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This is amazing and inspirational engineering. Can they scale this up to taking humans & large payloads to orbit? It seems hard to run this business sustainabl
by xamdam 5y ago
This is amazing and inspirational engineering.
Can they scale this up to taking humans & large payloads to orbit? It seems hard to run this business sustainably on millionaire tourists, 4-minute science experiments and ads. Anyone have an idea of what their business plan is?
- gameswithgo 5y agono, the design isn’t applicable to orbital flight
- mch82 5y agoToday’s launch vehicle was SpaceShipTwo. The next model (SpaceShip III, revealed in March) is planned to be capable of flying London to Sydney in less than three hours.
- f00zz 5y agoThat was the original concept, unfortunately the current SpaceShip III won't be capable of point-to-point transportation. > "The current SpaceShip III is designed to provide just a few minutes of weightlessness and views for space tourists for Virgin Galactic, and is a production version of SpaceShipTwo, with improved maintenance and flight rate performance and does not have point to point transportation capabilities as previously envisioned in 2016." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShip_III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShip_III