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Poodle engine should be hypergolic #38

Closed bigyihsuan closed 2 years ago

bigyihsuan commented 2 years ago

As an upper/orbital-stage engine meant for vacuum, the Poodle engine should be considered as a hyperbolic engine rather than as a kerolox engine as it is currently. This would then put it in line with the other stock/Restock vacuum upper/orbital stages, such as the Restock Pug, stock Terrier, and Making History Cheetah.

KommandantGalileo commented 2 years ago

it should be Hydrolox, its the RL10

bigyihsuan commented 2 years ago

it should be Hydrolox, its the RL10

Real Fuels (the stock-alike config) interestingly has the Poodle be able to do both Ae50/NTO and hydrolox: config here

CessnaSkyhawk commented 2 years ago

I'm just making it hypergolic for now (because I'm lazy and don't want to have to learn the calcs to convert its stats to an appropriate LH2 version), but will investigate adding two variants in the future. (iirc KTT did something like it) Also, technically, I believe the single bell variant is based on the Ariane 5's hypergolic upper stage anyways