Fluorine Propulsion Systems

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

A quickly thrown together mod for an unrelated RP that adds some fluorine engines. Decided to release it publicly for you all to enjoy.
Space Storable Engine - Runs on methaflox

Rocketdyne Triprop - A legendary engine with the highest isp of any chemical engine fired.

Rocketdyne Triprop (Atlas ver.) - The same triprop, but with higher thrust, lower efficiency and meant for use on Atlas-Centaur.

Rocketdyne NOMAD - An engine running on LF2/Hydrazine

Fluorine Agena - A simple engine running on LF2/LH2. Part of the Agena family of engines.
The Fluorine Agena doesn't have a gas generator or gas generator exhaust because I was too lazy and incompetent to finish it.

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Download FPS here!
Mod help thread here!​

 

[Orion]

Based and Floxpilled

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

Based and Floxpilled

Fr

 

[MonkeSpaceflight]

w flox

 

[Axiom]

Does the rocketdyne triprop have a red plume?

 

[Marmilo]

Rocketdyne Triprop - A legendary engine with the highest isp of any chemical engine fired.

Super underpowered

Rocketdyne Triprop (Atlas ver.) - The same triprop, but with higher thrust, lower efficiency and meant for use on Atlas-Centaur.

Super overpowered

They look nice tho

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

Does the rocketdyne triprop have a red plume?

yes but me forgor to change plume color to darker red rip

 

[Norman5]

can you add mac support? besides that i really think its fun to explore these exotic rocket propellants like LF2, Pentaborane,ClF3 etc

 

[Darthan]

I've spotted a couple of (minor?) bugs with this pack (the RL10 pack seems to have the same issue). If you rotate the engine 90 deg on revert to build or load from blueprint it restores as vertical:

design screen

launchpad

revert to build

I first spotted this when experimenting with a horizontal-launch shuttle that had a craft using a RL10 engine as a payload. The flourine engines seem to have the same issue.

The other bug relates to the torque/engine motion when rotating. When used with the SAS mod and set to prograde these engines seem to 'wiggle' much more than other engines. If you timewarp 25x the engine can actually break off sometimes! This might be partially an issue with the SAS mod but other engines don't have this problem.

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

I've spotted a couple of (minor?) bugs with this pack (the RL10 pack seems to have the same issue). If you rotate the engine 90 deg on revert to build or load from blueprint it restores as vertical:

design screen
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launchpad
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revert to build
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I first spotted this when experimenting with a horizontal-launch shuttle that had a craft using a RL10 engine as a payload. The flourine engines seem to have the same issue.

The other bug relates to the torque/engine motion when rotating. When used with the SAS mod and set to prograde these engines seem to 'wiggle' much more than other engines. If you timewarp 25x the engine can actually break off sometimes! This might be partially an issue with the SAS mod but other engines don't have this problem.

The rotation bug has been in the pack ever since I made RL10-RO/FPS. I don't know how to fix it.
And yes there is a history of the triprop engine breaking (it breaks on me). It's probably due to too much gimbaling.

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

can you add mac support? besides that i really think its fun to explore these exotic rocket propellants like LF2, Pentaborane,ClF3 etc

I am on Windows and thus cannot properly test future Mac builds. Sorry.

 

[Norman5]

I am on Windows and thus cannot properly test future Mac builds. Sorry.

i guess.

 

[Recoleto]

It looks really good!

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

It looks really good!

Thanks!

 

[TheMacTester]

nice job, awsome mod, but not mac accessible. still you cooked

 

[Retro_guy]

The rotation bug has been in the pack ever since I made RL10-RO/FPS. I don't know how to fix it.
And yes there is a history of the triprop engine breaking (it breaks on me). It's probably due to too much gimbaling.

Hiii, is there a chance that nowdays the bug could be fixed?

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

Hiii, is there a chance that nowdays the bug could be fixed?

If there is a fix, I do not know what it is or how to implement it.

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

"Chat new RL10 is dropping"

 

[Retro_guy]

on fluorine?! This is going to be interesting!

 

[TheMacTester]

"Chat new RL10 is dropping"
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i like the green in the back of the plume

 

[Vinny]

I jjst realised the acronym for Fluorine Propulsion Systems is FPS

 

[CosmosAkula]

I jjst realised the acronym for Fluorine Propulsion Systems is FPS

FPS could mean two things now lol

 

[CosmosAkula]

"Chat new RL10 is dropping"
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wait a sec. fluorine fueled rocket engines emit an opaque blue green plume?

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

wait a sec. fluorine fueled rocket engines emit an opaque blue green plume?

It's not exactly realistic as of now since the bluish-greenish-whitish plume is hard to recreate since there are no pictures of such plume in action.

 

[CosmosAkula]

It's not exactly realistic as of now since the bluish-greenish-whitish plume is hard to recreate since there are no pictures of such plume in action.

ah ok, makes sense