An aviation startup is working on making hypersonic flights a reality by allowing people to travel around the world from one place to another in just an hour, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Venus Aerospace Corp has touted that its hypersonic spaceplane would be capable of carrying passengers from Los Angeles to Tokyo in about an hour — a flight that otherwise takes 11 to 13 hours.
The company is the brainchild of former Virgin Orbit LLC employees Sarah Duggleby (code-writing launch engineer) and her husband Andrew Duggleby (launch, payload and propulsion operations). The idea emerged after the couple missed Sarah’s grandmother’s 95th birthday due to the long duration.
We’ve heard of supersonic jets — jets that travel faster than the speed of sound. However, what Venus Aerospace is aiming to develop are hypersonic jets, which are way faster than supersonic. Venus has planned its space lane to be as fast as 9,000 miles per hour or around 14,484 kilometers per hour. This is almost 12 times faster than the speed of sound (which maxes out at 1234kmph).
Ref: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/hypersonic-plane-can-fly-over-14-000-kmph-reach-anywhere-on-earth-in-one-hour/ar-AAKzkhf on 1st June 2021
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