08-12-2011, 01:51 PM | #11 | |
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Re: TL9 Spaceships
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I could see Japan, China, India or Russia all deciding to use nuclear pulse, altho Japan probably wouldn't use it in atmo...they (the Japanese) would most likely use laser-launch to boost anything to orbit, and then light off the drives.
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08-12-2011, 02:14 PM | #12 |
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Re: TL9 Spaceships
I don't see any of them risking international ire for whatever marginal benefits that space offers any time soon.
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08-12-2011, 02:40 PM | #13 |
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Re: TL9 Spaceships
I don't see why use of any TL9 drives' designs from Starships in interplanetary space should provoke international ire(well, except Orion, of course).
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08-12-2011, 02:55 PM | #14 |
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Re: TL9 Spaceships
You have to get them into interplanetary space in the first place, and that's where people are going to freak out. Fusion drives with no radioactive components might be acceptable, but the international community isn't going to be happy with anybody that tries to boost radioactive or antimatter fuels from Earth to space.
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08-12-2011, 03:57 PM | #15 | |
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Re: TL9 Spaceships
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Of course, there may be a major difference of quantity if you're boosting an Orion system.
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08-12-2011, 04:00 PM | #16 |
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08-12-2011, 04:02 PM | #17 |
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Re: TL9 Spaceships
There have been sizable protests about them. NASA's latest Jupiter mission, Juno, does not use them. Reasons for this include improved solar panels, spacecraft electronics that use a lot less power (flash drives vs. tape recorders), the problem that nobody's making Pu-238 any more ... and the protests.
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08-12-2011, 05:08 PM | #18 | |
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Re: TL9 Spaceships
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Russia and China already pretty much ignore "international ire", such as it is, and Japan and India will do whatever benefits Japan and India, and play patty-cake with the neo-luddite morons later, just as they do now.
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08-12-2011, 05:09 PM | #19 | |
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Re: TL9 Spaceships
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Plasma sails, OTOH, require consumables, and I would wager that the concept proposals likely err on the side of optimistic specific impulses. TeV |
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08-12-2011, 05:24 PM | #20 |
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Re: TL9 Spaceships
BTW, how does a fission reactor work in space in the first place? Do you have to rotate it for gravity, or does it use something other than convection to operate?
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