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

https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1036312814657384450?s=20

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

I would love the simplicity of controls from Google Sketchup, building process from Inventor, testing environment from Solidworks/CATIA, and then have it be usable in some sort of game environment

same with fluid dynamic, control systems etc.