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| Juncoph:
--- Quote from: Operator¹ on April 25, 2015, 02:54:44 PM ---you emphasize cost-cutting in space transit and abandon rocket propulsion once you've started using nuclear power --- End quote --- 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. |
| Operator¹:
the nuclear reactor is sending power to the engines.. |
| Juncoph:
--- Quote from: Operator¹ on April 25, 2015, 03:19:32 PM ---the nuclear reactor is sending power to the engines.. --- End quote --- what the forget? how is it propelling the ship? what does the reactor supply? |
| Operator¹:
--- Quote from: Juncoph on April 25, 2015, 03:21:04 PM ---what the forget? how is it propelling the ship? what does the reactor supply? --- End quote --- hydrogen and electricity conventional fuel is handy too |
| Juncoph:
--- Quote from: Operator¹ on April 25, 2015, 03:22:26 PM ---hydrogen and electricity conventional fuel is handy too --- End quote --- 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. |
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