The advent of suborbital transport brings promise of point-to-point
(PTP) long distance transportation as a revolutionary mode of air
transportation. In 2008, the International Space University (ISU)
of Strasbourg, France, published a report1 documenting its
appraisal of PTP transportation technology. This report describes
the conditions that should be put in place to foster and sustain
the growth of this industry from the technical, market, financial,
infrastructure, safety, and legal perspectives. The ISU study
calculates that transatlantic flight times for suborbital vehicles
from London to New York would take less than 1 1/4 hours, less than
one-third the travel time required by the supersonic aircraft
Concorde and a fraction of that required by conventional commercial
aircraft. This potential for the rapid global transport of
passengers and the fast distribution of goods and services make PTP
transportation an attractive space technology concept worth
exploitin
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