Orion AKA "old Boom-boom" is the ultimate consumable nuclear thermal rocket, based on the "firecracker under a tin can" principle. Except the tin can is a spacecraft and the firecracker is a nuclear warhead. we are talking 3.3% of the speed of light got to thank TESLER for his atlas missile quite helpfull, this is not an entirely accurate model, but it should suffice to give a pretty good visual, plus ive included a link to a pdf of a bunch of schematics and stuff #interstellar #nuclear_impulse_propulsion #nuclear_rocket #nuclear_spacecraft #nuclear_thermal_rocket #project_orion #starship
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