Grand Nuclear Space Cruiser
(space needle)

We often read the remark that spaceships need no hull; that turning requires no banking ... awful silliness, as banking into a turn is always more comfortable to passengers; and the hull of a fast spaceship must be sleek as a hypersonic jet, to ward-off whippled dust vapor at galactic speeds.

fleet of twelve - for monthly reports to Earth, from ships on yearly transits among the solar system objects {planets, moons, 'dis-asteroids' rings and Earth-iso-orbit moonlets, comets, space university research laboratories, stations, telemetry platform maintenance, other GNSC, other space craft, emergency rescues}
'space-needle-ship' requirements specification
- minimum cross-section to dense-zone dust {cometary clouds} - least possible contact quantity, reducing total impact damages
- minimum contact rebound of dust-strike - low sine-angle 'steep' rake reduces total energy consumption in penetrating dust zones
- minimium contact velocity of dust-strikes - low sine-angle 'steep' rake reduces perpendicular impact velocity to minimize structural superface impingement defects
- maximum contact smear-spread of dust-strikes - low sine-angle 'steep' rake quickly sweeps impacting dust along the length of the structural superface, melting dust by friction heat, and spreading the melt across the largest area (a long length), minimizing localized point-heating, and accreting possible useful mass
- maximum electro-accelerator length
- useful low sine-angle rake approximately limited to ratio of cometary:GNSC velocities
GNSC general requirements specification
- nuclear power 'web' - supercritical net of subcritical nodes; neutron conduits
- clean nuclear fuels: Bi-209 100% (n, α), Re-187 63% (n, α, β), W-183 14.3% (n, α), Sm-147+149 15%+13% (n, α), Nd-144 23.8% (n, α), Zr-96 2.8% (2 β^-), Ni-58 68% (2 EC), Be-10 100% reactor-made (β^- 0.56MeV), ...
- nuclear authority - plutonium 'weapons' for removal of space hazards, moon-gouge-mining, 'reactors' for remote power generators [eg. moon-rail-launchers]
- self-sufficient, typical four year minimum service, space-qualified personnel,
- [small] city-size population [3500 personnel] - can remote and re-seed Earth mankind population, in case of cosmic emergency {nearby supernova, comet-hoard, dinosaur-invasion, nuclear holocaust, meteorological calamity, communist insurrection, military coup}
GNSC general designs specification/suggestion
- boron-carbide 'BC' for minimum weight, [nonavalanching 'metal' conductivity], [rebonding], nitrogen/oxygen passivation,
Fleet Base
- As the USA declined to implement one place of fortification under the ABM Treaty, Lanthus shall accession it, under the treaty, to the location of the GNSC outfitting facility.

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Grand Nuclear Space Cruiser (space needle)

Grand-Admiral Petry 'Majestic Service in a Solar System' Nuclear Emergency Management

Grand Nuclear Space Cruiser
(space needle)

Grand-Admiral Petry
'Majestic Service in a Solar System'
Nuclear Emergency Management