Perhaps the Puffin project could be incorporated into the Spaceship 2 project in the future by allowing the six passenger Spaceship 2 craft the unique ability to give individual passengers the option of individual exploration of space or the air.
Technology
Technologically speaking, the Spaceship 2 project represents a hybrid of humans' best technologies. Since the ship itself would be carried to high altitudes by the White Knight, it does not have to incorporate any fuel weight into the flight vehicle itself. Considerations like these allow for greater scope of development of the passenger vehicle itself, as well as a roomier, more comfortable experience. The Puffin vehicle, while environmentally friendly, would be difficult to use in space without large fuel sources or solar panels. The technologies that are being developed and tested by NASA and the Ames Research Center are more forward-looking.
These future technologies include ion engines, which would run much more efficiently in space than any other previously developed engine (Ames, 2011). These types of engines have been in development for quite some time, however the efficiencies and effectiveness's that re now being achieved are second to none. Perhaps in the future, the Spaceship 2 project will be able to yield results that will help future scientists and designers to implement the technologies that are just being discovered today, but which have not yet been implemented. The Low Earth Orbit technology that is currently on the table is the most efficient, sustainable possibility currently available to carry paying passengers into space for a short period of time (Commercial Spaceflight Federation, 2009).
Another interesting new technology that could likely be coupled with the Puffin Project as well as with Spaceship 2 is NASA's Solar Electric Propulsion System. This system is currently being developed to power vehicles and satellites as they move from orbit to outer space and requires only solar energy instead of large amounts of rocket or other fuels (NASA, 2011). However, there are also opportunities for vehicles like the Puffin and Spaceship 2 to use such technologies as they develop and grow beyond the exclusively LEO environment.
While the Spaceship 2 Project is still in development stages, the most efficient way of sending humans into orbit still remains with the...
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