Message from @Uksio
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Exactly what I was sayin'..
Except I enjoy the rocketry of it..
And setting up refueling rings..
And getting to the Mars-analog.
The benefit of this wedgy boi nozzle was that it had much easier time being cooled
PV = nRT
Classic
Also because of venturi effect it could be thrust-vectored without any moving parts
Musk said aerospike wasn't effective in the end
yup, that was another added benefit
It had issues, yes
It is more fuel-hungry compared to normal engine
```“So you have your combustion efficiency and what percentage of max theoretical combustion you are and then what your nozzle efficiency is, which is really are you straightening the flow, shooting the molecules out in a straight line, so you go into the other direction.
“With a traditional combustion chamber, you can get to very high combustion efficiency, cause the molecules are bouncing around have got time to combine and do their thing.
“Then when you sort of choke it through the throat, it gives them more opportunity to combine.”```
aerospike could get a craft to orbit but not cost effectively
apparently
aerospike has low combustion efficiency
well, it's a trade-off; efficency at what pressure?
@Coolitic it could have been solved with pre-combustion chambers, but the project was axed before they could try that
you can optimize seperate nozzles for different stages of ascent but a single nozzle will always be less efficient over the entire range
Unless it is a flexy nozzle like they make them on the planes
maybe aerospike will be more useful for very light payloads?
yeah, that's what skylon is working on
A nozzle that can do the anal reflex
yknow
it's funny
KSP helped get me very interested in aeronautics and various different kinds of technology and physics
but skylon won't need to worry about the heat load from the initial stage; it will acheive high altitude using a conventional nozzle
>> inb4 KSP did more to the aerospace education than all govt education programs combined
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Soz, not in before.
It already happened. >.<;
i wish someone would build a modular software framework that allowed the modules to be used for both engineering irl and in games
sort of like a sim/stim
only modular
Yeah
A gamified Autodesk Inventor would be rad
that way you could develop and test things in games like kerbal and then build those same things irl . could embed finite element analysis and such right in the game