A somewhat small single staged craft designed to cary payload too and from orbit. the craft lands upside-down to have the payload protected by the heat shield and be easily accessible when landed. The cockpit features 4 rotating seats to allow crew to always be facing upwards even when landed upside-down.
The craft has two modular nuclear reactors powering 6 magneto plasma engines and 8 magneo plasma lift jets. the 6 mag-plasma engines have a open mode and a closed mode. the open mode passes outside air through the engines for thrust, and the closed mode uses the crafts own fuel.
Activation groups:
1-Flight/landing modes: switch the guidence mode
2-Lift Jets: VTOL engines
3-Main Open Mode: magneto plasma engine air mode
4-Main Closed Mode: magneto plasma engine fuel mode
6-Docking bay: opens the docking bay doors
8-Landing Gear: activates the landing legs
9-Solar panels
0-docking RCS: maneuvering RCS for docking
Insructions for reaching orbit:
(RSS Orbit)
-activate AG2-2 and lift off.
-activate AG-3.
-fly foward untill you reach ~360 m/s and hear the alarm sound.
-once you hear the alarm deactivate AG-2 and activate AG-1 roll over to face upwards, the alarm will stop.
-continue flying low to the ground untill you reach mach 3 ~1010 m/s.
-once you reach mach 3 quickly pitch up to 90 degrees.
-fly upwards unill you slow down to 200-400 m/s.
-deactivate AG-3 and activate AG-4.
-fly upwards slowly pitching down untill you reach orbital speed.
GENERAL INFO
- Created On: Windows
- Game Version: 1.1.109.0
- Price: $151,863k
- Number of Parts: 547
- Dimensions: 6 m x 16 m x 43 m
PERFORMANCE
- Total Delta V: 93.8km/s
- Total Thrust: 34.5MN
- Engines: 30
- Wet Mass: 5.15E+5kg
- Dry Mass: 3.09E+5kg
STAGES
| Stage | Engines | Delta V | Thrust | Burn | Mass |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 | 93.8km/s | 34.5MN | 15.2m | 5.15E+5kg |
REQUIRED MODS
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Realistic Engine Overhaul
by ComplexRockets Team
Version 1.7 (6/7/2022 7:22:13 PM)
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14 Comments
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0 Samps0n5 months ago
@deepfriedfrenchtoast if you think about how the different ionized propellants with the various thrust and isp could split a sphere tank and could alternate exactly the way they vasimir augments thrust but likely would have to be one or the other, and I am not likely to be the person the hypothesize it for the first time and it actually works. For all I know the differing thrusters are one fuel specific, like a Hall thruster setup may just work for the one and having to be heavily altered to run another, or it would at least be hip to you, of me or one of these clever fellas. But it doesn’t take much pretending to still see it as should be normal considering all the other leaps that are accepted everywhere but replicas
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7,895 deepfriedfrenchtoast7 months ago
@Samps0n The mag plasma jets work like a VASIMR engine. It ionizes the gases that are running through the engine, and accelerates the ionized gases with magnetic fields. Although the design is pure si-fi other than that.
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0 Samps0n7 months ago
Is this magneto plasma jet based on a theoretical design or just a solution for more isp? Didn’t recall nuclear thermal nests from my projectrho.com crash course tho it was too extensive to recall all I learned
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7,895 deepfriedfrenchtoast8 months ago
@Luciance I based it off the Interstellar crafts. I tried to combine the Ranger with the Lander and this is what came out.
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7,895 deepfriedfrenchtoast8 months ago
@sacr3dbac0n0 I'm glad you pointed out the wings, I didn't even notice. I ended up decided that it works fine without it's wings. I'm not quite sure what you mean by the lift jets not having enough thrust. on the planet im using the jets have a TWR of 1.41 at sea level, i'm able to land okay. although I don't know what system you are using.
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4,665 sacr3dbac0n08 months ago
Cool, reminds me a lot of my InvertaSOAR vehicle I made about a month ago. Although you have a more interesting solution to inverting flight controls. One thing though, parts are very bad at generating body lift. The wings that you have clipped inside are occluded. A little more area (that isn't occluded) would greatly enhance flight efficiency and characteristics. They don't even need to be shaped like wings, You can just add small strakes along the leading edges of the vehicle and that would be enough. A good static margin for this vehicle seems to be about 1 m from CG. Another thing is that it is overweight or underpowered for 1g, it's not capable of VTOL on Earth. You can just increase the nozzle throat on the VTOL engines and that will give it enough power.
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7,895 deepfriedfrenchtoast8 months ago
@ZeusSpaceAgency I put a camera in front of the craft and simply put text in the view of the camera.
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3,143 ZeusSpaceAgency8 months ago
This is a cool build but I have one question, how do you edit the thumbnail?
That first pic down is up?