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#55 - SSTO Entry Engine

“Boss, you are truly a genius!”

“You were born to be our Boss, and you will surely lead us to find the origin of life!”

“Praise my Kerbal, walking is so fast now.”

Werner drove the demonstrator next to Tang Chao, constantly praising him.

With this demonstrator, he no longer had to worry about keeping up with the Boss's pace.

He had already decided that he would drive this mech during Tang Chao's stay.

As for the research team…

He could just build another one.

His machine was actually the second-generation demonstrator, and he would gain a lot of new insights every time he tested it, which was perfect for developing a new generation until it was finalized.

Tang Chao listened to Werner's flattery without any emotion, and even wanted to laugh a little.

He really wanted to laugh.

Now, whenever he saw this guy's appearance, he wanted to laugh.

Before, when he saw the little green men, their big heads, their walking postures, and their silly expressions, he laughed for a while at first, but it got much better later.

After all, this was the characteristic of the little green men.

Plus, their “height advantage” made them very short, and Tang Chao had to look down or squat down to see them clearly, which made him feel that they were a little cute.

But now it was different, the other party was as tall as him, and now he could turn his head and see a silly rectangular green face.

Before, he had to look down to see that their heads were cylindrical, but now that the two were the same height, he was looking at them at eye level.

Looking at a cylinder from a horizontal angle, isn't it just a rectangle?

And with a big grinning mouth, wide eyes, a flat head, glasses, and a mustache, it was hard not to find it funny.

Before, he could be called a “silly little cute”, but now that he's grown so big, he's really just a silly, and with the experimental mech he's driving, he's still a big-headed iron silly.

The kind of iron with physical properties.

“Clang clang~”

Listening to the sound of the mech's big feet hitting the ground, Tang Chao asked without turning his head: “By the way, Werner, do you think these types of body-enhancing machines can be sold? Would the little green men from other companies be interested?”

“Of course!”

Speaking of this, Werner was elated, waving his mechanical hand “whoosh whoosh”, “This mech is great, we couldn't walk fast at all before, and it was slow to deliver anything.”

“And we are weak, and can't move heavy things, every time there is something slightly larger, we have to drive to transport it, but there is only so much space in the assembly building, and every time a car comes in, it takes up a lot of space.”

“It's not just the size of the car, but in order to prevent accidents, there can be no people or objects near the car, and the speed of the car can't be fast either, so the efficiency is not high.”

“With this kind of mech, it's different, we can walk fast, even run fast, and with mechanical assistance, the load capacity is also large, and problems that used to require a small car can now be solved with a mech.”

“And although it is very tall, the actual footprint is not much larger than a Kerbal, so there is no need to specifically divide the work area, and it can move freely through the crowd.”

“You can even stride over the heads of other people, without wasting time turning corners!”

Just then, they walked next to a little green man, who quickly stopped and waved happily to greet them.

“Bleep~”

Tang Chao was the big BOSS, so he couldn't give the same greeting, so he just nodded as a response, and then walked past him.

Werner was much more direct, he had just said that he could save time by stepping over the heads of the little green men, and now a little green man was immediately delivered.

Could this be the will of the great universe, to let him show off in front of the BOSS?

Step!

Not stepping over would be a disservice to what he just said, and even more to the will of the great universe.

So he took a big step and stepped over the head of the little green man.

The little green man was stunned on the spot.

“???”

Tang Chao's mouth twitched at this scene, «What is all this?»

Speechless, he continued to walk forward, and Werner quickly followed excitedly.

After Tang Chao and Werner left, the little green man who had been stunned for a while… cheered.

Yes, they often cheered for no reason.

As for this time, perhaps it was because they saw a big Kerbal.

After all, you can see far when you stand high, and seeing far… is in line with the lifelong goal of Kerbals.

So they will be happy.

Probably.

He's not a little green man.

He walked and talked with Werner, Werner meant that this kind of mech was very useful in Kerbin, which could improve their work efficiency, and then go to the stars and the sea on a larger scale and better.

This is in line with the ultimate wish of the little green men, so they will definitely buy in large quantities.

In this way, their space center will have money, and with money, they can ask other companies to assist in some scientific research tasks.

There is strength in numbers, and he will soon be able to complete the technological upgrading of Kerbin's spaceflight, and then affect the development of Earth's space technology.

Now the only thing that is a pain in the ass is the Earth, his company hasn't even completed the factory design drawings yet, and when the construction team starts work, and then builds the factory, who knows when it will be.

Efficiency, efficiency!

Speaking of efficiency, he and Werner walked to the aircraft hangar, where a test machine for the orbital shuttle was being manufactured.

The shape of this test machine has changed slightly from the original design drawings, it is estimated that it was blown through the wind tunnel, and then the shape was adjusted slightly.

The wave-rider configuration plus the blended-wing-body delta wing, and it is not intended to carry cargo, so the overall is not as fat as the space shuttle, relatively thinner, more like a future spacecraft.

In fact, according to the level of the Earth, it is a future spacecraft, an SSTO aircraft.

Its color scheme is the classic white and black color scheme of spacecraft.

The underside of the fuselage is the black heat-insulating material with the best effect, which is more expensive, and the upper side of the fuselage is large pieces of white heat-insulating material, which is relatively cheaper.

Although it is only more than twenty meters long, slightly longer than a heavy fighter, its full weight after being filled with fuel can reach one hundred tons, which is several times the weight of a fighter.

Fortunately, its tail section is equipped with six “Dart” aerospike engines, which can provide nearly one hundred tons of thrust.

Speaking of this aerospike engine, it is really amazing, it seems to be born for single-stage-to-orbit rocket aircraft.

The aerospike engine in the Kerbal game belongs to the plug nozzle engine, also known as the air spike engine, which is a rocket engine structure that is different from the bell nozzle.

It is also divided into two types, linear aerospike and annular aerospike.

The linear type is arranged in a V-shape, with two rows of small nozzles arranged on both sides of the V, making the engine look like a rectangle as a whole.

The annular type is arranged in a conical shape, which can be regarded as the V-shape turned into a cone, and the nozzles surround the conical surface in a circle.

This is also the reason why they are called “air spike”, because they really have a spike, which is different from the large bell-shaped nozzle of ordinary engines.

Ordinary bell nozzles spray downwards, and the flame is very thick, while aerospike engines actually spray against the inclined surface, and the final flame is very thin.

As the rocket's flight altitude increases, the air pressure becomes lower and lower, and it can't hold back the flame, the flame of ordinary bells will become more and more scattered, and finally it will be like blooming, and the efficiency will be very low.

The flame of the aerospike engine is already very thin, so its flame diffusion is very small, at most it is like blooming halfway, and the condensed propulsion efficiency is still considerable.

This ability allows it to maintain high-efficiency output at various altitudes, without the need to replace it with a dedicated engine for different altitudes like a multi-stage rocket, so there is a section-by-section separation mode.

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