Solar Express would consist of a series of aligned cylinders roughly 50 metres (164 feet) in length.
We all love to travel by air, rather by a train as it saves a lot of time, being much faster. Alas, the future space travelers would prefer a train, a ‘space train,’ over spacecrafts as it would land them in Mars is just two days!
Charles Bombardier, a Montreal-based innovator, and his team envision Solar Express that travels at roughly 1 percent of the light’s speed, so it can shuttle passengers and payloads between planets faster than any existing systems.
“In space, acceleration and deceleration phases consume the maximum amount of time in travel, and once a space train reached its cruising speed, its energy consumption would be minimal. The rest of the energy would make the Solar Express to accelerate and it would never stop; instead, space wagons/capsules would rendezvous with it,” he says.
Solar Express would consist of a series of aligned cylinders roughly 50 metres (164 feet) in length. Six of these cylinders – which you can think of as train cars – would link together in a straight line and hurtle through space.
Solar Express would use rocket boosters, keeping a small amount of fuel on reserve to adjust course for its launch. Then, the train would slingshot around celestial bodies to gain speed without needing more fuel.
Once in motion, the train would never stop. Instead, smaller crafts would join up with the train when it orbits a planet to gather supplies and offload passengers. It will be cheaper as it would go forever, though the up-front construction cost would be quite high.
Gen next tight your seat belt as your trip from Earth to the Moon would take merely 2.13 minutes, while a trip to Mars would take about 37 hours and if you wanna go to Neptune; the furthest planet from Earth, you would land up there us just 18 days, while, it Voyager 2 took about 12 years to reach Neptune, and it takes roughly 260 days to get Mars using current technology!