By Graziella L. Posted September 18, 2022 10:38
Today you need a seven-hour flight from Paris to spend a few days exploring New York. But by 2027, SpaceX plans to reduce the trip to 30 minutes, thanks to its Starship rocket.
Do you want to spend your holidays in New York ? Nowadays, you have to prepare your trip a little in advance, since 7 hours of flight across the Atlantic are needed from Paris. But the SpaceX rocket builder intends to make it a routine trip, where we could leave on a whim, by 2027. Indeed, these ultra fast flightsaboard the spaceship rocketit will be reduced to only 30 minutesLat almost 27,000 km / h.
“It really is a possibility for our Starship rocket. For the moment we are focusing on the Moon, Mars but also on flights from one point to another on the Earth “, Gwynne Shotwell said, the president of SpaceX, RTL. Other routes should be offered within 5 years, in particular a Sydney-Zurich in 50 minutes or one Los Angeles-Shanghai in 36 minutes. The machines could therefore accommodate a one hundred peoplefrom an offshore platform, at prices reserved for a single person elite, hitherto unknown.
A ecological aberration and a project contrary to all concerns for the environment and the demand for energy sobriety. The launch of a rocket almost consumes 200 tons of CO2, much more than a simple airliner. Furthermore, concerns about the rocket taking off to the moon underline the difficulty of launching such a machine in time. Without forgetting theecological footprint to reach the launch pad, located in the open sea.
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