in the video shows the 6,400 kilometres journey being made in just an hour.

Speaking about Tianxing I, Space Transportation said in a statement, “We are developing a winged rocket for a high-speed, point-to-point transportation, which is lower in cost than rockets that carry satellites and faster than traditional aircraft.”

As per reports, test flights are set to take place next year, with the first uncrewed flight in 2024 and the first crewed flight to launch the following year.

The company is also working on an orbital version of travel by 2030, which would see passengers taken into space before orbiting the planet and returning back to any point on Earth.

Source: Agencies


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