[1.12.x] Kerbal Atomics: fancy nuclear engines! (January 22, 2022)
KSP 1.12.x
Kerbal Atomics [1.3.3] Last Updated January 22, 2022
This part pack is designed to provide some new nuclear thermal rockets for your spaceship-building pleasure. There are eight new engines, one in the 3.75m size class, four in the 2.5m size class, two in the 1.25m size class and one in the 0.625m size class. They are fuelled with LiquidHydrogen, and in some cases can use Oxidizer to boost their thrust at the cost of specific impulse. Liquid Hydro
The goal my project is to allow an existing space program to transition from using LF nukes to using Hydrogen NTRs. The benefit is that existing craft will still function, while allowing the launch of new NTR based craft which means both may be used together. A simpler approach would be to simply duplicate each part.
I decided to make the engine a dual mode engine meaning that it could be switched between fuel types like the rapier, this can be switched in flight preventing existing craft
