Texas-based Venus Aerospace aims to develop a vehicle nine times faster than the speed of sound through a groundbreaking aircraft model called the Stargazer.
Design of the Stargazer supersonic aircraft. Photo: Venus Aerospace
The Stargazer passenger plane is being built to reach speeds of 6,800 mph (11,104 km/h), allowing it to complete the journey from New York to Sydney in 90 minutes, Tech Times reported on May 27. Even the Concorde, a pioneer in supersonic aviation, only reached Mach 2 (2,414 km/h).
For comparison, no aircraft has exceeded Mach 6.7 (8,273 km/h) since the American X-15 experimental aircraft did so in 1967, according to NASA. The famous Lockheed SR-71, also known as the Blackbird, came closest to the record with a top speed of Mach 3.2 (3,951 km/h). However, these achievements have been overshadowed by the incredible speed of rocket development, which regularly breaks the Mach 9 barrier to reach low Earth orbit at speeds of around 23,358 km/h.
The Stargazer is Venus Aerospace's ambitious rocket-powered project that could revolutionize commercial air travel . While it uses rocket propulsion, the vehicle will take off and land like a conventional plane using jet engines.
Andrew Duggleby, co-founder and chief technology officer of Venus Aerospace, notes that using rocket engines at airports is impractical due to the noise level. Instead, once the aircraft reaches a predetermined altitude and flies away from populated areas, it can rely on its rotating rocket engine (RDRE) to continue its journey.
An Khang (According to Tech Times )
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