I need a SSTO 101 class

[Val]

After seeing this thread, I started tinkering around with ssto's.

i have found that the ideal twr for air-breathing/nuke craft to be around 1.5/.54 to make orbit.

I have found these craft to be ideal as you can easily get to LKO with 2.5k ms remaining.

Any one have any twr stats that you find ideal? I'd like to hear what others think.

When do you measure TWR for airbreathing engines? At what speed and altitude? I'm never really sure. I prefer using launch-mass per engine, as I find that less unambiguous.

I usually make my designs with target of 25 t / RAPIER, but I've gone as high as 34 t, and as low as 10 t.

For TWR in orbit I don't really set any specific targets. I do try to keep it above 0.25, but 0.5 is less tedious on interplanetary burns.

There's a bunch of RAPIER-Nuke discussion and designs in the SSTO to laythe and beyond thread.

[Delta-Cheese]

Is it alright to come back to this thread after a couple of days with a new design? Is that against the rules?

[Val]

Is it alright to come back to this thread after a couple of days with a new design? Is that against the rules?

It's your thread, so you have a large say in what's allowed. The mods have the final say though

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What I mean is, you set the topic of the thread to SSTO 101 class. So I see no reason why we can't discuss more than one design in your class.