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They are due to unveil the hydrogen propulsion system next week. I wonder who would be customers for this. Liquid hydrogen is much more expensive as a fuel than regular aviation fuel. Not needing runways will give it some use cases. Though how are they going to refuel with liquid hydrogen at places that don’t have runways?
I imagine it would also be pretty inconvenient. Even space agencies don’t like working with it, since it has to be way colder than even liquid nitrogen, and will boil off if you fuel up too early.
If you can buy this thing you can afford your own hydrogen fuel tanks.
Any spaceport that launches hydrogen-fueled rockets is equipped to store and handle liquid hydrogen, and not every spaceport has a runway. But overall, there are far fewer spaceports than there are runways, so I’m not sure how this is an advantage in general…
That drawing easily shows why it will fail, and it’s not the cost of the fuel. Look at the amount of passengers compared to the size of it. Airlines will not go for that disparity in efficiency at all. Everything they do is to maximize revenue and minimize fuel costs, the largest expenditure by far, to stay afloat or turn a profit.
It’s supposed to be a business jet.
Reminds me of the Chieftain in Elite Dangerous :)
Air breathing rocket, basically…
