Request Discovery II

[Graham2001]

Found while browsing the internet a document discussing how to realize Stanley Kubricks vision in 2001:ASO using more or less current technology (Apart from the fusion drive).

Realizing "2001: A Space Odyssey": Piloted Spherical Torus Nuclear Fusion Propulsion

I'm surprised that this one has not been attempted before.

 

[Urwumpe]

I'm surprised that this one has not been attempted before.

Could be because the Glenn electronic library is still a bit of unchartered waters for most Orbiteers, I just started looking over it. :thumbup:


Looks just too cool, especially with the assembly sequence... should be possible to create a nice add-on with a large HLV. 251 mt is outside our launch vehicle add-on range.

 

[Graham2001]

Could be because the Glenn electronic library is still a bit of unchartered waters for most Orbiteers, I just started looking over it. :thumbup:


Looks just too cool, especially with the assembly sequence... should be possible to create a nice add-on with a large HLV. 251 mt is outside our launch vehicle add-on range.

Not even the [ame=http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3672]Jupiter Vx[/ame]?

 

[Star Voyager]

If you read the book, Arthur Clarke says that when the XD-1 was launched with Bowman and Poole, the XD-2 was under construction. The XD-1 would do an ejection burn to leave the solar system after the studies of Satrun, but by then, XD-2 would "re-acquire" Bowman and Poole and return to Earth.

 

[tgep]

Ya know, that looks a lot like the Bullet add on ( checking hangar for link )

[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3034"]Bullet MK1[/ame]

 

[Andy44]

I think I've seen this vessel on the Atomic Rocket Homepage before, but not the whole document.

 

[Urwumpe]

Not even the Jupiter Vx?

OK, this should do the 251 mt... I wasn't aware it was already released.

So...practically, needed would be the meshes of the modules, and an idea how to make the EOR assembly, since the document only describes roughly the launch manifest.

 

[Graham2001]

OK, this should do the 251 mt... I wasn't aware it was already released.

So...practically, needed would be the meshes of the modules, and an idea how to make the EOR assembly, since the document only describes roughly the launch manifest.

I'll hit the NTRS and see what of the documents mentioned in the references I can find there.

 

[Urwumpe]

I'll hit the NTRS and see what of the documents mentioned in the references I can find there.

Most references should be about the assumptions done in the design. I doubt you will find more gap fillers there, the Discovery II is just a Phase 0 study.

 

[Mister Kite]

I did some work for a mesh for that one.
Abandoned it though, because of the lack of a "Brachistochrone" trajectory calculator of some sort in Orbiter.
It has a constant but very low thrust, which will bring you to Jupiter in about 118 days, but not with TransX or IMFD.
( Not me at least. )

 

[Graham2001]

Most references should be about the assumptions done in the design. I doubt you will find more gap fillers there, the Discovery II is just a Phase 0 study.

It still might be worth trying to hunt them down, you never know what might be turned up.

Such as the 1998 paper that proceeded the one linked:

A Spherical Torus Nuclear Fusion Reactor Space Propulsion Vehicle Concept for Fast Interplanetary Travel

And a 1995 paper mentioned as a reference in the construction part of the document linked in the OP which mentions HLLVs:

Nuclear Thermal Rocket/vehicle design options for future NASA missions to the Moon and Mars

 

[Urwumpe]

Nuclear Thermal Rocket/vehicle design options for future NASA missions to the Moon and Mars

By Stanley K. Borowski...a name that is known in the Orbiter world.

 

[Urwumpe]

Graham2001: Did you already find a paper that describes how the Deuterium/Helium-3 is fed into the fusion reactor? Or how a pebble bed reactor looks like in space (since there is no gravity to transport the fuel elements)

 

[Graham2001]

Graham2001: Did you already find a paper that describes how the Deuterium/Helium-3 is fed into the fusion reactor? Or how a pebble bed reactor looks like in space (since there is no gravity to transport the fuel elements)

Not yet, still looking. I have to be careful though, since the NTRS crashed a few months back some documents go to broken links.

 

[Graham2001]

Still searching for documents on the fuel feed. Got sidetracked with Mars' 85 material.