A TL8 nuclear pulse drive with fuel for 15 hours is going to be 5.29 lbs. per lb. of initial thrust. Add a bit for frame and payload, and the thrust starts out at 0.15 G or so before it slowly increases to the single digits. Drop tanks would help a little, but that would mean a custom-built ship for this specific run.
With 87.5% fuel -- and that is a lot for such a design -- the delta-V will be roughly 130 mps. I don't want to do the maths before breakfast, but I'm confident that we're talking about less than 3 million miles distance. Forget Mars. Forget Venus. Perhaps a near-earth asteroid on the slow way to Earth. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
