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Playing around a bit with IMS now that my machine is running again, designs both feature Hlynkacg's transhab. Mars vehicle loosely inspired by one of Ernst Stuhlinger's designs Fusion rocket "threading the needle" between Saturn and the innermost rings on a polar transfer orbit.

Hi All, sorry to be a flake-i-form person. As you might have guessed, I can't grok the new schedule owing prior travel commitments which will keep me out of the loop all next week. December missions are still looking fine.

As another low-thrust pilot, I will tell you have a few options: IEATMFD has a feature which will "cheat" and lock your attitude as well as some other features that are nice for low thrust vessels, but this can get a little unstable/buggy with some vessels. AbsoulteKillrot I find to be a...

That schedule should be fine for me, though I may have an intractable travel commitment for the 16th and 17th. I should know by the 10th.

Everything still looking fine here. Will advise.

Since you're using IMFD, The "SOI" flag in IMFD's map program will show the gravitational sphere of influence for bodies, which is the changeover points for the hud/autopilots.

Indeed, I didn't want to leave you guys short a crew member and I should have a dip in personal responsibilities anyway once it's time for the B-Crew (B+ Crew?) to get underway. This stated I'm going to be pretty intermittant for the rest of the month. I'll keep pace with developments in this...

These are implemented as storage capacity, not generation capacity. Though in real life there is also regeneration capacity for water and air these have to be separate modules in IMS. ---------- Post added at 08:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:57 AM ---------- In any case, I've been...

All of the above. You'll notice also that there are no installed low-temperature radiators, antenna masts, additional cooling and the like since the idea is just to have a simple and extensible framework. As a happy accident, the cargo bay fits the vehicles in "world of 2001" very well, and in...

Yes, that is a hassle. Also I've been working on a modest cargo rocket similar to your specification. If you guys would like I can post it so people can practice/optimize low-thrust trajectories. I'm afraid it doesn't have the propellant loading for a fast transfer though.

Well, noble gas propellants are typically the shortlist for hall thrusters, but since it's a more viable propellant for a VASIMR than for a Hall thruster there is a reason hydrogen is typically proposed for a VASIMR mission and that's so you can refill at the destination. All of these moons have...

Looking at your post above it looks like you're suggesting putting the thing on a hohmann transfer, which I would imagine would be done in "high thrust low ISP" mode? For that mission profile Hall thrusters might be more effective than VASMIRs, not the least because the tankage volume and dry...

Not to be too political but the "Classical European Explorers" naming theme is pretty played out. Since that seems to be the consensus on the piloted vessel though maybe for one of the cargo ships we could go for someone who wasn't a westerner, like Zheng He? Also as far as european explorers...

One thing to note with a low-thrust transfer is that the crew will require the hab to be paired in a centrifuge since, unlike the mars DRM crew ship you have posted, this vehicle must spend most of the trip aligned with the velocity vector and cannot tumble to generate artificial gravity.

Those panels are going to be pretty ineffective out of LEO. The hab I posted earlier in this thread can attest to that ;) As for deep six: with Hlynkacg's kind permission I've started an IMS config file for his transhab, which should appropriate for our purposes. Once I get a free afternoon...