Sippel said: We want to come up with a development road map.
We need a mission definition and this year we will do that in Phase A.
To make it more viable, DLR has also outlined a 100-seat version capable of 1-hr.
intercontinental and transpacific missions.
It is expected tickets would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But even if the share will only be 0.2% why should we do it?
From a space perspective thats a potentially huge impact.
The passenger orbiter would board on the rocket engine and would be launched vertically.
Thats a huge production run, and that was the motivation.
Besides, other space ventures such as Virgin Galactic too would affect the project of DLR.
source: www.techworm.net
