The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is advancing research on a hypersonic Mach 5 passenger aircraft that can cross the Pacific in merely two hours.
The agency aims to reach its technological goals within the 2020s, developing a technology that can be applied to both manned and unmanned spacecraft. Tremendous development costs have JAXA considering international cooperation in development, but its technological stockpile will prove essential in the agency taking on the leading role.
According to the conceptual plan, the aircraft would hold 100 persons….
JAPAN Forward, February 25, 2019
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