Hypersonic Vehicles

So we have been studying the idea of manned hypersonic aircraft/spacecraft since the 1950's, and if you look at the designs over 60 years the overall concept has not changed at all, so why the hell have we not built any yet?

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At this point I am almost willing to believe this as a real answer

Rocketry and satellites largely replaced any need for things like that.

We did. They were expensive and they blew up.

But a single stage space vehicle would be superior in every way

And a 2 hour flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo? Plenty of businessmen would pay top dollar for that

And don't forget the amount of people willing to pay money for a flight into low Earth orbit

>Supersonic
>Hypersonic
>Pick one

SSTO is hard as fuck to do and there hasn't been much incentive to do it, rocketry was pretty stagnant for a fair few years after the USSR fell.
>Plenty of businessmen would pay top dollar for that
Conference calls and the internet replaced the need for that.

>Conference calls and the internet replaced the need for that.
No, no they didn't.

Commercial flight would be impossible due to high costs of operation. The free market puts limits on what is profitable.

Orbital satellites make high altitude reconnaissance redundant.