Commercial
0HRS
A Starship-class trajectory analyzer.
MAE 2.0 minutes, validated against six published routes.
The world is this big around. Commercial flies it in 48 hours. Starship compresses that ≈30×.
γ 13.5° · crosses Kármán · 30 min free-fall · near-orbital re-entry.
Semi-empirical ballistic model fitted to SpaceX published E2E timings. Maximum error across six routes is 2.8 min.
R = 6371.009 km, WGS-84 mean).
Azimuth: forward bearing along geodesic.
Inclination: from spherical trigonometry,cos i = cos(lat) · sin(az).
Rotational Δv contribution:v_earth · sin(az) at launch latitude.
Q = 2sin(θ/2) / (1 + sin(θ/2)) with SpaceX E2E flight-flattening correction factor f(d) fitted from published timings. Propellant mass fraction computed from Tsiolkovsky with Isp = 360s avg (Raptor vac/SL blend).
| Route | SpaceX | Model | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA → NYC | 25.0 | 22.6 | −2.4 |
| NYC → PAR | 30.0 | 27.2 | −2.8 |
| SYD → SIN | 31.0 | 28.3 | −2.7 |
| LA → LON | 32.0 | 33.6 | +1.6 |
| LON → HK | 34.0 | 35.3 | +1.3 |
| NYC → SHA | 39.0 | 40.3 | +1.3 |
| MAE | 2.0 min |