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Over the years, I've kinda shifted the design to using simpler hydrolox engines and a lifting body, making it much more akin to NASA's Venture Star. The thing is, fusion engines are heavy, and if you have the materials' science to make them light enough to work as the powerplant for this craft, then you'd most certainly have the materials science to make a scramjet or hydrolox-chemical SSTO shuttle work well.
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Interesting and exhausting. Are you space engineer?
I just liked the craft, looking as a good example how second generation of space shuttles should look, and wanted to know if it was intended as ground to orbit, or interpalnetar (to Mars, Moon) transport.
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Only on Kerbal Space Program - but with Realism Overhaul, at least
Also done some hobbyest sorta high-powered rocketry on a university team. Put this nice 9-foot tall (or so) 40-lb vehicle up to about 10,000 feet AGL (Above Ground Level). Fun times. I didn't work with them this semester because I wanted to focus more time on a relativity course, but that fell through, so maybe I'll join'em again next semester.
Unless your tech is ridiculously advanced (which admittedly high-power fusion kinda is), making a single vehicle go from surface->orbit->interplanetary transfer->orbit->surface is insane.
So it was intended as a surface/orbit shuttle, only. Though honestly fusion plants this high-power would probably make it capable of that insane mission I just described, lol.
The idea was a shuttle to dock to, and travel docked to an interstellar vehicle to another Earth-like world. So once the interstellar "mothership" enters orbit, the shuttle can provide transportation from it to the planetary surface of an Earth-like world.
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The idea looks viable, but the "mothership" would have to be extremely big and likely built in space
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It's another design I poke at here and there every so often. I was basically imagining it'd be something like this:
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I heard that Hayao Myazaki started out drawing planes and stuff. This could be the start of something awesome!
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Great scotts, you don't know who Myazaki is?? He's one of the greatest Japanese animators the world has to know. He's done movies like Kiki's Delivery Service, Spirited Away, and so much more! I suggest that you look up his movies if these don't ring a bell.
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