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Turns out, if the ballistic cargo delivery system were to be compared to the SpaceX ITS, it is more efficient! Surprising! Why SpaceX would like to send people to Mars while we still have problems surviving re-entry in Mars atmosphere in small rovers.

Here is my reply to the the question. (I'm just 12 years late) Nuclear. Go nuclear. Go antimatter if you wish. Go die if you think US has enough space for solar panels.

Well if you say so, space transport will probably have no future whatsoever.

Well, the US sure had launched mail via cruise missiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mail Does that count as rocket mail?

No, like Earth to earth, not Earth to Mars and wasting like 1 million tons of fuel.

How about oxygen?

How about like delivering humanitarian cargos to disaster-striken area.

Recently, I designed (in my head) a Hypervelocity Passenger Vehicle (just a cool name for really high speed transports). I immediately ran into engine design problems ( I like designing everything stand-alone), since regular jet engines can't get to Mach 8.8 without burning up into flames, and...

No, I mean like 700+ passengers moving across the planet at REALLY high speeds. Would that make the cost lower? Would that make it more popular and more economically viable? Never mind about global warming issues caused by that system.

Also, would it be possible for your cargo to drift down on a parachute onto a delivery centre in your town? It would be nice. (Very romantic for a wedding too, you know.)

I mean like using a ballistic, reusable rocket to get a really heavy cargo into a ballistic trajectory before reentering the atmosphere and slowing it down by a parachute. Furthermore, could we carry people like that too? Like a ballistic humans carrier.

Are firing ballistic rockets to the other side of the planet carrying plenty of cargo economical? If so, would it even be plausible. Please contribute.

That is not true either. The Mark 5 nuclear device (which is stronger than our current nuclear devices in terms of tamper strength) often spills out its deadly minerals if crashed. MIRVs are worst. They are designed to sustain atmospheric heating, but not the heat of a nuclear explosion 5 ft...

Kinetic Energy based warheads eg. THAAD have to intercept the missile before it reaches to the top of the ballistic trajectory. For high-flying missiles, only nuclear-tipped ABMs could go that high because it is much lighter than a flying tungsten rod.

That is the wrong part. LGM-30, otherwise known as Minuteman is a staged ICBM, which is manually controlled, or through a computer program. Fun fact: LGM-30 contributes to most of the ICBMs in US. Another part: ABMs use nuclear warheads. Since no ABMs where ever used, we never know any...