Project Enterprise is an all European consortium developing a sub-orbital space vehicle. The vehicle will be a single-stage suborbital spaceplane. Called Project Enterprise, the Swiss, German, and Austrian industrial group says it is developing a two- to five-passenger vehicle powered by three liquid oxygen/kerosene rocket engines.
The flight will take one hour, rumours suggest it will launch horizontally accelerating to mach 3 to an altitude of 80km, at this point the engines will be cut off and the vehicle would coast to 130km. Passengers would experience 5min of weightlessness before the vehicle then re-entered the atmosphere and glided back to land at its take-off runway.
“Scheduling to complete the project [has] a maximum timeframe of…four years,” says Project Enterprise. Husum, Germany-based Talis Institute is one of the five companies, with the other four to be announced next month. No specific spaceport has been announced, but the group intends to have a European location. Tourists will be able to see the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Alps, the UK, central Europe and the northern Mediterranean. See Virgin Galactic’s European plans Here.
Project Enterprise will be launching a site update on January 25th 2008 so be sure to visit back then!
Visit Project Enterprise site Here
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