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The paper mainly discusses the two actual reference vehicles. On the other hand, a vertically starting two-stage rocket space vehicle system concept is investigated to identify the conditions and constraints experienced during high-energy suborbital ultra-fast transport.

On the one hand, a space vehicle launched from an airplane is providing a lowenergy ballistic flight experience using hybrid propulsion. Besides the objectives and overall layout of the project built around two vehicle concepts, the paper addresses also the progress made during the first year of the project. The main focus is the identification and mastering of critical technologies for such vehicles rather than the vehicle development itself. In Europe, the EC co-funded project FAST20XX aims at exploring the borderline between aviation and space by investigating suborbital vehicles.

cost estimation and preliminary business case analyses.

evolution of the passenger stage for different missions allowing for increased passenger numbers on shorter flight distances.

preliminary sizing of the thermal protection and active cooling systems,.

establishment of a preliminary structural concept,.

pre-development of a passenger cabin and rescue capsule,.

system aspects of the reference vehicle’s preliminary design including its nominal trajectory,.

The paper describes the technical progress achieved for the most recent SpaceLiner 7 configuration: Iterative sizing of all major subcomponents in nominal and off-nominal flight conditions has been performed. Thanks to the multi-national collaboration, the technical lay-out of the SpaceLiner has now matured to Phase A conceptual design level.

DLR’s launcher systems analysis division is investigating since a couple of years a visionary, extremely fast passenger transportation concept based on rocket propulsion.