• zhunk@beehaw.orgOP
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    If their proposed timeline works out, they would stop flying Unity mid 2024, start Delta test flights in mid 2025, then start Delta commercial flights in 2026. They have a lot of cash, so they should make it until then?

    I really don’t get how this is a public company or how there’s supposed to be a big enough market for half million dollar suborbital tourism tickets.

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      8 months ago

      The titan sub had enough customers with a spot worth a quarter million. Half a million is not a big jump from there. I guess there are enough billionaires out there to keep filling their coffers in such dangerous pursuits.

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      Stupidly wealthy people are sinking millions of dollars into building out-of-the-way places to hide in the event the torches and pitchforks come out. A fraction of that to go suborbital may as well be a long weekend.