One–hour flights to Europe? New designs in aerospace engineering.

Are space planes the next step in aerospace engineering? TechXplore explores a group of aerospace engineers from Germany designing a product development plan that could dramatically change air travel.

The aeronautical engineering and research facility sees potential to dramatically reduce intercontinental travel time. Responding to the growing demand for faster air travel, The DLR Institute of Space Systems is exploring passenger space travel.

Aerospace engineers estimate a space plane rocket–powered system could reduce travel time from the US to Europe to just one hour. A Europe–Australia flight itinerary could be reduced from a typical twenty hours to ninety minutes.

Just how far away is the engineering community from accomplishing its aeronautical feat? The first phases of concept reviews are scheduled to take place between 2016 and 2020. If funding, product development and fabrication go as planned, we could be seeing space plane tickets for sale in the 2040s.

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