- SpaceX — and aerospace firm xArc — have signed a contract with the US forces
- A rocket could ship cargo from Florida to Afghanistan, for example, in an hour
- Such a journey by cargo plane presently takes around 15 hours to undertake
- SpaceX has landed reusable rockets before, but never with a full cargo payload
- The first experimental demos of the -principle are expected to begin next year
Ian Randdall – Mail Online Oct 9, 2020
The Falcon 9’s landed smoothly back down to Earth on two separate launchpads. Click to enlarge
A cargo-delivery rocket that can deliver weapons via space to anywhere in the globe within an hour is being developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the US military.
The system would allow materials to be transported the 7,500-odd miles from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to the US-run Bagram airfield in Afghanistan in under an hour.
In contrast, a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III — a military transport aircraft the US owns a 233-strong fleet of, that can fly at maximum of 590mph — would take 15 hours.
The rocket will be able to carry an 80 ton payload, similar to that of a single C-17 — and proof-of-principle tests are expected to begin next year.
The system would allow materials to be transported the 7,652 miles from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to the US-run Bagram airfield in Afghanistan in under an hour by rocket (yellow), as opposed to the 15 hours such a journey presently takes in a C-17 cargo plane (orange). Click to enlarge
The collaboration — which will also include Texas aerospace firm xArc — was announced by US Transportation Command’s General Stephen Lyons.
The first steps in the project will involve an assessment of the potential costs and challenges that will need to be overcome to deliver cargo globally in an hour.
‘Think about the speed associated with that,’ General Lyons said at the conference.
‘I can tell you SpaceX is moving very, very rapidly in this area. I’m really excited about the team that’s working with SpaceX.’
SpaceX has previously demonstrated the ability to vertically land and reuse the booster rockets for its Falcon 9 system onto drone ships out at sea.
However, the aerospace technology firm has never landed a rocket carrying a full payload — and the newly-proposed rocket would carry four times the cargo.
Beyond speed, one major advantage of ferry military cargo via rocket is that — at present — flying over another country via orbit does not require permission from foreign governments, unlike when transporting goods by air.
US Air Force Boeing C 17A Globemaster III flies over a minaret after taking off from Incirlik air base in Adana, Turkey. Click to enlarge
At present, each C-17 cargo aircraft cost the US military around $218 million — it is unclear at present how this, and operating costs, would compare with the rocket.
Key to the realisation of a rocket-based cargo-carrying system is the ability to ensure safe and accurate landings.
‘We send humans up into space safely, so sending cargo via orbit is not a problem. The challenge will be bringing it down,’ Douglas Barrie — an aerospace expert from the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies — told the Times.
‘How would they bring it down, by parachute or controlled descent? And could it be guaranteed to arrive in the right place?’
Mr Barrie also questioned the cost and the very concept, adding: ‘Normally you associate space-based delivery with intercontinental ballistic missiles.’
‘What would be the urgency for sending military cargo through space?’
How are they going to work? CGI? Just like all of Space X! Smoke and mirrors!
All while the American people get ever-poorer.
Makes a big satisfying target. The flaw here is that this thing must slow down to land. This is not some hypersonic weapon that is designed to maintian full speed and hit a target. I would speculate that such a vehicle would be fairly committed to its designated landing site as it slows down. 7500mph to 0mph puts this very expensive toy at risk from basic weapons. In conclusion, this is the usual military industrial complex lush. A total waste of tax payers money.
Dream on.
I wonder, will it be any quicker than Royal Mail 1st class delivering items bought on eBay, taking 16 days? And how much would it cost for delivery?
Afghanistan-to keep the heroin coming in to ease the pain of the dispossessed so they do not generate the anger needed to fight back.
Elon Musk, the ” front man ” to sell interplanetary colonisation, because humans will face the demise of Earth itself, one day, and after all we are only an insignificant blip in a vast Universe etc etc. Space X is about military R and D. Nothing more. And who believes all the hype about him? Only the gullible. One of the very important role models who has been hoisted upon the plebs, by their atheist overlords.
Just more “space” nonsense leading to the fake alien invasion.
Rothschild: I see you have a new rocket being developed.
Musk: Yeah, well you know, when you get billions of free money from the FED you can build a rocket in your spare time.
Rothschild: Another thing I wanted to tell you Musk, is that we don’t want the goy morons thinking all of us preeminent Jews are colluding together & managing the world for our own benefit..It’s good that the goyim think Spacex is a private corporation & not really a CIA-government operation.. Also, I want you & Gates to pretend that you’re antagonistic to each other. Make the goy dummies think you oppose Gate’s vaccine or whatever on these social media platforms. So how’s that Starlink system coming along?
Musk: It’s doing well. I’ll keep launching thousands of satellites into space to envelope the planet with our digital grid. Nobody will be able to escape our ultimate Matrix cybernetic control.
Rothschild: Do you think the goyim will suspect anything?
Musk: No, we’ve instructed our Marxist mass media networks to report that its all being done to provide ‘faster internet service’.
Gates: Excellent.
What Race is Musk? He looks half-oriental and claimed to be an alien (on Rogan).
Like Tesla car this rocket is just so fake.
“Thunderbirds Are Go”…..
Yet ANOTHER bullshit story. Practically EVERY article on this site is scare mongering crap. There is NOTHING about NESARA / GESARA, the Quantum Financial System which began on 2nd Augus, the Quantum Voting System (to be used first in the the US elections on 3rd November and then everywhere to prevent fraud) or the imminent Global Currency Reset.
The Tesla factory in Texas is busy making Tesla coils to be fitted to the 5G masts to enable free scalar energy for everyone. Trumps wall on the Texas border is a Tesla scaler energy emitter and it prevents the cabal from trafficking people.