Imagine being able to reach any destination on Earth in under an hour.
It still seems like a dream, but the dream is that of Elon Musk, and he’s got a plan to make it happen with the same system that will propel humanity to Mars by 2024.
SpaceX is focusing its energies on a scaled down rocket system dubbed Interplanetary Transport System or the BFR.
As Kottke reported:
“We can build a system that cannibalizes our own products, makes our own products redundant, then all the resources we use for Falcon Heavy and Dragon can be applied to one system,” he said at the conference. Musk says the cost of launching cargo on the ITS will be fairly cheap, too, since the rocket and spaceship will be a fully reusable system — unlike the Falcon 9, which is only 70 to 80 percent reusable.
Here’s a look at the Earthly application.
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