Rocket Design Agency - A Playtesting Quest

[4WheelSword]

Rules and Systems
Here's the basic design rules
Here's the basic game rules

Calculators
Here's a rocket equation calculator which will come in useful
Ballistic trajectory calculator
Glide ratio calculator

Current Available Technology

Spoiler: Payload

• Armaments: Conventional Warhead, Early Nuclear Warhead
• Scientific: Basic system
• Crewed: Flight Seat, Flight Controls, Early Environmental Systems.
• Flight: YMR Control, Thruster Pack
• Communication: Basic Antennae
• Power: Battery Pack
• Recovery: Main Chute, Human-rated chute, back-up chute

Spoiler: Rocket

• Tank: Heavy Duty, Structural Steel
• Motor: XLR-1-1, XLR-1-4, XMR-1
• Fuels: Alc/LOX, N2H4/LOX, N2H4/RFNA
• Staging: Hot staging, Explosive bolt, Parallel Staging
• Guidance: Basic Gyro, Basic Beam Riding
• Aerodynamics: Carbon Vanes, Small Fins

Spoiler: SRB

• Apeture: Early
• Type: Centre-Bore

Spoiler: Engine

• Cycle: Primitive, Multi-Feed, Gas Generator
• Injector: Dual Split, Dual Impingement
• Nozzle: Atmospheric

And, as ever, my thanks to @Estro for being an excellent writing buddy and rocket nerd.

 

[brmj]

Okay, I'm here now. Point me to the design rules.

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Rocket construction rules 0.8

Here's the game rules, since it will matter for lookign up things like what stats are used for which rolls, and volume thresholds for crew stress and such:
Space Race Co-op/Comp

And here's my shitty spreadsheet cluttered with stuff from this latest project. The engine design is pretty foolproof, but the rocket and spacecraft stuff is all hacked together on the fly. Still, it should be pretty obvious how it works if you poke around a little.
Google Sheets - create and edit spreadsheets online, for free.

 

[4WheelSword]

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

Spoiler: 1958

- 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

Spoiler: 1959

- 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)

Spoiler: EPL

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)