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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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    • Oh that's awesome in that we won the contract with a good fifty boosters to be produced. :)

    [X] Our own chemical lab (Allows better fuel research)
     
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    4WheelSword said:

    Shown here are the two winners of the AJAX program, the MGM-9 (redesignated Zeus) and MGM-10, in the colours they would be painted for service with the New Alleghany army.
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    I'm not sure green is really the best choice of colors for a missile, but they're probably using some standard anti-corrosive paint chosen for reasons other than color.
     
    What's that weird first stage skirt? Is it a protective cover or aerodynamic feature or something?
     
    [X] Our own chemical lab (Allows better fuel research)

    As always, I'm a sucker for pretty rocket art.
     
    All those lovely Prohibitions. Bottom ones even have single axis gimble. Expensive bloody engines, though.
     
    [X] Our own chemical lab (Allows better fuel research)

    Not having to rely on other labs to figure out how to make kerosene work as a rocket propellant would be a godsend. Especially if we later get asked to develop a more storable missile, because we could offer a RP-1/HTP rocket, instead of a potentially explosive hydrazine/NTO or UDMH/NTO hypergolic rocket. Or a potentially difficult to engineer solid rocket motor, which can't be used for anything other than that missile project.
     
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    News of the World - 1952
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    • News of the World - 1952
    North Alleghany sources announce the detonation of their first nuclear weapon. They are pleased to reveal that the Super-Bomb is now not solely the purview of Caspia and that there is no longer an 'atomic gap'. Sources say that the Federal Government looks forward to exploring the defensive and peaceful capabilities of such a powerful device, unlike the aggressive stance that has been taken by the Caspian Empire in the last two years.

    Meanwhile, in Caspia, the first atomic reactor has just come online. Powering just the local town, it is a small-scale type which officials state is to be the first in a series of steadily advancing stations that will one day power every home and factory in the great expanse of Caspia, a new wave of technology which will bring about the future!

    For now, however, the people of Chornny look forward to a future of constant, unending power brought forth through the wonders of modern science.

    In Europa, more developments are afoot in the field of rocket powered flight. The RK-2, or Raketen Two, is a winged aircraft much like its predecessor but significantly more capable. With sharply swept wings, a narrow fuselage and a massive engine bell aft, it is expected that the new aircraft will continue the progression of Europan developments in hypersonic flight and pave the way for military and scientific aircraft capable of extremely high speeds and altitudes.

    It is rumoured that they are also working on a civilian rocket program which rivals that of New Alleghany but without the intended aggressive goals and with a stated focus on scientific endeavours.

    In Akitsukini, a new missile has been demonstrated with even greater range, power and tracking capabilities than the previous one. While as of yet unnamed in national media, this missile will surely be able to defeat any further Caspian development in bombers with its multi-ton payload and extreme speed. Also shown off is a version of their earlier missile carried by an aircraft. This presumably has required a conversion to solid fuels and, while no questions have been answered at this time, this demonstrates an ability with such materials unseen elsewhere.

    Also noticed is major work on something the Akitsukini government has only referred to as 'the project', though the evacuation of several islands indicates a major attempt at secrecy or a risk which thus far has not been demonstrated.

    Finally, the world governments have announced that in 1957 there will be an 'International Geophysical Year' to encourage the study of various fields which will improve the human experience world wide.

    What shall the next project involve?
    [ ] It is time to look to orbit (timeskip - large)
    [ ] It is time to build a truly intercontinental weapon (timeskip - small)
    [ ] It is time to think of rocket powered flight (timeskip - none)
     
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