KerikBalm Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 So aside from the revealed tech, what would you like to see in the game that would be realistic. So I'd say: Air augmented rockets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-augmented_rocket Nuclear thermal turbojets, ramjets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto A sort of super-nuclear rapier type engine: "Nuclear thermal turborocket with air augmentation": https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/07/nuclear-thermal-turbo-rocket-with.html A good old LANTR engine: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php#ntrsolidcore Additional thoughts? Is the "Nuclear thermal turborocket with air augmentation" a bit too much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisSpace Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Antimatter and Black Hole engines as an extremely late-game thing could be added. Also, basically everything shown in here: https://imgur.com/a/9q74GFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Is a VASIMR in? If it isn't it ought to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldForest Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 (edited) 59 minutes ago, KerikBalm said: So aside from the revealed tech, what would you like to see in the game that would be realistic. So I'd say: Air augmented rockets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-augmented_rocket Nuclear thermal turbojets, ramjets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto A sort of super-nuclear rapier type engine: "Nuclear thermal turborocket with air augmentation": https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/07/nuclear-thermal-turbo-rocket-with.html A good old LANTR engine: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php#ntrsolidcore Additional thoughts? Is the "Nuclear thermal turborocket with air augmentation" a bit too much? Yes, give the kerbals more nukes, that's always a good idea! XD 54 minutes ago, ChrisSpace said: Antimatter and Black Hole engines as an extremely late-game thing could be added. Also, basically everything shown in here: https://imgur.com/a/9q74GFS They've said no magic tech or no tech we can't realistically get to soon. Both those are severely decades possibly century or two away. 47 minutes ago, Brikoleur said: Is a VASIMR in? If it isn't it ought to be. We believe it is. I would like to see more variation in SRBs, and maybe different fuel type of SRBS such as aluminum oxide and graphene oxide foamhttps://phys.org/news/2019-04-hybrid-energy-method-fuel-future.html Graphene foam can delivery a lot of power at a net-gain weight to thrust ratio. Super power SRBs for first stages like an Ares I derivative Edited August 29, 2019 by GoldForest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OOM Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 (edited) On 8/29/2019 at 11:02 AM, KerikBalm said: A good old LANTR engine: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php#ntrsolidcore Additional thoughts? Is the "Nuclear thermal turborocket with air augmentation" a bit too much? NERVA \ LANTR - Useless engine. Anything worse than this engine. Well or this useless trash Need more core temperature! and deltas of at least 40,000 m / s. Spoiler ps And why do you take all the information from this site? There is so much water ... Edited August 30, 2019 by OOM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 On 8/29/2019 at 10:02 AM, KerikBalm said: Additional thoughts? Is the "Nuclear thermal turborocket with air augmentation" a bit too much? It's redundant. A turborocket is already air-augmented, adding additional ductwork wouldn't really help. I'd love to see some high-end MPD engines. For high Isp applications, nuclear-electric MPDs are a good concept that retains reasonable thrust while still being fairly efficient. They also work great as RCS thrusters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KerikBalm Posted August 30, 2019 Author Share Posted August 30, 2019 I think the air augmentation they refer to is that the lH2 combusts with atmospheric O2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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