A passenger aeroplane having a rocket spacecraft fitted on top of its fuselage. The rocket spacecraft may use renewable cryogenic liquified hydrogen and oxygen fuels. The passenger aeroplane may be jet engine powered, using fossil fuels to lift the combined aeroplane and rocket space craft, collectively referred to as airspace plane from the ground. At an elevated altitude, the jet engine is shut off and the rocket engine starts to launch the airspace plane into orbit. When the airspace plane re-enters the atmosphere, jet engines start operating and the airspace plane lands at the destination airport. The rocket itself and the carrier aeroplane are propelled into orbit from airborne atmospheric flight, and landed together, as one entity. The airspace plane may be reusable and without parts being jettisoned or separated during the atmospheric and orbital flight. The passenger aircraft and cryogenic rocket’s outer surfaces may be provided with heat shields.
Renewable fuel hybrid atmospheric and orbital passenger airspace plane
2021-12-01
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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