{"id":16749,"date":"2015-08-29T16:21:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T23:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/maks-germanys-hypersonic-spaceliner-concept-solidifies-8282015-flight-global"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:38","slug":"maks-germanys-hypersonic-spaceliner-concept-solidifies-8282015-flight-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/maks-germanys-hypersonic-spaceliner-concept-solidifies-8282015-flight-global","title":{"rendered":"MAKS: Germany\u2019s hypersonic SpaceLiner concept solidifies \u2014 8\/28\/2015 \u2014 Flight Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/maks-germanys-hypersonic-spaceliner-concept-solidifies-8282015-flight-global.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ten years after the project was conceived, the German Aerospace Centre\u2019s SpaceLiner could soon enter a new design phase with a \u201cmission definition review\u201d planned for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to produce a two-stage, reusable hypersonic space vehicle that could transport 50 passengers from Europe to Australia in 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Leonid Bussler of the German Aerospace Centre\u2019s Space Launch Systems Analysis (SART) group says the project is currently in \u201cPhase Zero,\u201d where the range of vehicle concepts are narrowed down to a single, baseline configuration through wind tunnel testing and performance trade-offs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/news\/articles\/maks-germanys-hypersonic-spaceliner-concept-solidifies-416185\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years after the project was conceived, the German Aerospace Centre\u2019s SpaceLiner could soon enter a new design phase with a \u201cmission definition review\u201d planned for 2016. The idea is to produce a two-stage, reusable hypersonic space vehicle that could transport 50 passengers from Europe to Australia in 90 minutes. Leonid Bussler of the German [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69656,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions\/69656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}