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Published: 2018-08-13 02:14:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 931; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 10
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Just a generic small-class lander, of the sort that might be flown under CLPS. Mostly just a test scene while I work on lunar surface environments some more.Related content
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it reminds me a little of a more modern version of the old Artemis Common Lander!
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I dunno, no actual engineering involved. Its scaled to like 2.5ish meters wide, so around the same as Peregrine. Maybe like a ton?
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Ah, OK. So Atlas-LANTRtaur* territory.
*A launch vehicle used from approximately 1979 to 1989 in my Into the Wild Black Yonder alternate history, consisting of an Atlas 1st and 1½ stage and a Centaur 2nd stage using 2 RL-10 engines augmented with nuclear preheating to obtain a specific impulse of 595 seconds and a payload to Escape of 3,410 kg.
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Do you have full spec sheet?
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Well, it depends on what you mean by full, but here: Atlas-LANTRtaur Specs
Yes, I misspoke about it's capacity to Escape—that was actually for the Titan IIIA-LANTRtaur—but the mission could still be launched using the vehicle. Also, comparing the Escape payload to earlier calculations may indicate that payload capacity has a "two-humped" pattern, with it decreasing after the optimal booster burn time in the document, but starting to increase again after around 125 seconds. Sample size is too small to confirm.
Really, it was created because they wanted to get rid of all expendable LVs as fast as goddamn possible after the Nova OLRB came around (essentially a Shuttle but a fully-reusable SSTO with all of its flaws fixed).
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