Space · Item
Interplanetary drive
The fusion drive that takes a station to the planets: it heats methane with a little helium-3, no oxygen needed.
In the game
How to get it
Craft it: 8 copper coils, 2 heat-shield tiles, 8 superalloy ingots, a combustion chamber, 2 turbopumps and a flight computer. Place it anywhere aboard your ship (one a ship).
What it is for
Without it the ship stays between the Earth and the Moon; with it the navigation table reaches every body. It holds 24 m³ of fuel of its own.
Why it exists
Chemical engines are too weak for the planets: the drive is the ship's great leap.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
On the progress path
SY1The Solar SystemMain path
One of the items of the step Interplanetary ship.
- This stepSY1 · Interplanetary ship
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