Large Atmospheric Count: Large Flat Atmospheric Count: Small Ion Count: Small Hydrogen Count: Small Atmospheric Count: Small Flat Atmospheric Count: Ascent angle: 90° 45° *This is used when you want to use bottom and rear thrusters together. The calculator will reduce thrust to 70.7%. ...
By using this space travel calculator in Newton's universe mode, you can find out that you need about 2200 years to arrive at the nearest galaxy! And, if you want to stop there, you need an additional 1000 years. Nobody lives for 3000 years! Is intergalactic travel impossible for us, ...
The fact that this system uses a gridded ion thruster, rather than a Hall effect thruster (HET), is interesting, since HETs are the area that Soviet, then Russian, engineers and scientists have excelled at. The higher isp makes sense for a long-term tug, but with a system that seems ...