LANTR Rocket Engine

[ment18]

http://www.nss.org/settlement/moon/LANTR.html

I have seen several people asking for an engine between vacuum engines(terrier, poodle, rhino) and the NERV.  LoxAugmentedNuclearThermalRocket would be realistic device.

Basically have a NERV that runs on both liquid fuel(or hydrogen if that happens) and oxidizer what gets 500-600 isp and has a bad t/w.  I don't know what t/w would be balanced, maybe 5-6.  Terrier gets 12 t/w, Aerospike has 18t/w, Poodle has ~14.  It could me mainly used for high DV medium t/w reusable vehicles.

Maybe have it be an additional setting to add like 0.2 tons to NERV to convert it.

What are your thoughts?

[rocketbuilder]

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