How would it work? The 100 km space hops are puny compared to the 11,000 km distance between Beijing and New York. ICBM:s do it by flying trajectories with mul

How would it work? The 100 km space hops are puny compared to the 11,000 km distance between Beijing and New York. ICBM:s do it by flying trajectories with multi thousand kilometer apogees, crossing radiation belts etc. It's cheaper that way than going into a shallow high speed trajectory which requires almost orbital speeds and higher energies. (Even this wasn't obvious before ICBM:s - they worked on atmospheric cruise missiles like Navajo in parallel.) So, point to point does not look very synergistic with these suborbital technologies. New York to Europe is around 6000 km, still a factor of 60. Transatlantic point to point is far closer to orbital flights really than these space hops.