Point-to-point Commercial Space Transportation in the National Aviation System Final Report.

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• Creators:
  Hunter, Ruth A. McFarlane ; Wright, Richard
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Air traffic control
  • Commercial space transportation
  • Supersonic speed
  • Supersonic aircraft
  • Hypersonic aircraft
  • Feasibility analysis
  • Evaluation and assessment
  • Air traffic control
  • Aerodynamics--Supersonics
  • High-speed aeronautics
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  The advent of suborbital transport brings promise of point-to-point (PTP) long distance transportation as a revolutionary mode of air transportation. In 2008, the International Space University (ISU) of Strasbourg, France, published a report1 documenting its appraisal of PTP transportation technology. This report describes the conditions that should be put in place to foster and sustain the growth of this industry from the technical, market, financial, infrastructure, safety, and legal perspectives. The ISU study calculates that transatlantic flight times for suborbital vehicles from London to New York would take less than 1 ¼ hours, less than one-third the travel time required by the supersonic aircraft Concorde and a fraction of that required by conventional commercial aircraft. This potential for the rapid global transport of passengers and the fast distribution of goods and services make PTP transportation an attractive space technology concept worth exploiting.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9464/dot_9464_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 428.15 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:08daf9c912f37ec1e9aae44c0e1943f80baa581b3de846513cda9cdd1bef02f1c03b07cc7fa3b36c3234e6a8137c2b9ceb2845894df441f765d2aaccbd6c7e2b