/sci/ - Science & Math

This thread is too depressing so posting good engines. Starting with an AJ10.

>>12269404
>If I remember right multiple rockets have been lost to copy-pasting code from an older rocket
Sloppy copy paste is the natural result of not giving your software team enough time and manpower early on and then pushing them to meet unrealistic deadlines.

>>12269417
>Remember how we joked about SJWs and not they are infiltrating everything
They were infiltrating everything starting in the 1950s because they are the successors of Soviet spies and McCarthy did nothing wrong. Trump rallying his base around space expansion is enough to make half the country ignore any criticisms of space expansion on raw tribal reflex, which is exactly what we need right now. Mocking them, and the SJWs, is a necessary first step in combating them.

The more I read about "near future" nuclear rockets, the less sense they make. A single fucking AJ10 has more thrust than most NTR designs, and you can fit a LOT of hypergolic tankage in the same mass budget as a fucking nuclear reactor That higher thrust in turn means you get more Oberth kick on departure, shrinking your delta V budget. "Muh higher Isp" doesn't even matter if you're still using Hohmann trajectories. We could have been colonizing Mars using fucking Skylab colony boats and Apollo landers in 1980, and doing hypergolic ISRU on the gas giant systems by the 90s.

Nuclear rockets only make sense if they're fusion torches.