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DY-100 & 500 Engine Calcs (Help)

Lord Hierarch

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So I browsed the online world, and found some cool info regarding these 2 ships: DY-100 and DY-500.

I need some help - I found a website that has the specifications for FASA's/SFC's ships and chronology.

Of interest, the DY-100's. Interplanetary cruisers from Eart to Moon/Mars/Belt and back around.

So I browsed the online world, and found some cool info regarding these 2 ships: DY-100 and DY-500.

I gotta ask, do any of the numbers make any sense?

Spaceflight Chronology provides a lot more hard numbers than even BSG or Expanse, but I dunno about it.


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DY-100:
Length: 100 meters.
Beam: 23.37 meters.
Draught: 34.9 meters.
Mass: 272 million kg (2720 mt).
Living/Fuel/Cargo: Interchangeable modules each 27x5.5x6.57m (795 usable volume)
Engine: Chemical/fission.

Performance:
Range:
  • Standard: 900,000 km.
  • Maximum: 387 million km (refit for duration travel).
Velocity:
  • Cruising: 55,000 km/hour.
  • Maximum: 80,000 km/hour.
  • Escape Velocity (Earth): 38,000 km/hour.
Voyage Duration:
  • Typical (Earth-Moon): 9.2 hours.
  • Maximum (Earth-Mars-Asterpolis-Mars-Earth): 934 days (with supply drops).
Thrust:
  • Chemical: Six chemical boost engines for Earth escape producing 4.2 million kg
  • Fission: One Amjet hydrogen fission thruster for interplanetary transfer producing 68,000 kg (average)

Asterpolis, while no concrete location is given, Ceres seems a popular hotspot for Belt stuff lmao I dunno.

Is there enough information to try and make some calcs or "feat" for the kind of fission/fusion drive that this era of Trek would've had?
 
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DY-500:

Length: 145 - 151 meters.
Beam: 33 meters.
Draught: 47 meters.
Weight: 3000 - 4100 - 4600 metric tons.
Propulsion:
  • Pulse fusion drives "with a net delta-vee of 3.7×107 NVP".
  • The Amjet V Thrusters were the most efficient engines of the 21st century, and the magnetohydrodynamic generator provided all on-board power. The class was particularly popular for travel to and within the asteroid belt.

Performance I:

Range:
  • Standard: 600 million km.
  • Maximum: 1.15 billion km.
Cruising Velocity: 135,000 km/hour
Typical Voyage Duration: 185 days (Earth-Asteropolis)
Thrust: 33,000 kg per fission engine

Performance II:

Cruising Velocity: 135,00 km/hour.
Thrust: 33,000 kg per fission engine.
Typical Voyage Duration: 185 days (Earth-Asteropolis)
Sustenance Duration: 424 days at standard ship's complement of 36.
 
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