Project Silisko Industries

[MaverickSawyer]

Naw, Nuclear thermal air breathing engine. Like the Dragonfly in Robert L. Forward's "Flight of the Dragonfly" series. Electrical power is provided by an RTG-style setup around the core, and the atmosphere is pulled through intakes, heates, and expelled as a jet exhaust. Additional working fluid is stored for long range hops beyond the atmosphere, or for orbital insertion in this instance. Hover was achieved by electric ducted fans in the wings, which wouldn't work here. Chemical thrusters may be needed.

 

[NovaSilisko]

I decided that ducted fans would be the most effective method of in-atmosphere propulsion for Titan. That's only for scouting for where the habitat modules landed, and initial climbing before orbital insertion. After the fans stop being effective, the rocket engine is fired. Titan's high atmospheric density and low gravity should make this hopefully the most efficient method to leave.


The tail of the ship is a placeholder, I just didn't want to model engines yet

For individual crew transport, though, I'm going to make a Titan Personnel Aircraft (basically a tiny blimp inflated with pressurized atmospheric nitrogen)

 

[Felipi1205]

It's becoming AMAZING!

 

[NovaSilisko]

Going to make some probes to piggyback on the Neil Armstrong. So far my ideas are a Saturn Ring Impact Probe and Kuiper Belt Exploration Probe.

The former would be detached after aerobrake, and would be sent into a trajectory bringing it over saturn's rings for most of the orbit, then direct into it to get some extreme close-in data before impact. The latter would be released before aerobraking, and would use Saturn's gravity to accelerate it at extremely high speeds out of the solar system, to investigate any KBOs in its path.

 

[fsci123]

Considering that titan is low gravity and high atmospheric density world have you thought about landing the Entire craft there?

By the way everything is looking beautiful.

 

[NovaSilisko]

Considering that titan is low gravity and high atmospheric density world have you thought about landing the Entire craft there?

By the way everything is looking beautiful.

It's far, far too large for that. Designing a massive shuttle capable of landing would be extremely heavy, not to mention difficult to get back.

---------- Post added 02-07-12 at 01:51 AM ---------- Previous post was 02-06-12 at 08:00 PM ----------

sRIP is taking shape. The instruments so far:

Main camera: records true color, 5 fps video as the probe approaches the ring, broadcasted live to the mothership. Has a very thick glass cover to protect against dust.

Dust detector: Points prograde, and registers the impacts of dust particles up until probe destruction.

Primary/backup antenna: self-explanatory.

Attitude thrusters: self-explanatory.


Anyone have any other ideas for instruments?

 

[NovaSilisko]

Put the RPM in game. Tomorrow, I'm hopefully going to animate the petals and set up the service module jettison.

Edit: Auto-merge, why you not work?

 

[NovaSilisko]

Aaaand I remodeled the spaceplane:

 

[NovaSilisko]

Submitted the first release containing the MPOD-V and Sparrow station to OrbitHangar. Should be available soon.

 

[Cepheus]

Gotta say, this is far more epic than I could have ever expected. Keep up the excellent work.

 

[Felipi1205]

C'mon OrbitHangar, I wanna download it!

 

[NovaSilisko]

C'mon OrbitHangar, I wanna download it!

It's taking its sweet time =p

---------- Post added 02-13-12 at 02:29 PM ---------- Previous post was 02-12-12 at 08:43 PM ----------

Okay, something must be wrong... I must have submitted it wrong or something.

 

[Felipi1205]

Yes... Almost three days! Contact the administrators first...

 

[orb]

Yes... Almost three days! Contact the administrators first...

Not all administrators... There's only one administrator of OHM -- Vash.

 

[Felipi1205]

I know. But do you know what happened?

 

[orb]

I know. But do you know what happened?

I don't know. Vash was on O-F last time yesterday. :shrug:

 

[NovaSilisko]

Something else was approved in the time between submitting it and now, so...

 

[orb]

Something else was approved in the time between submitting it and now, so...

Note, that not all add-ons need to be approved. Just of the members, who didn't upload them earlier.

 

[NovaSilisko]

Note, that not all add-ons need to be approved. Just of the members, who didn't upload them earlier.

Ah, right. Vash must have other things to do, so i'll just be patient.

 

[NovaSilisko]

Okay, since this is taking an unsettlingly long time, here's a Dropbox link:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/575558/Silisko Industries - Release 1 - Socrates and Sparrow.zip

Hopefully Vash will return soon!