Edit jan 30: I screwed this up royally the first time around mixing feet and km. Shouldn’t have started doing stream-of-consciousness jotting until I was sure I was actually conscious…
spaceplane sanity check: wishlist
4 tons payload in a
3 meter x 4 meter payload module
(most space payloads are light for their bulk)
2 crew
2 mission specialists/passengers
and/or
4 more ms/p in a passenger module
2 power modules with 10 FF cores each for 100 MWe
2 compressor/MHD engine nacelles providing 250 kn each
air breathing to mach 3 @ 10km
air breathing w/DPF augment from 10km to 100km
straight DPF from 100km to orbit.
