Louis that the club would love to refurbish the old ship, and fly it on a short hop to Luna. Louis' last command when he was in the UN Space Force, and when the ship was decommissioned he managed to obtain it at scrap metal prices.Ĭlub president Chubb Delany has an insane idea. On a field trip to Luna Louis' rocket junkyard they are stunned to find the space ship Absyrtis sitting in the lot. The fans want to travel in space in the worst way, but civilians are not allowed to fly in their own ships. (ed note: in the year 2050, our heros are members of the Southwestern Rocket Society (SRS) fan club. You can see a size comparison of the Absyrtis and other spacecraft here. Although many of those transfer will take more than a decade of transit time. Enough for a one-way orbit-to-orbit Hohmann transfer to pretty much anywhere in the solar system. I figure that the delta-V is about 29 km/sec, which is pretty good actually. Except I calculate an initial acceleration of only 2.5 g instead of the listed 7.4 g. I did some cross-checking on the performance numbers and they all seem to check out. Stine chose a specific impulse of 2,680 seconds, which is better than a closed-cycle gas core nuclear rocket but less than an open-cycle gas core. The resultant high-velocity gas is further accelerated by neutron heating. His "thermal-catalyst" fuel (aka "thermo-juice") is perfectly stable under normal conditions, but when subjected to a certain neutron flux the molecule explodes. He postulated a catalyst propellant: but nuclear, not chemical. Stine created some handwavium out of his imagination.
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Stine used the Absyrtis in his novel CONTRABAND ROCKET written under the nom de plume "Lee Correy".įor purposes of the novel the Absyrtis needed a specific impulse higher than standard LOX/LH 2 (450 sec) but lower than a full blown nuclear thermal rocket engine. Harry Stine, former project engineer on the Viking and Aerobee rocket programs at White Sands Proving Ground.
Kerbal crossfeed enabler mods#
KSP-AVC - ensures that your installed mods are up to date.Yes this is a fictional spacecraft, but it was designed by G. Kerbal Joint Reinforcement - ensures that your big spaceships suffer less from unplanned rapid disassembly. Recommended mods: Interstellar Fuel Switch or Firespitter - enables multi-fuel tanks.Ĭross Feed Enabler - enables cross feed to radially attached 'Predator' tanksĬommunity Tech Tree - extends the stock technology tree with lots of new nodes for your favorite parts packs to fill.
Kerbal crossfeed enabler mod#
In addition, Cross Feed Enabler is required to enable cross feed to radially attached 'Predator' tanks.ĪLSO NOTE: I have braught the mod version inline with the KSP version. Either must be installed to enable multi-fuel tanks. NOTE: As of version v1.3.5, BAE no longer includes the Firespitter plugin, but supports both it and Interstellar Fuel Switch. This parts pack contains config snippets from the Community Tech Tree by Chris Adderley. Big spaceships are going to be sluggish, as one would expect. Hence, size4 (5m) is yellow, size5 (7.5m) is green, and size6 (10m) is blue.Įngines are kept at reasonable thrust figures and are thus not overpowered compared to the thrust/size curve of stock parts. Parts are color-coded according to the universal electronic color code, simply because the author is an old RDAF radar technician. This parts pack contains engines, tanks, and other part categories in three sizes that do not exist in stock KSP, namely 5m, 7.5m, and 10m. With Greystorks permission I am now updating this mod.