Here is the finished project build of a derelict deep space exploration ship.
BACKSTORY
NAME: E.S SURVEYOR.
CLASS: SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION.
BUILT: 2089 LUNAR ORBIT ASSEMBLY YARD.
COMMISION DATE: 2096 WITH TRIALS AND SHAKEDOWN OVER TWO YEARS.
MISSION DATE: COMMENCED 2098.
CREW: 1700 ENLISTED INCLUDING SCIENTISTS/300 OFFICERS.
ENGINE: ONE COLD FUSION TY-89 PRODUCING 2,500,000 LBSF USING A SLOW REACTIVE BURN EMISSION SYSTEM TO GENERATE THE PUSH AND MAINTAIN SPEED. FRONT BRAKING ENGINES USING CHANNELLED EMISSIONS FROM THE SAME ENGINE. VARIOUS RCS DOTTED AROUND PORT AND STARBOARD.
MISSION: TO LEAVE LUNAR ORBIT AND HEAD OUT ON A 30 YEAR PLAN TO INNER AND OUTER PLANETS COLLECT DATA AND TO LAND SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT AND PERSONAL TO CERTAIN PLANETS.
FATE: CONTACT LOST AFTER 16 YEARS, LAST KNOWN POSITION NEAR JUPITER STATION 5 RELAY SATELLITE-NO VISUALS OR SIGNALS-PRESUMED LOST.
This is all scratch made from plastic and old model kit bits.
Si
BACKSTORY
NAME: E.S SURVEYOR.
CLASS: SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION.
BUILT: 2089 LUNAR ORBIT ASSEMBLY YARD.
COMMISION DATE: 2096 WITH TRIALS AND SHAKEDOWN OVER TWO YEARS.
MISSION DATE: COMMENCED 2098.
CREW: 1700 ENLISTED INCLUDING SCIENTISTS/300 OFFICERS.
ENGINE: ONE COLD FUSION TY-89 PRODUCING 2,500,000 LBSF USING A SLOW REACTIVE BURN EMISSION SYSTEM TO GENERATE THE PUSH AND MAINTAIN SPEED. FRONT BRAKING ENGINES USING CHANNELLED EMISSIONS FROM THE SAME ENGINE. VARIOUS RCS DOTTED AROUND PORT AND STARBOARD.
MISSION: TO LEAVE LUNAR ORBIT AND HEAD OUT ON A 30 YEAR PLAN TO INNER AND OUTER PLANETS COLLECT DATA AND TO LAND SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT AND PERSONAL TO CERTAIN PLANETS.
FATE: CONTACT LOST AFTER 16 YEARS, LAST KNOWN POSITION NEAR JUPITER STATION 5 RELAY SATELLITE-NO VISUALS OR SIGNALS-PRESUMED LOST.
This is all scratch made from plastic and old model kit bits.
Si
................Jim
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