Germany asks startup to build hypersonic spaceplane by 2028
https://thenextweb.com/news/germany-commissions-polaris-hypersonic-spaceplane
Germany asks startup to build hypersonic spaceplane by 2028
https://thenextweb.com/news/germany-commissions-polaris-hypersonic-spaceplane
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I’m sure they can get a fully working 3d render by then
Sounded like yet another scheme for funneling federal funds to the state of bavaria at first, but intersestingly it’s about a real company in Bremen.
Same country having the Hamburg Elbphilarmonie, the Berlin airport, the Stuttgart train station, and the Munich 2. Stammstrecke at minimum 3x initial budget and delayed by 10+ years each.
You want Star Destroyers because that’s you get them.
If they ask nicely maybe it’ll actually happen (spoiler: it did not actually happen)
Remind me in 3 years when it’s supposed to launch.
Getting all the way to orbit is very hard. I doubt they will be able to do it. But there are a lot of applications for hypersonic technology short of going to orbit.
If you can just get the payload into space, you have a reusable ICBM.
If you can get the payload into space but lose the plane in the process, you have a normal ICBM.
Being able to deliver a 1 ton payload from Berlin to Moscow gives Germany a lot of *diplomatic* options.
I think that timeline is highly optimistic at best. Developing something like this from scratch I think is going to take more than 3 years