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I design realistic armed spacecraft. One of Gerry's Kids.
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"Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst of Evils."
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇲
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Don't Forgot Robert McCall American Space futurism!
I'm more than happy to deliver on this request!
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@voubi1
Made this lovely Graphic with all of the Spacecraft currently in The Lunar War with some IRL examples.
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Hey
@NASA
Tell your PR team this isn't a good look
Is visiting Jupiter on your bucket list? Let’s face facts, it’s not going to happen. But have we got the next best thing for you!
#SendYourName
aboard
@EuropaClipper
when this intrepid spacecraft launches to study Jupiter’s icy moon in '24.
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USSF Alan Shepard undergoing a rapid reactor startup to War Emergency Thrust
Animation by the infinitely talented
@SalmonTheKing
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@voubi1
Modeled and rendered these amazing images of the EUSF ANEMM/NEMM (Space FREMM) frigate.
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Constructed using mass driver launched lunar materials the Multi Gigawatt Space Solar Power Satellites provide carbon Free baseload energy for the Earth.
(Teller for scale)
Renders/Models by
@voubi1
for
@TheLunarWar
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An updated version of the Nemesis animation by the Great
@voubi1
The Song is "Tears of the Dragon" by Hiroyuki Sawano
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@voubi1
Rendered a great image showing the Scale of all the currently Modeled spacecraft from The Lunar War next to some IRL rockets for comparison
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Here is USSF Edward Teller, an interplanetary capable armed spacecraft fitted with 100 MW laser as a Primary Weapon.
Renders/Model by the talented
@AstroBioGeek
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More Nuclear power is always better
BEYOND POWER: Water desalination projects could grow to 20% of our water-related energy demand by 2040💧.
This energy-intensive process is typically powered by fossil fuels—BUT it could be decarbonized by leveraging nuclear reactors.
Learn more:
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Teller and Frens!
Render by:
@voubi1
SSTO by:
@avtomat47
Teller by:
@AstroBioGeek
ACES By: Jason Cunningham
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One thing that isn't really ever shown or talked about as much that approaching even the most mundane nuclear spacecraft from the rear or outside the shadow shield zone when the reactor(s) are active is not going to be fun for the missile/spacecraft.
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Borowski Nuclear Lunar Shuttle here we come!
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Credit to Janpol on the ToughSF Discord
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Here's a size comparison of all the Spacecraft modeled so far.
(With a WIP EUSF Spacecraft)
Thanks to
@voubi1
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BOI
increased launch cadence prompted by starlink being the catalyst for brilliant pebbles 2 would be the funniest thing ever
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LANTR is Awesome
(INSTAR NTR's Transitioning to LOx Augmentation/Afterburning mode)
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The Robert Esnault-Pelterie leaving LLO. The light in the nozzles is from the fuel elements operating at 3200 Kelvin acting as a point light source.
Render/Model by
@voubi1
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Brilliant Pebbles is readily capable of being developed into an operational system if the Will was there. Space based lasers need more time but we only need a 2 MW laser with a 10 meter mirror. Starship would make this vastly easier to deploy than the SDI era ever imagined.
Unironically, SDI and its derivatives absolutely would have worked.
Now ironically, MDA’s institutional distaste for spaceborne effectors stunts our ability to field a modern SDI analog. That and a depressing lack of appropriations
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Ready For Anduril KKV's on USSF spacecraft operating is cis-lunar space
Anduril intends to be the world leader in rocket motor technology and production. Reliable, affordable, durable, and extraordinarily performant rocket motors that will power weapons from Javelin/Stinger class up to cis-lunar space fleet defense.
This is a game-changer.
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Older WIP renders of the PRC Fleet being built/Staged at the PRC EML 3 asteroid base
Renders/Models by the Great
@REALFR0S7
and
@voubi1
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The JSSDF Tanegashima Class is Japan's first dedicated Armed Spacecraft. Drawn by the talented
@Doroni_max
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A long running joke
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Teller was a great American who approved the progenitor of every reusable space launch vehicle with DC-X. His only real blemish was his obsession with bomb pumped lasers which aren't a viable system for missile defense. Then he came to his senses and supported Brilliant Pebbles.
Happy StarWars day!
If you think Vader was scary wait until you hear about Teller!
#May4thBeWithYou
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Here's an Alternative soundtrack version of the Shepard Animation
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- The Lunar War -
Brainchild of
@L5Resident
, TLW is a worldbuilding and art project dedicated to visualizing the near future expansion of humanity in space, its efforts to industrialize cislunar space, and the conflicts this new frontier leads to.
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The Robert Esnault-Pelterie engaging inbound enemy missiles in Earth Orbit
Render/Model by
@voubi1
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Another comparison of the Armed US and French NTP Spacecraft, ISS for Scale
Models/Render by:
@voubi1
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"lol" said SpaceX and the DoD, "lmao".
All I've gotta say is build your own if you wanna but keep Starship OUT of your military bullsh*t! Thank you.
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For SDI Sunday I present the Modernized version of SDI Space Based Laser. Designed to fit inside a Starship and be launched in one go.
Art by
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I really want to include a scene of this occurring between a commercial propellant tanker and militia/military spacecraft at some point.
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360 Animation of the USSF Alan Shepard done by Grokodaemon.
Full spec sheet and writeup coming soonTM
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As I've said before, people complaining about lost contractor jobs and thus congressional support don't get that the SAME contractors can be paid to do something more useful than SLS!
A nuclear powered Moon base with mining and propellent production doesn't exactly happen without a lot of people paid to work on it.
When we get closer, it's a discussion we need to have.
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KKV's based on the Brilliant Pebbles interceptors are used as the primary long range weapons on Combat Spacecraft. Unboosted they have 6 km/s of Delta-V while booster versions have 10 km/s.
Model/Render by KRKIII
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As CEO
@torybruno
writes in his recent
@Medium
post: “Like an angsty teenager, hypersonic missiles aren’t bad, they’re just misunderstood.”
Head to
#Medium
to read more:
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Here's an older WIP render of the USSF Edward Teller towing/supporting 2 Shepard Class Gunships while in Interplanetary Space. The Shepard class being meant to operate within Planet-Moon systems.
Render/Model from the talented
@AstroBioGeek
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The best black hole starship I've ever seen!
I should draw more far-future stuff
A singularity ship accelerates to a significant fraction of the speed of light as she feeds on a denser area of interstellar space.
#scifiart
#spaceship
#digitalart
#spaceart
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Developed just weeks before the conflict, the weapons kit for the common Orbital Tug/lander provided a greater number of armed combatants for the USSF in the US Space Militia.
Model by:
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:)
Does 'realistic scifi' get any better than
@voubi1
bringing
@L5Resident
's spaceship designs to life?
This is the SA-224 Robert Esnault-Pelterie, a nuclear warship with three laser turrets, 35mm CIWS and 10.7 km/s of deltaV.
Excellent
#space
#art
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I'm having a hard time thinking of a way NASA could make Space Based Solar Power look worse with the release of this report. So many architecture decisions leading to their conclusions were just bad.
NASA report offers pessimistic take on space-based solar power
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Space race 2 time
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The American's don't have the biggest common spacecraft on the block. (WIP Model of French Nuclear Spacecraft) Model by the excellent
@voubi1
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The purple exhaust inside the engine bell is what a Hydrogen NTR should look like operating at 3500K. The white-blue color is when LOX afterburning/augmentation is used.
@ToughSf
@nyrath
@BeyondNerva
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Nuclear and Space based solar energy is how we should power the future no matter what. Each is an effectively inexhaustible energy source that compliments the other's strengths and weaknesses.
No Shortage of Dreams — "Electricity from Space: The 1970s DOE/NASA Solar Power Satellite Studies"
What it says on the tin — lots of good artwork. The town where I live, Flagstaff, Arizona, would have had a rectenna close by.
#spacehistory
#twitterstorians
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@mikusingularity
@nyrath
@voubi1
Not really besides the jokingly phased "COADEcore" for the space cones/cylinder spacecraft.
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@voubi1
Also made a US KKV more related to IRL Concepts like the Advanced technology kill Vehicle.
KKV's based on the Brilliant Pebbles interceptors are used as the primary long range weapons on Combat Spacecraft. Unboosted they have 6 km/s of Delta-V while booster versions have 10 km/s.
Model/Render by KRKIII
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A comparison of area required for 300 GWe of power using the 1980 NASA/DOE space based solar power satellites.
Animation by Ed Tate
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The DC-X, a Strategic Defense Initiative funded program meant to be developed into a cost effective reusable launch vehicle for systems like Brilliant Pebbles is the genesis of the reusable rockets in use and development today.
30 years ago today the DC-X flew its maiden flight. Our generation owes so much to those who came before us, and today there’s a new fully reusable hydrogen powered space vehicle prototype beginning its own test program - thank you so much to the DC-X team for your inspiration!…
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@systems_zero
@nyrath
@ErlTyriss
@defconfuck
@cerebrate
The Shielding arrangement is going to be funky with those. I made sure that it wouldn't happen again.
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Truthful, the biggest SBSP advocates also want Nuclear Thermal/Electric propulsion. Your irrational hatred of them makes zero sense.
Invest money into Space Based Solar Power over shitty nuclear stages please.
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Tokydre had the Shepard Printed at 1/700 scale and put it next too other models of the same scale
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@SpeedShot7
@TheLunarWar
@voubi1
These spacecraft are assembled/manufactured on orbit with material feedstocks/components launched on reusable heavy lift rockets. For most of the armed spacecraft the tankage is manufactured on orbit.
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While it is a terrible misstep that DC-X wasn't developed into an orbital system it planted the seeds of development that has fruited the number of reusable launchers being developed today.
Single Stage Rocket Technology or the McDonnell Douglas DC-Y.
(Was it the Right Thing to Do?)
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