USV Endeavor
Horizon-Class Starship | |
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The U.S.V. Endeavor in orbit of Urth | |
Type | Starship |
Place of origin | Emberwood Coast |
Service history | |
In service | 2016-present |
Used by | ECSEA Pilots |
Wars | n/a |
Production history | |
Designed | 2010 |
Manufacturer | ECSEA |
Unit cost | 645.50 billion cr |
Number built | 1 |
Variants | n/a |
Specifications | |
Weight | 2,392 tonnes |
Length | 131.7 m |
Width | 44.5 m |
Height | 28.75 m |
Crew | 8-24 |
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Engine |
Plasma Accelerator Turbines, Inertial Fusion Engines 2,150,000 kg |
Fuel capacity | 1,350.25 tonnes |
Operational range |
undetermined |
Speed | 12000 km/h (.15 km/s/s) |
The U.S.V. Endeavor is a Horizon-Class non-atmospheric starship developed by Emberwood Coast for use in exploratory missions around and beyond Urth.
Contents
Systems
All of the Endeavor's systems are the most advanced available to the ESCEA, and manufactured as precisely as possible. The ship should be in operation for a long time.
Communications
Sensors
Habitation
Engines
Main Engines
Horizon-Class Starships are designed to carry two fusion engines each, equipped with fuel for approximately seventy hours of thrust at full power. The engines work on miniaturized Inertial Confinement Fusion reactors, using lasers to ignite pellets of He3 fuel, which fuses and is ejected backwards from the engine as exhaust in a thin stream. The resulting output can be magnetically accelerated for additional thrust, if needed.
Secondary Engines
The ship also employs nuclear pile engines. The ship's experimental Magnetic Confinement Reactor generates enormous amounts of heat, which is transferred with superconductors to standard rocket motors. There the energy is used to heat fluid to extreme temperatures, and is then propelled out the back of the ship, generating thrust.
While the ICF engines generate radiation that is harmful to living tissue, the ship's thermal engines are safe for use within the influence of another manned ship.