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davester65 · 07-16-2015, 06:03 PM

Yeah, I suppose I need to remember to take stuff in Wikipedia with a healthy dose of salt. I actually designed something like the Skylon using GURPS Spaceships and with a delta/v of .75 per tank I got a delta/v of over 15 mps with 13 slots of fuel. Which is high considering the article says the Skylon won't get higher than the ISS. If I reduce the delta/v to .30 I get a more realistic 6.24 mps. Still twice as good as regular rockets, but less than NTR's or HEDM. Still, we can always hope.

07-16-2015, 06:03 PM	#3
davester65 Join Date: May 2009	Re: Skylon Aerospace Plane & Sabre Rocket Engine Yeah, I suppose I need to remember to take stuff in Wikipedia with a healthy dose of salt. I actually designed something like the Skylon using GURPS Spaceships and with a delta/v of .75 per tank I got a delta/v of over 15 mps with 13 slots of fuel. Which is high considering the article says the Skylon won't get higher than the ISS. If I reduce the delta/v to .30 I get a more realistic 6.24 mps. Still twice as good as regular rockets, but less than NTR's or HEDM. Still, we can always hope.