Venus Aerospace Stargazer M4 could attract 12-hour flights of the past
If you were one of the few lucky people who had the privilege to fly on the concorde, you will probably remember the glamorous world of overhanging. Jet petting over the pond in a little more than three hours. This ended in 2003 due to the increasing operating costs and environmental problems of the Concorde. Don’t be annoyed, because overhaul tours celebrate a comeback with boom and the slim overall passenger jet. NASA is also in this game with its X-59 test level.
But what if you could fly from Miami to Dubai (~ 7,800 miles) in just two and a half hours? This is not a science fiction, but the vision of Venus Aerospace, a startup from Houston, Texas, which develops the Stargazer M4, the first reusable in the world of the world Hyperschall Airplanes that aim to redefine global air travel.
The Venus Aerospace Stargazer M4
This rocket aircraft can absorb 12 passengers at a speed of Mach 6, which corresponds to six times the speed of sound or 4,602 miles per hour. This makes it almost three times faster than the fastest modern military jet aircraft. For a certain context, the Concorde had a top speed of 1,354 miles per hour, while the US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Reconnaissance Aircraft, which was produced by Lockheed Martin, was able to reach 2.220 miles per hour. The Stargazer M4 is able to achieve a top speed of MACH 9 or 6,900 miles per hour.
Sarah Duggleby, co -founder and CEO of Venus Aerospace, believes that this breakthrough changes everything. Both you and her husband and CTO of the company, Andrew Duggguggy, worked as an engineers to Virgin Orbit and came in Japan in Japan in 2018. What if you could fly home to the USA for about an hour? They decided to bet on a new type of rocket engine in the pipeline that they would make sense in a plane.
RDRE: The MotorTech, the hyperschall flight enables
Despite the honestly biblical number of performance, the Stargazer M4 does not need a launchpad or a space port, but is designed to descend and land at conventional airports. Here is the basic theory behind it how it works. The nuclear technology that is made possible is a radical new drive system that is referred to as rotating detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) and is paired with a ramjet. The plane will use RDRE to safely climb from populated areas. As soon as it hits a cruise height of 270,000 feet, it changes to the rocket -powered mode and almost glides on the edge of space.
This radical design is called Venus Detonic Detonic -Ramjet engine (VDR2) and has no moving parts. In contrast to a conventional internal combustion engine that is burning slowly, this setup, as the name suggests, detects fuel in the event of overs sound speeds. Venus also ignores environmental problems. Your engine uses jet fuel and liquid hydrogen peroxide, potentially in carbon -negative forms and cleaner than today’s long commercial aircraft.
The company recently completed the first US flight test of a next generation RDRE and the first flight of an American developed engine of its kind. The test was carried out in the Spaceport America in New Mexico. While Venus has not published details such as flight duration or top speed, the engine has confirmed its functions under real conditions.
When does the Stargazer M4 start?
Now the question remains, when? The company says that test flights could appear as early as 2030, which is very optimistic. This timeline may be ambitious, but the market potential is valued per year of $ 200 billion. While such companies are extremely capital-intensive and often do not go out before the soil lifts, Airbus is an investor, and both NASA and the US air weapon are careful.
In view of the fact that this technology has both military and commercial application potential, the company’s focus on the full drive tests and vehicle integration will be fully shifted. While Venus is not yet a well -known name, they are definitely on the right track, and with promising recent developments, the world of commercial and private aviation could go through a transformation shift in the coming decade.
Image source: Venus Aerospace/YouTube
