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Rocket Design Agency - A Playtesting Quest

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  • Informational
    • NASA
    Brad L. Whipple - Director, New Alleghany Space Administration

    Payload Design - +1
    Rocket Design - +2
    Engine Design - +3
    Mission Planning - +1
    Flight Control - +2
    Damage Control - +0
    Spacecraft Activity - +0
    Extravehicular Activity - +0
    Experimental Activity - +2

    Flight Objectives
    - Continue scientific launches, progressing to probes into the space beyond orbit by year end 1959.
    - Begin experiments which will allow a progression to human spaceflight before year end 1960.
    - Cooperate with the Armed Forces in developing their abilities through the application of spaceflight.

    Mission Schedule - Current Date: January 1960
    - Low Orbit 1 (Summer 1958) - Hope-2 (Partial failure)
    - Re-entry test 1 - Sub-orbital - Full Success, August 1958
    - Low Orbit 2 - Partial Failure, Hope-3 , October 1958
    - Re-entry test 2 - Failure, November 1958
    - Military Communications - Success, ARTS, December 1958
    - High Orbit 1 - Success, Hope-4, January 1959
    - Re-entry test 3 - Success, March 1959
    - Bio-sciences - Launch Failure, July 1959
    - Discovery 1, Success, September 1959
    - High Orbit 2 - Success, Hope-5, October 1959
    - Lunar Probe - Launch Failure, Artemis-Lunar, November 1959
    - Bio-sciences - Success, Astrocaphe-Chuck, December 1959
    - Discovery 2 - Failure, January 1960
    - Astrocathe test - Success, animal in space, February 1960
    - March lost due to Artemis redesign
    - NAN payload - April 1960 - First Hermes Flight
    - Crown 3 - Spring/Summer 1960
    - Commercial payload - Summer 1960
    - IRVOS 1 - Summer 1960
    - NAA Communications - Summer/Fall 1960
    - Space Camp test - Summer/Fall 1960
    - NAN payload - Fall/Winter 1960
    - Commercial payload -Winter 1960
    - Astrocathe test - Winter 1960
    - NAA Communications - Spring 1961

    - Astrocaphe phase 1 (3 crewed flights)
    - Astrocaphe phase 2 (3 crewed flights)

    Hardware
    - Prometheus (1M to LEO)
    - Hermes-L (6M to LEO)
    - Hermes-B (8M to LEO)

    Andre Larkin - Team Lead at EPL
    Rocket Design 0
    Engine Design +2


    EPL Design Team
    Antony Miratha, Aerodynamics
    Susan Stone, Astrophysics
    Michael Cole, Rocket Engineering
    Amy Mathews, Trajectory Planning
    Simon T. Harrison, Chemical Engineering

    +2 Rocket Design, +2 Payload Design +1 Engine Design, +1 Fuel Selection, +1 Flight Planning

    Side Characters
    Dr. Evan Hart - Research Director at EPL
    Arthur Ley, proponent of Lunar flight.
    Franz Haber, Doctor and researcher.
    Dieter von Markand, Pacifist and astrophysicist.

    EPL Facilities
    Design workshop
    Chemical research laboratory
    Launch analysis equipment
    (Please note that EPL has neither rocket nor engine manufacturing facilities)
     
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    • [x] Deadlines were promised and kept too.

    Blowing up on the pad is Not Glamorous.
     
    [X] Prometheus was painstakingly checked and rechecked to ensure it would fly. (Best chance of safe flight).
     
    [X] Deadlines were promised and kept too.


    I trust our design. It does not require being rushed, and it doesn't need being painstakingly re-checked every time someone so much as brushes against it by accident.
    Adhoc vote count started by BungieONI on Jan 18, 2019 at 7:19 PM, finished with 11 posts and 10 votes.
    • [X] Deadlines were promised and kept too.
      [X] Prometheus was painstakingly checked and rechecked to ensure it would fly. (Best chance of safe flight).
      [X] Prometheus was painstakingly checked and rechecked to ensure it would fly. (Best chance of safe flight).
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    C6P1: Prometheus Ascendant
  • Threadmarks
    • Sometimes you miss the feeling of waiting outside for a launch, the wind blowing cool across your skin on a muggy west coast afternoon and watching the rocket sway gently. Admittedly, the air-con and the chairs here at the cape are a little more comfortable than that, and the equipment - oh, the equipment is incredible. The Air Force has spared no expense in preparing for their own launch program. Now you're here, you and the rest of the EPL gang, using borrowed equipment and facilities to try and throw the first ever satellite into orbit.

    Hope-1 rests atop the massive prometheus as it prepares to return fire to the heavens and the gods. It is hope that drives it. Hope that you will be successful. Hope that it will function. The hope of being first. Oh, it's such a glorious dream. A dream that may be about to become a success.

    You listen as the first checklists begin to be counted down by the launch team, Amy still at their head. She has come one hell of a way, you think, as the excitement grows in your stomach. Hopefully she will go a lot further after today. A promethean rise, you chuckle to yourself, before quieting your thoughts so you can focus on what is to come.

    -First stage
    -- Pre-flight
    -- Ignition
    -- Lift-off

    Please roll:

    - 2d10 + 2 - Pre-flight checks
    - 2d10 + 2 - Ignition
    - 2d10 + 3 - Lift-Off
     
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    • - 2d10 + 2 - Ignition

    Mine.

    With that first roll before the update, I think we won't be the first though. Ah well.

    E: 17 is a full success.
    BungieONI threw 2 10-faced dice. Reason: Ignition! Total: 15
    6 6 9 9
     
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    C6P2: The surly bonds of earth, loosed.
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    • You hold your breath, but the pre-flight checks finish without a hitch, all the controllers reporting systems green, fuel tanks full and ignition systems armed and ready. Over in the corner, a petite woman with a small voice informs you all that Hope-1 is beaming a steady signal and seems ready to fly.

    Then comes the countdown and the aching heartbeats of a steady flow of numbers, the slow drumroll of 5...4...3...2...1…
    And it ignites, the twinned engine bells exploding into flame beneath the towering rocket. A huge plume of smoke is kicked up as someone shouts "Good ignition, Prometheus is go!" and the entire object of your fixated eyes attentions is hidden from their view.

    Then, from out of the haze, the gantry drops away, the skeletal support breaking itself in two to free the straining rocket. It shoots up out of the smoke cloud and into the sky, cameras tracking it eagerly. Prometheus is go. Prometheus is go!

    -Second Stage
    -- Max-Q
    -- Staging
    -- Orbital Insertion

    Please roll:

    2d10 + 2 - Max-Q
    2d10 + 1 - Staging
    2d10 + 2 - Orbital Insertion
     
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    • Well, any failures from now on at the very least hopefully won't be as spectacularly terrible as Vanguard was IRL, seeing as that detonated on the pad.
     
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