The financiers believed Elon Musk, who promises to reduce the flight time from London to New York to 29 minutes.
The largest Swiss financial holding UBS Group AG has assessed the prospects for so-called near space flights - for example, from London to New York and back. I decided that this is not fiction. And he predicted that by 2030 the market for such services will amount to $ 19.7 billion a year, according to the Daily Mail.
Elon Musk proposes to navigate Earth through space, referring to his SpaceX Starship transport system and the ability to make a soft landing using rocket engines.
Initially, Musk's spaceships were intended for flights to other planets. But the billionaire thought, why not fly them and at much shorter distances, but with access to outer space? In any case, it will be faster than on airplanes at the traditional height of 10-11 thousand meters above the surface.
Probably, from Moscow to Sochi for about 10 minutes * you can jump *.
Long-distance flights will be replaced by such jumps. The longest, which take almost a day, or even more if there are no direct flights, will take less than an hour.
Now from London to New York at least 7 hours by plane. And on a rocket - 29 minutes. From Moscow to Phuket - about 8 hours by plane, by rocket it will be a little over half an hour. Sumptuously. You can fly on weekends.
According to Musk, the ticket price will remain the same. At least it won't increase.
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UBS analysts predict the development of the space tourism market, estimating it at $ 3 billion a year by 2030. That is, they consider fast rocket flights to be more promising in terms of profit.
At least to Mars, at least to Phuket.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY