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Tag Archives: transatlantic
Suborbital is Next to Useless for Point to Point Travel
Spacetransportnews has a link to another in the long list of nontechnical space dreams. Earth’s radius is about 7000 km. The Van Allen belts start somewhat above 500 km from Earth’s surface. Hence, ballistic arcs have to be either very … Continue reading
Hypersonic Cruise for the V Prize
The Virginia Spaceport at Wallops (east coast of USA, south from New York) advocates want to create a prize to foster use for the spaceport, and have floated an idea of a “one hour to Europe” style prize, the V … Continue reading
Posted in Models, RLV:s, Uncategorized
Tagged cruise, hypersonic, Slug, transatlantic, v prize, virginia, wallops, X-24C
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