8 - Hypersonics, Torpor and the Valley of Death

Published: Dec. 18, 2017, 10:36 p.m.

Listen as Caleb Williams, Space Systems Analyst for SpaceWorks, takes you on a tour of the near-term future of space and beyond. He tells us of maturing hypersonic technology and how it will eventually air launch small satellites into space, how technologies such as Torpor will put astronauts or space tourists into a form of stasis for their journey to Mars and how space industry business models will have to adapt to a technological and economic change.