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zapkitty wrote:
The limitation, of course, will be that you can only run the DPF intermittently.

Let the station heat rejection system chill the heat sink back down, and repeat.

But, unlike my previous 1 MWe low-power concept, during this power cycle you can run the reactor at whatever power setting gives the greatest efficiency.

Full-tilt boogie… be it 5 MWe or 11 MWe.

bursts of large power could have advantages, for placing your delta-v closer to where you need it. but i don’t know if the gain from that would cover the the mass penalty.

contrast this with: running radiators hotter lets you make them smaller. and heat rejection by venting plasma into the exhaust nozzle might cover all of it: giving extra thrust, at lower Isp, with all of the needed heat rejection.