Silver Dart

PlanetSpace looking at point to point suborbital transport

Conceptual Drawing of PlanetSpace's Silver Dart

PlanetSpace, a company that is competing for NASA contracts to re-supply the International Space Station is looking to use is orbital craft for suborbital point to point travel. This means that a trip from New York to Paris could conceivably take 20 minutes. They claim that the silver dart will be able to achieve this by gliding over 25,000 miles at hypersonic speeds.

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