Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 2:25 pmCongreveopia wrote:Shyluz wrote:
*cracks knuckles*
Time to get my orbital physics on!
Alright, so, approximately 100 kilometers above the atmosphere is Shyluz's civil space station, known as Khrabrost. It's your generic space station for civilians. At approximately 95 kilometers orbital is Shyluz's military station, which is still mostly classified. It is commonly known as Khrabost Square. It is equipped with several point defense guns of the thirty mm caliber, and is primarily intended for ground support. It is given several types of ordinance pods, the ROMULUS pods are equipped with a ROMULUS class automated sentry, and can be dropped from orbit using disposable ion thrusters (these are real, they have the thrust equivalent of the weight of a single sheet of paper,) it then falls into atmo. Once at one kilometer up, it deploys drouge chutes, and cuts them at 500 meters. It also detaches the heat shield at the 500 meter mark. It then lands using integrated solid rocket boosters. The second kind is a REMUS pod, which deploys much in the same way, but with a REMUS class automated sentry instead of a ROMULUS. The third type is given weaponry instead of a sentry, and is used as a mobile resupply point. The fourth and final pod type is the highly classified TITANICA pod. Which amounts to a standard rod-from-God system, but the heat shield is filled with small explosives, it essentially acts as a armor penetrating area of denial weapon.
Science-y enough, Cong?
Also, just call me Shy.
A lot better than most orbital weapons systems I've seen here. I have a few minor nitpicks, but all in all it seems fine (except for one thing).
- Ion engines take a long time to generate meaningful Delta-V. Timeliness is a priority, so you should use a liquid fuel engine. Your soldiers do not want their support to arrive in a few months.
- I can see the motivation to deploy the drogues and parachutes so low: it increases speed, and, more importantly, accuracy. You are putting a lot of stress on the system by doing so, though.
- SRBs aren't very controllable. They're fine to just slow it in the last few seconds, but they won't help with guidance.
- The atmosphere ends at 10,000 km, one third of the way to the geosync (depending on what you go by). You should measure the height of your station above the ground, not the atmosphere.
Oh, and one major problem: It will take hours for the system to deploy, depending on where you are in the world.
I assume that Khrabrost Square is in polar orbit. Assuming the pods aren't using a lot of Delta-V to sharply change their orbit prior to reentry, they will need to wait for Khrabost Square to be coming up on the part of Earth where the supplies were requested, which I think will take a couple of hours at least. I could be wrong about this, though. I'm going off of guesswork, not simulations.
Alright, but I was going off 100+ hours in KSP.
You're probably correct. So I'll edit in the changes. The SRBs deploy similarily to the Soyuz capsule, by the way. And you're correct, I didn't bother to do my research about the atmosphere etc. etc., however, Khrabrost Square is not one station. I still have some secrets, see? Khrabrost Square is a series of remotely controlled sats controlled centrally from the Hub. The Hub itself is in a polar orbit, and is home to UITU-12. Each of the sats in a low orbit (12,000 km from sea) and has a quite quick orbit. Each sat has an orbital operations motor that allows it to go into geosync with the target location.
Khrabrost Square remade!
