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Published: 2011-02-01 21:29:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 9100; Favourites: 116; Downloads: 495
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My final Ortho view of the completed Mars Concept Mission Ship - the "Mars Venture One"Please download for the best detail and ability to see the individual modules and read the descriptions.
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This model is available for purchase in my webstore: [link]
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Outstanding! I love realistic designs like this, great work!
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Not bad at all, but I think you're being a little generous with capabilities of those radiators for what would be a 200 kW reactor.
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One thing - what radiators? Another is where are you getting 200 kW from? Wiki articles and NASA articles on VASIMIR talk about the engine output being 200kW, not the power source. In fact the Ad-Astra testing and powering of the 200 kW test was performed using a small solid-state RF power supply. In all actuality the peak power (for a brief millisecond) was 201 kW.
NASA is testing a small self-contained, maintenance free reactor about the size of a standard bathtub for actual powering of the VASIMIR in practical application.
You might be interested in this test video: [link]
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Those two panels near the engines? Those aren't radiators?
I misspoke about the reactor, I was referencing how much they can put out, but NASA has made it pretty clear that for a Mars mission you'd need at least 1 nuclear reactor to provide adequate power for the trip (I have a friend whose pretty sure it can be done with a couple Russian minireactors similar to the newer ones being developed today, but don't quote me on that.)
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No those are solar panels - they are designated as such in the ortho
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In case you didn't know, the engine sucks power to generate plasma and shoot it out fast. It's "output" is more or less the same as the input power needed to run it. And yeah, the power input needed for a millisecond is not comparable to the power input needed for a full second, as watts is Joules (energy) per second. That solid state thing was producing 1/1000th of what the drive needed to run continuously.
If you look at what they wanted to do for the ISS (a VASIMR thruster), they had to use batteries as the station was unable to produce enough juice to run it continuously.
Given that nuclear stuff generates between 2 and 4 times more heat than useful electricity, are still looking at somewhere more than 2 Mw thermal (heat) to dump somewhere.
Nasa is usually oblivious about this detail.
Cool design though.
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Beautiful. Realistic engineering and an international mission to boot.
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Thank you very much!
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Thats a brilliantly well thought out mission craft for mars and the outer planets. I'm intriqued by the drive engines you've used is the VASMIR a relation to a NERVA drive?
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Thank you! Well I chose the VASIMIR due to the fact it is a more modern alternative to the NERVA, which was practically abandoned in 1972 with the de-funding of NASA by Nixon. The NERVA is a more 'conventional' approach and still needs the ability to carry large quantities of fuel in the form of LH2 (Liquid Hydrogen) while the VASIMIR operates with far less amounts of fuel in the form of Argon. The VASIMIR is currently under research and a working prototype is expecting to be attached to the ISS in by 2013 to assist in orbital changes.
Charles Bolden, current NASA Administrator, stated that the VASIMIR could feasibly cut down travel time for a Mars mission from months to mere days. It is also of note that the VASIMIR uses almost no moving parts other than gas valves, so the reliability and lack of maintenance time, would be better than most other currently known drive systems.
While the NERVA expels hot gases heated in a reactor, the VASIMIR utilizes only magnetically charged plasma 'powered' by a separate nuclear reactor in my model.
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Thankyou for the clarification, you've nicely given me a summer project - to collect all available data on this propulsive method and perhaps scratch build a scale model (another hobby of mine). It will be interesting to compare data with other nuclear based interplanetary (or deepspace drives as they are sometimes known) drive systems.
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Excellent! Glad to help bro - I hope to see that here?
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Thank you very much!
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That's really cool! Such details on both these renders I faved!
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Aww well thank you so much for saying that lol, I could only wish for that though
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fantastic work ! as always . can you imagine never being able to go outside !? i don't think space travel or Mars would be much fun . i'll wait for them to find Earth2 before i leave this place
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LOL no there would be spacewalks I imagine as necessary for extravehicular repairs etc... mainly though I would assume they would stay in the comfort of the ship
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could you do that , live in a small place ?
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LOL I did for many years in the Navy, I worked and lived aboard US Navy Nuclear submarines for 8½ years of sea duty
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O_O i've scuba'd before but you'll never see me in a bucket under the water .. not for 8.5 years !! >_> actually this explains a lot about you
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sweet! looks like a good distrib
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Man that must have taken days! 
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Thank you Matt, I have been toying around with the thought of a ship like this for a long time. So yeah you could say a lot of thought went into it lol - and a lot of scribbles on Starbucks napkins LOL!
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Thanks mate, glad you think so
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You are welcome man..yep i do
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