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>>10619970
>>pressure vessel
As are most rockets. I would call it more of a hot water heater that's designed to explode in a certain direction.
>>never going to be used
IGAF, I don't have money in it. Do you? It will be fun to watch though. Now as far as other steam rockets go there's the World Is Not Enough lander. It uses water because that shit's easy to come by. Just throw whatever you land on in the tank and boil it to steam. It could be the same type of exploding water heater, but I am not certain. And just so your nuke boner is happy, yes, it could be nuclear powered
https://www.honeybeerobotics.com/wine-the-world-is-not-enough/
>>technically they are not
they throw mass out to create thrust. That's the definition of a rocket
>>much less than 1
NERVA has TWR <1