/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14747195
Hey retard, the complaint in the last thread was that NERVA was too heavy and lighter NTP engines are possible. The NTR I posted uses three modern 4 ton engines. If you want to deduct 4.5 tons from the 400+ ton rocket to account for even lighter engines that weren't part of the design, you can but it wouldn't change shit and you're only upset about this because you are severely autistic.

>>14744659
Let's look at a realistic design for a conjunction Mars transfer NTR with modern NTP engines like what has been suggested in this thread, oh look it sucks.
>78 ton payload with no lander and no aerobraking ability
> <7 km/s of dV, 215 day one way transit time, both worse than Starship
bro but think of the mass savings after spending 50 billion on this piece of garbage aha