Re:The Soviet Union’s Flawed Rival to Concorde
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @01:40PM
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> I'm pretty sure that SpaceX's BFR in earth-to-earth configuration is targeted at the wealthy market you refer to
One of the challenges Virgin Galactic ran into in its sales efforts was the high co-incidence between (a) people who can pay for a super-expensive form of transport and (b) people whose Board, limited partnership or employment agreements prohibit them from doing super-risky stuff.
On the topic of WiFi, SpaceX is able to return video from the Falcon 9 on ascent and descent in many cases. So even though the very high Doppler and tracking problems involved in wireless communication to a rocket are not trivial, they're already doing it.