Next-Generation Aerospace

Next-Generation Aerospace
Research Cost: 5000
Summary
Aeronautical engineers explore reusable suborbital and single-stage-to-orbit craft.
Description
For too long, our efforts to venture beyond Earth have been inherently wasteful affairs. Every rocket jettisons multiple stages, each of which contains its own engines, propellant, and other equipment, during its passage into space. This is obscenely expensive, and also a source of increasingly problematic orbital debris fields. If we are to launch more spacecraft, more often, using them as we use airplanes, we must develop reusable vessels. While partially reusable vessels have flown in the past, new refinements in parachutes and airbags now allow the recovery of every stage. Because even this remains highly inefficient, our engineers have prototyped a far superior alternative - a single-stage-to-orbit, or SSTO, craft, which expend no major hardware during their flight. This has been achieved partly by advances in materials and construction techniques, which enable the craft to survive hypersonic flight and multiple orbital re-entries, and partly by improving mass-ratio sufficiently to carry both copious amounts of propellant and a crew/cargo payload all the way to orbit, without any need to separate. With this achieved, we can begin to think about reaching space as an almost everyday pursuit.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Advanced Chemical Rocketry 1000 Carbon Nanotubes 3500 Advanced Carbon Manipulation 1000
Total Research Cost (including itself)
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	0		10500
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	0	Total	10500
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
Improved Shipbuilding Techniques • Integrated Earth-Space Economy • Exoatmospheric Fighters		(33%)Aerospike Engines • (33%)Directed Energy Launch Systems • (40%)Hypersonic Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles • (33%)Scramjets • (33%)Hybrid Air-Breathing Rockets • (90%)Community Policing Drones
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Org Stars Stats and Missions Bonuses and Resource Incomes Affinities and Requirements Purchase Cost Random Aerospace31 50%: 6% to 8% 50%: 6% to 8% 2 to 3 1 to 2 Affinity: Next-Generation Aerospace 600 to 800 20 to 40 Random Aerospace22 1 50%: 4% to 6% 4% to 6% 75%: 5% to 10% 4% 20 to 30 Affinity: Next-Generation Aerospace 500 to 600 Random Aerospace13 25%: 2% to 4% 50%: 2% to 4% 50%: 2% to 4% 2% to 5% 2% 2 to 4 50%: 0.5 Next-Generation Aerospace 250 to 550
Effects
Increases the maximum military tech level for all human nations by 0.5
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Quote
"You're jerking my chain, right? There's no way in hell that I'm spending millions on sending a rocket into space if we just let half of it sink to the bottom of the ocean." Chairman Soren Van Wyk, The Initiative When asked by SABC News about whether he intended to join the billionaire space-race, 2021
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