LV-TX87 "Bobcat" Liquid Fuel Engine

LV-TX87 "Bobcat" Liquid Fuel Engine
Liquid fuel engine by Jebediah Kerman's Junkyard and Spacecraft Parts Co
Radial size		Medium, Radial mounted
Cost	(total)	2 000.00
Mass	(total)	2.000 t
Drag		0.3-0.2
Max. Temp.		2000 K
Impact Tolerance		12 m/s
Research		Heavy Rocketry
Unlock cost		8 000
Since version		1.4.1
Part configuration		LiquidEngineLV-TX87.cfg
Maximum thrust	(1 atm)	374.19 kN
	(vacuum)	400.00 kN
Isp	(1 atm)	290 s
	(vacuum)	310 s
Fuel consumption		26.32 /s
Thrust vectoring		5 °
Electricity generated		8.0 ⚡/s
Testing Environments
On the surface		Yes
In the ocean		Yes
On the launchpad		Yes
In the atmosphere		Yes
Sub-orbital		Yes
In an orbit		Yes
On an escape		Yes
Docked		No
Test by staging		Yes
Manually testable		Yes

Usage

Similar to the real life comparison LR-87 engine, the LV-TX87 "Bobcat" Liquid Fuel Engine is best used as a first stage engine. If playing Career or Science mode, it offers the highest sea level specific impulse when reaching heavy rocketry in the tech tree. Therefore, it should be highly considered when building medium sized vehicles.

Unlike the double bell version of the RE-L10 "Poodle" Liquid Fuel Engine, the two engine bells can gimbal separately, allowing the engine to provide roll control. Additionally, the gimbal statistics can be toggled separately using tweakables.

Product description

“

Meow! One of these engines gives more than enough thrust to jump as high as the sky, so we gave you two. — Jebediah Kerman's Junkyard and Spacecraft Parts Co

”

Variants

As of version 1.4.1 this engine has two models that can be switched in the editor.

The different variants of the engine

Trivia

Real-world comparison

The LV-TX87 was inspired by the American LR-87 engine used on the Titan rockets.

Changes

1.6

• Moved tech from Heavier Rocketry to Heavy Rocketry
• Increased unlock cost from 6000 to 8000
• Increased crash tolerance from 6 to 12
• Increased EC generation from 3 to 8

1.4.5

• Added ModuleTestSubject

1.4.1

• Initial Release