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Thanks for the pointers to the Electron, guys! I can't seem to find much details about their batteries, but it does sound impressive. I've thought of Tesla, obviously, but one of the things that makes me very hesitant is... Lithium on the Moon. Exists, but getting tons of it together is a steep...

Ok, had some things messed up. The density was a typo, I tend to mix up digits in numbers. It was still wrong though because of some unit conversion kerfuffle. Unfortunately I kerfuffled multiple units and they evened each other out, so after having the (I really think) correct numbers of...

What units do these need to be in? From what I got together now, the volume flow rate would be 58.1 litres/s, and the chamber pressure would be 710 kPa. Ok, from what I gather, I'd have to multiply m^3/s * Pa, so that would be equivalent to litres/s * kPa. Which leaves me with 41 kW, before...

Uhm, no... Haven't even thought about temparature yet. But 16000 Kelvin seems somewhat excessive for a chemical thruster, as it seems a bit excessive for... well, pretty much anything apart from maybe a fusion drive 🤪

Huh, the PDF times out for some reason, but I know it. One of the few things one can find on throttlable aluminium thrusters. That would be very miraculous. I thought the best we can hope for out of Al-LOX is somewhere around 2600 to 2700 m/s, which is what I'm currently designing with. Ah, the...

I see though that these are massively more powerful motors than what I have in mind (even the SSME outthrusts my little contraption here almost 10fold, much less something like a first stage main engine like the RD-180). The 290 kN I mentioned above should really be about all that I need. Enough...

Right... The propellant has to overcome that too. Completely forgot about that... 🤦

I'm thinking about that, the question is how much power would the pump require. The problem with a hybrid is, it's not very feasible to power it by burning some of your propellant, and it might not be feasible to feed it from batteries. Also, pressure is a lot more failsafe than an electrical...

So here's a question that's hopelessly above my math paygrade but that would be cool to know more exactly than multiplying my thumb with Pi... Let's assume a fictional spacecraft, built on the moon. I'm saying this because it's a hybrid Aluminium/LOX rocket, and those wouldn't make much sense...

Going on Zozer's previous works, I'd expect it to be playable without any supplements, but that it will recommend some stuff. Older works of his, like Orbital 2100 (which is one of the very few mid-future systems that I know that manages to keep halfways realistic while also being playable)...

I'm just glad I am none of the guys that have to update their time libraries for the umpteenth time because bureaucrats keep shuffling things around...

I would assume so, but I've never checked...

Simple things are hard, apparently. I never expected to struggle with the meaning of something as simple as "in 30 days", but being tasked with implementing automation for customer data removal and notification thereof, I feel like I need a lawyer... 🤦‍♂️

70 million? Wow, somebody really wants to know...

My head canon is still that Mr. Clete did not fully die when crashing down a gorge in the mountains outside Ankh-Morpork, but that his spirit found a way to our reality (it's happened before...) and founded GEMA... 🤷‍♂️

Actually not so much. Without player cooperation, it's almost impossible to keep them from going off-track and introducing stuff into your game that you really didn't want in there. In case of orbiter that would be fine, as player cooperation can be assumed as given when somebody installs an...

The maybe most significant update of my game, at least for orbinauts: Orbital margins, now with actual orbital mechanics! Take on the new challenge as you don't just manage your money and your DV, but also your time! https://randomactsofconstruction.itch.io/orbital-margins Latest devlog to go...

With how the current administration is set up? When Musk looses interest, I guess... It's probably not long now until he figures out a way to make Nasa pay for it. It was kind of fun to watch while they were being suborbital, but now that they're going orbital and every breakup produces hundreds...

I would rather expect the R.L.S. Legacy...

So they've found a way to brag about how much money they're spending on the project. Good for them, I guess?