Sure does. Like whether the vehicle is going to be endoatmospheric or exoatmospheric, for example.
The trip times mentioned are about the same as SpaceX has in mind for its notional P2P Starship service. That would seem to argue in favor of this new venture also seeking to pursue a ballistic suborbital approach – though something like North American Rockwell’s erstwhile Star-raker notion might also fit these parameters if it relied more heavily on rockets than airbreathing engines. But no explicit confirmation of either is to be found.
Which is too bad because such a plan – especially the purely ballistic approach – makes a lot more sense and would be a lot easier to both finance and engineer than any of the airbreathing supersonic/hypersonic vehicle plans that have proliferated recently.
The first existence proof of this proposition is already advancing by the day in Boca Chica. But there is certainly room for a second-mover at this point.
Whatta drag….
They aren’t the only folks woking working on a big project to advance space travel. https://www.arahanga.space/
I want to know how they can access our Internet from their universe. In our universe the country they live in is called New Zealand. Come to think of it, Philip K. Dick wrote a book about this, “The Maori in the High Pa.”
Don’t forget Pohl Anderson’s Maurai Federation was based in Aotearoa too.
Poul Anderson’s Maurai Federation. You seem to have confused his first name with Frederik Pohl’s last name.
I’d say their chances of being first to Mars are zero to at least ten decimal places. That said, as an old movie title accurately put it, Mars Needs Women. So they are certain to be welcome on the Red Planet whenever they manage to show up.
IIRC the Maurai Federation weren’t very nice people who were actively suppressing technological innovation. I’d have shot the Maurai spy in “Orion Shall Rise” and saved a lot of people a whole lot of trouble.
It seems a bit thin on the details.
Sure does. Like whether the vehicle is going to be endoatmospheric or exoatmospheric, for example.
The trip times mentioned are about the same as SpaceX has in mind for its notional P2P Starship service. That would seem to argue in favor of this new venture also seeking to pursue a ballistic suborbital approach – though something like North American Rockwell’s erstwhile Star-raker notion might also fit these parameters if it relied more heavily on rockets than airbreathing engines. But no explicit confirmation of either is to be found.
Which is too bad because such a plan – especially the purely ballistic approach – makes a lot more sense and would be a lot easier to both finance and engineer than any of the airbreathing supersonic/hypersonic vehicle plans that have proliferated recently.
The first existence proof of this proposition is already advancing by the day in Boca Chica. But there is certainly room for a second-mover at this point.
Whatta drag….
They aren’t the only folks
wokingworking on a big project to advance space travel.https://www.arahanga.space/
I want to know how they can access our Internet from their universe. In our universe the country they live in is called New Zealand. Come to think of it, Philip K. Dick wrote a book about this, “The Maori in the High Pa.”
Don’t forget Pohl Anderson’s Maurai Federation was based in Aotearoa too.
Poul Anderson’s Maurai Federation. You seem to have confused his first name with Frederik Pohl’s last name.
I’d say their chances of being first to Mars are zero to at least ten decimal places. That said, as an old movie title accurately put it, Mars Needs Women. So they are certain to be welcome on the Red Planet whenever they manage to show up.
IIRC the Maurai Federation weren’t very nice people who were actively suppressing technological innovation. I’d have shot the Maurai spy in “Orion Shall Rise” and saved a lot of people a whole lot of trouble.