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Germany asks startup to build hypersonic spaceplane by 2028

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Bremen-based startup Polaris has been commissioned to develop a two -stage, fully reusable hypersonic space plane.

Dubbed Aurora , the aircraft will be part rocket, part plane and be able to take off and land on a runway but also blast through the atmosphere and place payloads up to 1-ton in low- Earth orbit.

The aircraft will serve as a testbed for hypersonics flight and defence research.

Polaris has already built three demonstrators of its Aurora spaceplane.

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