American company develops supersonic aircraft 11,104 km/h

Venus Aerospace, a Texas-based company, aims to develop vehicles that can travel nine times the speed of sound with its groundbreaking aircraft model called Stargazer.

The design of the Stargazer supersonic aircraft. Photo: Venus Aerospace

The Stargazer passenger plane is being built to reach speeds of 11,104 km/h, allowing it to complete the journey from New York to Sydney in 90 minutes, Tech Times reported on May 27. Even Concorde, the pioneer of supersonic aviation, only reached Mach 2 (2,414 km/h).

For comparison, no aircraft has surpassed Mach 6.7 (8,273 km/h) since the American X-15 test aircraft achieved this in 1967, according to NASA. The most recent record-breaking aircraft was the famous Lockheed SR-71, also known as the Blackbird, with a top speed of Mach 3.2 (3,951 km/h). However, these achievements are overshadowed by the incredible pace of rocket development, which regularly breaks the Mach 9 barrier to reach low Earth orbit at speeds of around 23,358 km/h.

The Stargazer is Venus Aerospace's ambitious rocket-powered project that could revolutionize commercial air travel . While it uses rocket propulsion, the vehicle will take off and land like a conventional plane using jet engines.

Andrew Duggleby, co-founder and CTO of Venus Aerospace, emphasized the impracticality of using rocket engines at airports due to the high noise levels. Instead, once the aircraft reaches a predetermined altitude and flies away from densely populated areas, it can rely on its rotary explosive rocket engine (RDRE) to continue its journey.

An Khang (According to Tech Times )

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