Manufacturer: Hueco Spacecraft Inc., White Sands Spaceport, America, Terra.The International Astronautical Federation plaque inĬonnection with her work in the Jovian moons area. Her reliability earned for herself and herĬrews three ratings of excellence, two efficiency awards,Ī UN citation, numerous national commendations, and Last of her class to be decommissioned and removed from She was the first ship to bear the name and the Years before being sold to a local salvage yard. She was finally returned to White Sands Spaceport, sealed, decommissioned, and left to stand for two Until being mothballed and placed in circum-terrestrial Obsolescence forced her to confine her operations to theĮarth-Luna area in which she served in many capacities She operated as a support ship in the Titan expedition to Saturn, but She was instrumental in the sustenance of the outpostsĪnd colony on Venus. After her modification to an express cargo vessel, She was a member of theįleet which put down the Asgard Space Station Rebellion. Space Force line fleet, and an additional five years in Saw twenty-two years of service as a ship of the UN The space ship Absyrtis of the Argonaut Class UN Space Force interplanetary cruiser, missile launching, universal type, Argonaut Class Louis says if the club will promise that, he will give the ship to them free, along with any used rocket parts in the lot needed for the refurbishing.) Louis that the club would love to refurbish the old ship, and fly it on a short hop to Luna. Louis' last command when he was in the UN Space Force, and when the ship was decommissioned he managed to obtain it at scrap metal prices.Ĭlub president Chubb Delany has an insane idea. On a field trip to Luna Louis' rocket junkyard they are stunned to find the space ship Absyrtis sitting in the lot. The fans want to travel in space in the worst way, but civilians are not allowed to fly in their own ships. (ed note: in the year 2050, our heros are members of the Southwestern Rocket Society (SRS) fan club. You can see a size comparison of the Absyrtis and other spacecraft here. Although many of those transfer will take more than a decade of transit time. Enough for a one-way orbit-to-orbit Hohmann transfer to pretty much anywhere in the solar system. I figure that the delta-V is about 29 km/sec, which is pretty good actually. Except I calculate an initial acceleration of only 2.5 g instead of the listed 7.4 g. I did some cross-checking on the performance numbers and they all seem to check out. Stine chose a specific impulse of 2,680 seconds, which is better than a closed-cycle gas core nuclear rocket but less than an open-cycle gas core. The resultant high-velocity gas is further accelerated by neutron heating. His "thermal-catalyst" fuel (aka "thermo-juice") is perfectly stable under normal conditions, but when subjected to a certain neutron flux the molecule explodes. He postulated a catalyst propellant: but nuclear, not chemical. Stine created some handwavium out of his imagination.
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Stine used the Absyrtis in his novel CONTRABAND ROCKET written under the nom de plume "Lee Correy".įor purposes of the novel the Absyrtis needed a specific impulse higher than standard LOX/LH 2 (450 sec) but lower than a full blown nuclear thermal rocket engine. Harry Stine, former project engineer on the Viking and Aerobee rocket programs at White Sands Proving Ground. Yes this is a fictional spacecraft, but it was designed by G.