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What's your main inter-planetary spacecraft?
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I'm not going to feature all my inter-planetary vehicles, (The Valkyrie dropships) as they're on enough posts and threads as it is.
Instead, i'm just going to show my latest ion driven hauler.
It's still in the prototype phase, but she's designed to be the most compact way to store and deploy shitloads of solar arrays and panels for power generation and having maximum external area for payload attachment without going my SDU route of a million RTGs surrounded by a croissant.
Thrust is provided by a double bank of 32 ions, powered by 16 arrays and 16 panels fitted to a completely collapsible solar tail with an integrated RTG and battery back-up set up.
She (unnamed as of yet) comes with 6 hardpoints for attaching loads to. She's designed with pushing objects in the kt range about the system in mind and from experience gained from the SDU, return trips from the Gas Giants and moons with 2-3kt should be well with capabilities.
Even empty, it's completely incapable of atmospheric flight and needs to be placed into LEO by a 3rd party L/V along with whatever mass it is transporting across the system.
Luckily I've got just such a L/V for the job.
Instead, i'm just going to show my latest ion driven hauler.
It's still in the prototype phase, but she's designed to be the most compact way to store and deploy shitloads of solar arrays and panels for power generation and having maximum external area for payload attachment without going my SDU route of a million RTGs surrounded by a croissant.
Thrust is provided by a double bank of 32 ions, powered by 16 arrays and 16 panels fitted to a completely collapsible solar tail with an integrated RTG and battery back-up set up.
She (unnamed as of yet) comes with 6 hardpoints for attaching loads to. She's designed with pushing objects in the kt range about the system in mind and from experience gained from the SDU, return trips from the Gas Giants and moons with 2-3kt should be well with capabilities.
Even empty, it's completely incapable of atmospheric flight and needs to be placed into LEO by a 3rd party L/V along with whatever mass it is transporting across the system.
Luckily I've got just such a L/V for the job.
