Germany to build hypersonic space plane

[niemandhier]

https://thenextweb.com/news/germany-commissions-polaris-hypersonic-spaceplane

[niemandhier]

Last year Polaris successfully demonstrated their linear aerospike engine, now the German army tasks then with the development of a new space plane.

[belter → niemandhier]

A German Hypersonic Space Plane able to carry French Nuclear Weapons is an interesting proposition....

[mytailorisrich → belter]

The French have submarine-launched ICBMs. They don't need this.

[niemandhier → belter]

I think it’s for low orbit disposable surveillance satellites.