>Orbital satellites make high altitude reconnaissance redundant.
This is where you are wrong, some satellites need to be moved on short notice, and burning fuel to adjust orbit is never desired since you only have X amount of fuel on a satellite and those things are expensive as fuck, the NRO would cut off their balls to get their hands on a hypersonic spyplane which would be infinitely cheaper than launching satellites
Is that why there are so many supersonic passenger/business jets flying about these days? If there was any market for them they would exist, but they don't.
You're retarded.
Nobody needs one badly enough to pay for it.
Any question that starts with 'Why don't they...?" has two possible answers:
1) It is not actually possible (yet.)
or
2) It$ co$t make$ it uneconomical.
How so? The claim was made that businessmen would pay for high speed transport, and the demonstrable fact that there is no flying supersonic passenger aircraft kinda makes that idea a bit silly. Concorde has been the only one to exist and that had to be propped up by two governments and no one made a successor to it. Even small business jets are subsonic.
Wrong.
Are you just going to keep saying that without saying why? I'll do the work for you then.
Technically I was incorrect since there was a second supersonic passenger jet, the Tu-144. Which stopped being used because it was too expensive.
Anything else?
>Which stopped being used because it was too expensive.
Actually it was because the Soviet people were piss poor and not enough of the Politburo would fly on that thing, not to mention it had mechanical issues they didn't have time to resolve before thy retired it for good
>the Soviet people were piss poor
So it was too expensive for them?
Yeah because they were fucking communist slaves, with refinement and fixing the small issues it had, the Tu-144 would have been more economical in the west than the Concorde