Eliasdbr

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19th Jul 2017

Colombo Mark 1 is a light, cheap and reusable spacecraft. It is oriented for exploring and travel pruporses, it has a little useful cargo and the very basic for space navigation. It can be landed but it isn't a SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit).

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TheNik 22nd Jul 2017

This gives us an exhaust velocity of about 2500 m/s and the Tsiolkovski Rocket Equation tells us that the available delta-v is exhaustVelocity*ln(massAfter/massBefore), or around 385 m/s. Obvoiusly we've made a whole lot of assumptions, but the order of magnitude should be okay.
TheNik 22nd Jul 2017

MEGATNTC4, let's do some quick over-the-napkin maths... The (presumable) service module is about 1/5 the height of the spacecraft, i.e. 0.7 m. And the radius seems to be around the same. So the volume is Pi*r^2*h, or around 1 m3. Assuming half of that is fuel tanks filled with a fuel of a density of water, we have 500 kg of fuel, while the whole thing has a mass of 3500 kg. Now let's assume an engine specific impulse of 250s, which is reasonable for UDMH fuel.
billnye 22nd Jul 2017

The physics on this save are going haywire!! Fill the screen with phot, then wait. The metl will melt, then turn to stone! The water dissapears when heated!
Tux1 22nd Jul 2017

Hold on while I get KSP running...
LiquidPlasma 22nd Jul 2017

Cool. +1. I'm joking but I don't think ice and nice would be very good protective choices :>
MEGATNTC4 22nd Jul 2017

This thing might only have 120 m/s of delta v...
Maxwell2421 22nd Jul 2017

Hmmm..... Needs more struts. +1 But it will never get to Minmus without at least seven more stages.
SK325 21st Jul 2017

Reminiscent of Spacex's Dragon 2. Love it.
CAC-Boomerang 21st Jul 2017

I love it! It looks very realistic, and it is a pleasure to look at.
BlueSnow 21st Jul 2017

my favorite thing is that he/she only used deco for enhanced shading

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