Moving nine times faster than the speed of sound, Stargazer will travel from Tokyo to Los Angeles in an hour.
Stargazer would take off using engines just like a conventional airplane, but then “transition to rockets once at altitude and away from [the] city,” Venus Aerospace CTO Andrew Duggleby said to me in an email. Stargazer’s first ground test isn’t expected to happen until 2025 at the earliest, and there would be “no less than five years of flight testing to ensure safety, reliability, and performance,” he added.
class ticket on a commercial aircraft, but Duggleby said a number of variables still need to be worked out to pin down that price.If and when Stargazer does get off the ground, the promise of jet-setting across the globe at ludicrous speeds will be incredibly alluring for a certain groupver since the crash of a Concorde plane in July 2000, the public has been understandably jittery about supersonic vehicles.