Japanese firm to launch commercial flights to space by 2023 NEWS
Japanese firm to launch commercial flights to space by 2023
Japanese firm to launch commercial
flights to space by 2023
A Japanese
start-up has announced it is designing an innovative unmanned spacecraft that
will be put to trial in 2019 to fly commercially to space by 2023.PD Aerospace,
based in Nagoya (central Japan), has raised 520 million yen ($4.78 million)
from five companies, including one of Japan's largest airlines, All Nippon
Airways (ANA), for the project, Efe news reported."Commercialization of
space has progressed exponentially primarily in USA," PD Aerospace CEO
Shuji Ogawa said in a statement on Friday, adding that the company seeks to
"play a part in the future of space transportation for the new era as soon
as possible".The aircraft would be equipped with an engine that would
alternate between reaction mode and a rocket to create Japan's first passenger
aircraft capable of reaching outer space up to an altitude of 100 km and
reenter the atmosphere.Last July, the company had succeeded in an experimental
propulsion system, a world first, which can alternate between a jet engine and
rocket engine function, and now it is seeking to fine tune the design.The
company plans to conduct three tests with unmanned planes by 2019 and launch
its first commercial space flight by late 2023.
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