Called the Stargazer, the vehicle can reach 11,000 kilometers per hour
At the end of March, the company Aerospace Venus he decided to put an airplane project into practice hypersonicwhere he has been working since 2020.
- The vehicle, considered hypersonic, intends to reach nine times the speed of soundcarrying passengers at a speed of 11 thousand kilometers per hour.
- As Ars Technica has revealed, the vehicle was designed to carry 12 passengers traveling at an altitude of 51.8 kilometers and tests on the rotary detonator killer have already begun.
- baptized Stargazerthe aircraft must be able to cross the world from one point to another in record time: according to the manufacturers, the vehicle will be able to go from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just an hour, a journey that currently takes about 12 hours.
For comparison purposes, the fastest aircraft ever built is the SR-71″Black bird” by Lockheed, traveling at Mach 3.2.
engine tests
As the report revealed, the company intends to have its aircraft take off and then perform a 10-minute boost with a rocket – this can send the aircraft to an altitude of about 50km, or halfway through space.
The key to doing this is to use a “rotary detonation” based engine, with the potential to increase fuel efficiency in a variety of applications, from US Navy ships to rockets.
It works like this: In the rotary detonation engine the detonation wave travels along a circular channel, which is supported by fuel and oxidizer injection and produces a shock wave that propagates at supersonic speed.
In ordinary rocket engines, for example, a highly pressurized (pressure form) propellant and an oxidizer are injected into a combustion chamber where they burn and produce a tremendously energetic exhaust column.
the technology feels real
Now, the idea seems to have materialized. Groups of researchers from developed countries (USA, Japan and others) have produced and tested these engines, going beyond the theory.
In laboratory tests, the engines provided an increase in fuel efficiency of about 10%. To reach speed, hypersonic aircraft consume about 80% fuel and oxidizer.
That way, as Venus Aerospace chief technology officer Andrew Duggleby told Ars Technica, by increasing fuel efficiency, you leave mass for important things like landing gear, wings, and even some passengers. “It allows us to really build a vehicle that is like a airplanesaid Duggleby.
Other projects
The Stargazer, however, is not the only hypersonic aircraft project in development at the moment: a company The Chinese has announced that it is working in an aircraft of the type, called Tianxing I and which promises a trip around the world in three hours.
The US Air Force is also funding a vehicle called the QuarterHorse, which can fly five times faster than sound.
If or when the Stargazer or any other hypersonic aircraft takes off, the promise of air travel around the world at breakneck speeds will be very attractive to a certain group that can afford it.
Source: Terra
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