/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12359520
That's what the robot catgirls are for. Did you think Musk was joking?

>refueling demonstration in 2 years, moonship in 2-3
>mars next transit window after that

>>12227239
Anything called a "strategic reserve" will get indefinite military funding.

Your daily reminder that the math checks out on nuclear fission torch SRBs. They would work in principle. 200 MT thrust from a Shuttle SRB.

>The General Dynamics proposal brought forth the ultimate development of the original Atlas concept. A one-and-a-half-stage pressure stabilized stainless steel “balloon” tank 15 feet in diameter, 50% larger in diameter than the Atlas, would be powered by five Rocketdyne RS-27 engines, the same ones used on the Delta booster. The “half-stage” would drop off, during ascent, jettisoning four of the RS-27’s, leaving the remaining RS-27 as a sustainer.
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4034/1

I did not know Super Atlas existed but now I need it in my life

>>12206056