Nonnel's Nation RP: Earth 2077 - [AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL!]

[Juncoph]

you emphasize cost-cutting in space transit and abandon rocket propulsion once you've started using nuclear power

the only form of nuclear propulsion i know of is project orion

and that would A: produce fallout when used atmospherically and B: be more expensive. nuclear propulsion only (theoretically) allowed a rocket to carry more deltaV.

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[Operator¹]

the nuclear reactor is sending power to the engines..

[Juncoph]

the nuclear reactor is sending power to the engines..

what the forget? how is it propelling the ship? what does the reactor supply?

[Operator¹]

what the forget? how is it propelling the ship? what does the reactor supply?

hydrogen and electricity

conventional fuel is handy too

[Juncoph]

hydrogen and electricity

conventional fuel is handy too

so it's still a chemical engine, heated by the reactor....

dude that's still pretty much as costly as a conventional rocket, just less efficient atmospherically and more efficient in space

stick to the practical stuff, dude. focus on SSTOs and reusable boosters. none of this sci-fi stuff when we haven't even reached 2015.

[Operator¹]

so it's still a chemical engine, heated by the reactor....

dude that's still pretty much as costly as a conventional rocket, just less efficient atmospherically and more efficient in space

stick to the practical stuff, dude. focus on SSTOs and reusable boosters. none of this sci-fi stuff when we haven't even reached 2015.

should I service that giant steam catapult now

[Gojira]

Ukraine begins building a moon balloon

[Operator¹]

sweden is having a clearance sale on military equipment and slightly older space equipment

[Gojira]

ukraine would like to make of buy

[Operator¹]

ukraine would like to make of buy

sweden will offer three shuttle-types with reusable rocket boosters and build the maintenance + launch facilities for 750 million euros. the package includes 20-year maintenance support and additional replacement boosters, along with incremental upgrades to the flight and propulsion systems

[Gojira]

i'll take it

[Operator¹]

delivery and construction commences immediately wherever ukraine wants the launch facility to be

[Kansas]

1. israel - Provoked Nuclear War
2. netherlands - Flooded
3. serbia - Fixed the country and gave it to Russia
4. vaticanland - Don't call it this and it's my current nation

I never forgeted up The Holy City, and I abandoned Serbia, I turned it into first world your welcome tbh

[CypherX]

itt: complain about space stuff because your nation is stagnant

[Gojira]

One in Sevastopol, one in Kiev, and in Dnipropetrovsk.