@nyrath.bsky.social @toughsf.bsky.social @scottmanley.bsky.social or anyone who might have any insight, I am trying to figure out what the exhaust plume of a Fusion Rocket in vacuum might look like. The question in-full: krismur.tumblr.com/post/7996751... If you have any thoughts, please weigh in

#toughtober - Inertia An impact-fusion interplanetary pellet-rider based on this idea (toughsf.blogspot.com/2021/03/fusi...) by @toughsf.bsky.social #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #rocket

Improving some bots from over a decade ago. The older two are on the left #lego #robot #drone

Spacecraft in order of mass in metric tonnes Payload mass listed below if known This is mostly for me, since I've been overestimating the mass of different designs (big footprint doesn't mean high mass, and vice versa) #lego #space #rocket #spaceship #spacecraft

#toughtober - Round A lander based on art by @zanzaverse.bsky.social #lego #space #rocket #spacecraft #spaceship #lander #mars

The Campbell Clipper, "HMS Experience" (they call it a Clipper Ship because that Ship be Clipping through the bottle) #lego #brucecampbell

Been watching Star Trek TOS and wanted to make a semi-realistic Enterprise. The dish becomes a spingrav habitat, the nacelles become propellant tanks, and the transporter becomes laser-thermal shuttles (you can still "beam down/up") #lego #space #startrek #enterprise #spaceship

Size comparison of my smaller-scale builds Valkyrie TriplChii's interstellar plasma magsail TriplChii's interplanetary plasma magsail Kalpana Ona Medusa Firefly LCOTV AFFRE Saturn V Space Shuttle

#toughtober - Sail Interstellar Plasma Magsail pushed by relativistic particle beams. Very much based on the design by @triplchii.bsky.social #lego #space #spaceship #spacecraft #starship #magsail

#toughtober - Frisbee projectrho.com/public_html/... Just a small section of the 700km length of Frisbee's pion rocket. Most of those hundreds of km is just radiators to shed 14.5TW of waste heat, all for 100 tonnes of payload. #lego #space #starship #spaceship #spacecraft #rocket

#toughtober - Firefly projectrho.com/public_html/... Interstellar Z-Pinch fusion rocket with a Saturn V for scale #lego #space #spaceship #spacecraft #rocket #starship

Introducing #toughtober - a hard sci fi space art challenge, inspired by the @toughsf.bsky.social community.

Mars Mission - Direct Fusion Drive with a solid-core nuclear-thermal engine www.researchgate.net/publication/... #lego #space #rocket #spaceship #spacecraft

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 30 - Finale A spaceship, or as the remote drivers insist on calling it, a spaceboat. The proposed Titan Submarine probe. #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #titan #saturn #probe #submarine

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 29 - Drones A robot designed for freefall EVA work #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #robot

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 28 - Exploration A tiny probe sub makes first contact under Europa's ice #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #europa #submarine #alien

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 27 - Station A station in the style of Kalpana One, at 1-6th my normal scale #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #spacestation #kalpanaone

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 26 - Superluminal A spacer on board a relativistic starship, being initiated upon crossing the 0.707c "light barrier" projectrho.com/public_html/... eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/initiation... #lego #space #spaceship #starship #rocket

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 25 - Lasers One of many phased-array laser emitters on the lunar surface which formed the beginning of the beamed-power network. #lego #space #luna #laser #sbsp #solar

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 24 - Testflight Preparations for the first launch of an Orion nuclear pulse rocket in the far north of Canada. projectrho.com/public_html/... #lego #space #rocket #spaceship #spacecraft #shiptember #projectorion

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 23 - Blue Transport 'False-Color Blues,' a Hyde fusion rocket, decelerates towards a station in Triton orbit. #lego #space #rocket #spaceship #spacecraft #shiptember

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 22 - Fire! An Orion warship launches its compliment of missiles while under fire from Casaba Howitzers #lego #space #spaceship #spacecraft #rocket #projectorion #casabahowitzer

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 21 - Junk Two proposed ways to deal with space junk: zap it with a laser, causing ablation, which can push it down into the atmosphere. Or send a craft with a net or catcher bag to grab it directly #lego #spaceship #spacecraft #rocket #satellite

#SST25 Day 20 - Ruins "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand on Iapetus. . . . Near them, on the regolith, Half sunk a shattered visage lies..." Saturn's rings are 10-100 million years old. The Chicxulub impact was 66 million years ago... "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 19 - Missiles Larger versions of the pieces I've been using as missiles. Bomb-pumped XRay lasers, KKVs, and SNAK / Casaba Howitzer #lego #space #rocket #missile #spaceship #spacecraft

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 18 - Ambush The previous day's tug, under the guise of replenishing the larger rocket, detonates the Casaba Howitzer it smuggled close. #lego #space #rocket #spaceship #spacecraft #casabahowitzer

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 17 - Mercenary A 1963 Lockheed tug maneuvers some unauthorized cargo into position projectrho.com/public_html/... #lego #space #rocket #spacecraft #spaceship

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 16 - Armor The previous warships use actively cooled armor, which circulates liquid tin underneath the skin, causing the whole surface to act like a radiator. #lego #space #rocket #spaceship #spacecraft #laserstar #beamstar

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 15 - Wingman A laser warship and particle beam warship, which help cover each other's weaknesses #lego #space #spaceship #spacecraft #rocket #beamstar #laserstar

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 14 - Carrier Does a tandem body negate the advantages of an oblique wing? Maybe. Is it a good idea to air launch a rocket from such a complicated design? Probably not. Does it look really cool though? You be the judge #lego #space #rocket #spaceship #obliquewing

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 13 - Red The fusion rocket from the previous day, lit by the glow of its liquid droplet radiators #lego #space #rocket #spacecraft #spaceship

@nyrath.bsky.social or anyone who would know: How much might magnetic systems interfere with each other on a spacecraft? For example, can you have a magnetic nozzle for a fusion rocket, dusty plasma or curie point radiators, and a particle beam or coilgun all at once, or do you have to pick one?

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 12 - Docking Any craft with a fission/fusion/antimatter reactor or engine must have its docking ports at the far end, usually the nose, to stay within its shadow shield and avoid radiation. Structures like radiators must also stay inside the shadow. #lego #spaceship

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 11 - Dropship Inspired by the 'Flapjack' by @arkane-systems.net (eldraeverse.com/2014/07/27/t...) #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #rocket #projectorion #dropship

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 10 - Convoy Based on the North American Rockwell "Prime Movers" #lego #space #rover

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 9 - Hunter Spaceguard telescope and response craft looking out for any dangerous asteroids which might need to be redirected, either by attaching a plasma magsail, or hitting it with neutron bombs #lego #space #rocket #spaceship #spacecraft #asteroid

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 8 - Spaceport Since the points of arrival and departure for structures like Space Elevators and Launch Loops mostly amount to train stations, here's the bottom end of a Launch Loop emerging from underground somewhere near the equator. #lego #space #launchloop

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 7 - Green A waterwall which cultivates algae both for oxygen and food (projectrho.com/public_html/...) #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #astronaut #algaponics

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#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 6 - Tandem A 2-stage reusable shuttle inspired by the Boeing Space Freighter. One shuttle, loaded with only fuel, acts as a flyback booster for the second. #lego #space #rocket #spaceshuttle #spaceship #spacecraft #spaceplane

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 5 - Freighter A Medusa pulse sail at 1/6th my usual scale #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #rocket #projectorion

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 4 - Repairs An astronaut uses a Hull Breach Kit to fix a leak. The neutral buoyancy bubbles have already been drawn to the spot, and one has burst, covering the opening with quick-setting resin. #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #astronaut

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 3 - Fighter While space fighters may not be a thing, conventional fighters can still play a role in space combat. An F-23 deploying an anti-satellite missile. #lego #space #missile #yf23 #f23 #fighter #fighterjet #asat

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 2 - Guns, Guns, Guns! I don't do a ton of military stuff (though I have some planned for the future), so for now here's a technician inspecting the pulse-unit dispenser on an Orion pre-launch. A sort of nuke-firing autocannon. #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #orion

I thought about doing a #Spaceshiptember2025 here on Bluesky. Draw, write, build, model, animate, whatever you want, just no fucking AI. No strings attached, just have fun, do all, do some, do none. Add #SST25, I'll try to repost as many as I can, as I see them. Join and have fun!

#spaceshiptember #SST25 Day 1 - Launch! Passenger and Cargo aeroshells lifting off a Launch Loop on the way to orbit. The passenger module can make a gliding reentry and landing in case of emergency #lego #space #rocket #lofstromloop #launchloop #spacecraft #spaceship #shiptember

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Big onion-style, semi-reusable 2STO along the lines of NEXUS and SERV-MURP, inspired by @evergreenhills.bsky.social #lego #space #rocket #spacecraft #spaceship

me watching Gundam ...also, to be honest, @opensketchbook.bsky.social

Plasma Magsail - Uncrewed Cargo Transport projectrho.com/public_html/... A tethered array of plasma magsails (all but 1 offscreen) provide slow-haul cargo, pushed either by particle beams or the solar wind Reactor section flies away during cargo loading/unloading #lego #space #spaceship #spacecraft