/sci/ - Science & Math

if you think Uranus is blue, you should see a doctor.

>>15705077
depends how long you are willing to wait.

>>15365075
you can make better NTRs

>>15347485
>>15347487
>muh roddit muh go back
kek, look at these assholes

>>14968417
something like this would suffice

>>14598820

Pic very related.

>>14570804
Nuclear is inevitable

>>12731045
Keked

>>12559219
>chemical SSTOs from Earth will always suck
FTFY

>>12397824
The solution is simple: make Venture Star into a nuclear SSTO

>>12058149
>It makes no sense with something like Starship
Starship only makes sense because we've been using chemical rockets for so long. If we'd been using nuclear from the beginning we would have high-payload ssto's like pic related.

>it's hydromeme
Methane and other fuels can be swapped in for nuclear rockets as needed

>>12058149
>>12058153
fuck hippies

>>12026686
Too small.

Gas-core atomic rockets when?

>>11711787
>NTR is dumb for launch in any world.

>>11558043
Cancel Orion.

Build Liberty Ships.

>>11429388
>is there a way to select one's fuel such that there's no need to detach parts of spacecrafts as they try to escape orbit?
If I'm reading your question correctly, then yes but with lots of caveats. I don't think there are any chemical bipropellants that can do that, there might be a tripropellant combination but it would probably be so toxic and unwieldy that there would be problems supporting a rocket like that.

Outside of chemical propellants, there are possible options (pic related), but are either fissile based (and thus scares everyone) or fusion based (and thus impossible right now).

Let's build a nuclear rocket

>>11297149
NUCLEAR
LIGHT
BULB

>>11256127
>the fuel isn't going to be flaming if it's inert

>>11171024
Starship isn't ambitious enough.

>launches
>property values within a hundred miles of the launchpad plummet

>>10992848
>By necessity they'll have to build better engines than we would have to for equivalent tasks, push the gs just a bit higher and you'd see space programs only taking off once high TWR nuclear rockets have been developed.
So something like this?