It only takes 1 hour to get from Beijing to new york? Supersonic aircraft may provide new options for space travel.

According to the Rob Report, Space Transportation Company, a private commercia

It only takes 1 hour to get from Beijing to new york? Supersonic aircraft may provide new options for space travel.

According to the Rob Report, Space Transportation Company, a private commercial space company in China, is developing a supersonic plane, which provides a brand-new choice for suborbital flight and space travel.

It takes only 1 hour from Beijing to new york, and the speed of supersonic aircraft can reach 6000 km/h.

Hypersonic flight means that the flight speed in the atmosphere is more than 6 times the speed of sound, that is, flying at a speed of about 6000 km/h.

So how fast is hypersonic flight? Take Beijing to new york as an example. The distance between the two cities is about 1 .65,438+0,000 kilometers. The supersonic plane of Kong Ling Tianxing Company may fly from new york to Beijing within1hour.

In other words, supersonic aircraft are faster than traditional aircraft. Skyline said that compared with rockets that send satellites into space, supersonic aircraft have lower transportation costs.

Kong Ling Tianxing divides R&D work into three steps, namely, technical test platform, space tourist vehicle and hypersonic vehicle. So, what's the difference between supersonic aircraft and rockets and airplanes? Simply put, a supersonic plane can be understood as a rocket with wings.

The take-off process of this supersonic plane can be directly seen through the video released by official website, a skyline company. The supersonic plane is located between two launch boosters. When the plane is ready to take off, its head is vertical to the sky, and then it is launched into the sky with the help of rocket power like a rocket. The launch booster does not accompany the entire mileage of the aircraft, but returns to the launch pad within a few seconds after the supersonic aircraft takes off for the next use.

Then, the supersonic plane glides without power, and the flight speed can reach 6000 km/h. Finally, it uses rocket power to land vertically.

Kong Ling Tianxing Company also has clear plans for the practical application of supersonic aircraft. According to official website, the company expects to carry out the flight test of the sub-orbital space tourism scale verification machine before 2023, and plans to try the first flight test of supersonic aircraft in 2024, and realize the manned flight goal of sub-orbital spacecraft in 2025. Not only that, they are also looking forward to the test flight of supersonic manned spacecraft in 2030.

According to public information, the company was established on 20 18 and 12 on 20 19. Kong Ling Tianxing Company completed 1 100 million yuan Pre-A financing, and completed 300 million yuan A financing in August of 20021year, followed by 202 1 year.

Recently, the company has been conducting a number of tests on its Tianxing 1 and Tianxing-2 aircraft. The latest test flight was on1October 23rd this year, and 10 test flight was successfully completed.

Or provide new options for space travel.

This supersonic aircraft is suitable for "suborbital flight", so let's first look at the difference between "orbital flight" and "suborbital flight". Simply put, the difference between them lies in whether they have reached the "first cosmic speed" and whether they can "make uniform circular motion around the earth" (hereinafter referred to as "circular motion").

Specifically, "orbital flight" means that the speed of the aircraft reaches 7.9 km/s, which is often called "the first cosmic speed", and it can move around the earth; However, the speed of the "suborbital flight" aircraft did not reach the first cosmic speed, and it could not move around the earth, but the flying height reached the "Carmen Line" of 100 km.

Then, on July 20th, the blue-originated "New Shepard" rocket sent humans into space for the first time. The spacecraft reached the highest altitude 106 km, and its founder Jeff Bezos and four other passengers boarded the spacecraft. The whole process lasted 1 1 minute.

In addition, on February 8, 20021,12, Japanese entrepreneur and billionaire tomoyuki Maezawa took the Russian Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft to the International Space Station for a 12-day "space visit". In addition, he also plans to start a six-day "trip around the moon" on the starship of Space Exploration Technology Company in 2023.

Judging from the travel cost of space travel, Virgin Galactic's suborbital space plane costs $450,000 per seat, while the first suborbital launch of blue origin costs $28 million per seat, and the cost to the International Space Station is even higher, about tens of millions of dollars.

According to the founder of Kong Ling Tianxing Company, the ticket price of each seat of supersonic aircraft is expected to be 450,000 RMB. Judging from the cost of space travel, Skywalker seems to be more attractive than the expensive "space tickets" of these foreign space companies.

Not only in space travel, point-to-point air passenger transport, logistics and other fields, this supersonic aircraft may bring new changes with "super speed".

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