There are endless science fiction stories about a future where man manages to venture into the depths of deep space with amazing technology...it might take a while for this to become reality, for now we must be satisfied with short trips for super rich! Current travel offers include parabolic flights that allow you a few moments of zero gravity by making use of particular flight paths, flights on military jets up to Mach 3 that allow you to fly up to 25,000 m, then there are suborbital flights that reach 110 km of altitude and finally there is the orbital flight that lets you dock at the ISS station but only after training and if the mission doctors agree. But in the future we will have a new and, above all, sustainable way to get closer to the stars.... Raphaël Domjan, 44, born in Neuchâtel in Switzerland, first achieved success with the solar vessel MS Tûranor PlanetSolar, making the first round of the world powered entirely by solar energy and now faces a new challenge, it's time to conquer the stratosphere. Although real space only begins at about 100 km in height, the objective of the Mission SolarStratos project is “[...] to demonstrate that current technology offers us the possibility of reaching beyond what fossil fuels can offer. Electric and solar vehicles are among the main challenges of the 21st century", this was how Raphaël Domjan, pilot and project creator, described the project to fly in the atmosphere between 15 and 60 km above the ground.
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