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Published: 2014-12-01 10:33:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 3766; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 88
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A DY-100 at launch measured just over 200m in height, almost twice as tall as a Saturn V moon rocket. Aerodynamic forces during atmospheric flight were controlled using an airflow forcefield generated in the nose and rear section ( vsfx.deviantart.com/art/DY-100…).Full video of the launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKtieX…
As seen as a desktop model in Rain Robinson's office (1996): voy.trekcore.com/gallery/album…
Image from the ST: Chronology book: en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:…
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Note: The height of the vehicles can vary depending on the version and stages used. The length of the DY-100 itself, as assumed here is 110 m. There is no canon figure.
DY-100 model by Prologic9, conversion by David Metlesits.
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3-5 SRBs bolted together with un-aerodynamic battleshippage, and being able to generate an airflow forcefield without having technology that would make aerodynamic losses negligible, which they already mostly are? I never knew the creators of Star Trek were that clueless when it came to actual aerospace design...
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I beg to differ as the problem is solved not with ‘force field’ generators but merely launching without the detachable external cargo modules. Those could be launched in a stacked configuration atop a heavy lift vehicle gaining a controllable center of gravity profile both with the cargo modules and with the primary vehicle. While some have created imaginative ideas to launch the ‘as viewed’ configuration of this vessel to do so is not reasonable as just with the proposed Orion / Altair lunar lander system the CSM and LEM units are launched separately using existing vehicles better suited to each task.
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Yes, the only reasonable answer is that the components were lofted by a spaceplane, or Big Dumb Booster, and assembled on orbit.
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That's why I like our Skylon spaceplane, because it takes off on a standard runway and then goes single stage into orbit! Just like that, we could build space stations and space ships in sections on Earth, put them into orbit and put them together like Lego bricks and there we have space hotels and ships to go to the moon and Mars.
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I disagree with both of you.
The on-screen evidence shows that the launch vehicle for the complete DY-100 is as depicted here. I have given the problem of aerodynamics an in-universe answer.
Also there is nothing about the DY-100 that looks like it's a modular construction.
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I've actually tried this MANY times in Kerbal Space Program. Let me tell you, the launch setup for the DY-100 is unstable as hell.
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I can imagine. This is my answer: vsfx.deviantart.com/art/DY-100…
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