Challenge: 1,000km Laser Drill 1kt max mass, 10Mc max cost
Jan 5, 2017 1:22:59 GMT
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Post by jasonvance on Jan 5, 2017 1:22:59 GMT
The challenge is to build a 1,000km laser or laser array, that has a total cost of 10,000,000c or less and a total mass of 1,000t or less that can burn through 25cm layers of Silica Aerogel, Amorphous Carbon, Tantalum Hafnium Carbide, Aramid Fiber, and Osmium in the fastest time possible.
Total cost comes down to the Laser + Laser's Radiator + Reactor and radiator required (using standardized value for reactor and supported radiator). Only the Laser and Laser's radiator will need to be designed for this challenge, delivery platform for the laser(s) can be anything and it's mass / cost is not included in the challenge (intercepting the stationary target from the same orbit takes less than .001 km/s delta-v so it can be safely ignored for this challenge).
To insure only the laser performance is measured (and not reactors) we will assume all reactors, and the reactor's radiator, will operate at 2900 watts / credit and 54 watts / gram so that varying reactor designs are not a factor in laser performance.
To test your design load into sandbox around the same orbital object as the target with your laser(s) and the target outside of interception range (restart if you spawn too close until a trajectory is required for intercept to insure spawning in at max range). Plot and intercept from a light burn so that the velocity difference is less than 30m/s on the tactical screen. If the velocity difference is greater than 30m/s restart and do a lighter burn (we want the target as stationary as possible to prevent the hole drilled from needing to be larger than normal, or on the inverse for intensities increasing by lasers closing distance). Turn on ignore max range on the laser(s), target the thruster on the target (to fire down the center of the target). Begin a stopwatch and unpause the game. Record how long it takes to drill through the armor and destroy the ship and/or thruster.
Target: (requires a 20x custom spacer of 50m x 100m, everything else is standard default modules available to everyone).
Target userdesign:
Looking forward to seeing some amazing laser designs
Total cost comes down to the Laser + Laser's Radiator + Reactor and radiator required (using standardized value for reactor and supported radiator). Only the Laser and Laser's radiator will need to be designed for this challenge, delivery platform for the laser(s) can be anything and it's mass / cost is not included in the challenge (intercepting the stationary target from the same orbit takes less than .001 km/s delta-v so it can be safely ignored for this challenge).
To insure only the laser performance is measured (and not reactors) we will assume all reactors, and the reactor's radiator, will operate at 2900 watts / credit and 54 watts / gram so that varying reactor designs are not a factor in laser performance.
To test your design load into sandbox around the same orbital object as the target with your laser(s) and the target outside of interception range (restart if you spawn too close until a trajectory is required for intercept to insure spawning in at max range). Plot and intercept from a light burn so that the velocity difference is less than 30m/s on the tactical screen. If the velocity difference is greater than 30m/s restart and do a lighter burn (we want the target as stationary as possible to prevent the hole drilled from needing to be larger than normal, or on the inverse for intensities increasing by lasers closing distance). Turn on ignore max range on the laser(s), target the thruster on the target (to fire down the center of the target). Begin a stopwatch and unpause the game. Record how long it takes to drill through the armor and destroy the ship and/or thruster.
Target: (requires a 20x custom spacer of 50m x 100m, everything else is standard default modules available to everyone).
Target userdesign:
CraftBlueprint 2 test Copy
Modules
35 Crew Module 1 1.001 null 0
13.5 MW Thermoelectric Fission Reactor 1 1.7738 null 0
30x10 Silicon Carbide Radiator 1 13.105 13.5 MW Thermoelectric Fission Reactor 0
10x3 Silicon Nitride Radiator 1 30.677 35 Crew Module 0
24.3 km/s 6.42 MW Helium Gimballed Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster 1 0 null 0
50.0 m x 100 m Spacer 20 303.16 null 0
60.0 m Diameter 4.00 cm Radiation Shield 1 1.1942 null 0
250 t Helium Tank 1 0 null 0
60.0 m Diameter 4.00 cm Radiation Shield 1 1.3874 null 0
Armor
ArmorLayers
Osmium 0.25 0.1 0 1 1
Aramid Fiber 0.25 0.1 0 1 1
Tantalum Hafnium Carbide 0.25 0.1 0 1 1
Amorphous Carbon 0.25 0.1 0 1 1
Silica Aerogel 0.25 0.1 0 1 1
Looking forward to seeing some amazing laser designs
