A hypersonic "SpaceLiner" would whisk up to 50 passengers from Europe to Australia in 90 minutes. The futuristic vehicle would do so by riding a rocket into Earth's upper atmosphere, reaching 24 ...

The SpaceLiner would take approximately eight minutes to climb to an altitude of some 50 miles where it reach the earth's upper atmosphere before gliding back to Earth at hypersonic speeds of more ...

The German Spaceliner project would mean a journey between Europe and the U.S. would be reduced to just over 60 minutes - at a price.

Their double decker motorhome quickly attracts attention. Hornor and Welsh, however, refer to the Odyssey as “the bus,” being fulltime RVers. It’s a converted Neoplan Spaceliner built in 1985 by ...

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The latest concept, dubbed SpaceLiner 7, was singled out in 2012 and a model was on display at Russia’s MAKS air show in Moscow this week.

DLR's SpaceLiner concept is similar in some respects to the idea of reusable launch vehicles for multiple missions. With these, completely different missions are served by one and the same vehicle.

The team has proposed the SpaceLiner, a jet that could travel at a speed of Mach 25 by harnessing the power of a booster that rockets the passenger portion of the hypersonic jet into the mesosphere.

SpaceLiner passengers would have eight minutes to experience the rocket launch before they reached an altitude of about 47 to 50 miles (75 to 80 kilometers). That falls short of the 62-mile (100 ...