PB-X50R Xenon Container

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PB-X50R Xenon Container
Part image
Xenon gas tank by
Found lying by the side of the road

Radial size Radial mounted
Cost (total) 2 220.00 Funds
(dry) 600.00 Funds
Mass (total) 0.05400 t
(dry) 0.01350 t
Drag 0.2
Max. Temp. 2000 K
Volume  ?
Impact Tolerance 12 m/s
Research Ion propulsion.png Ion Propulsion
Unlock cost 7 800 Funds
Since version 0.21
Part configuration xenonTankRadial.cfg
Xenon gas 405 Xenon unit

The PB-X50R Xenon Container is a radially attachable xenon gas tank for the IX-6315 "Dawn" Electric Propulsion System that contains 405 units of xenon. The part was added in version 0.21 of KSP.

Product description

The X50R is a small-volume Xenon container, heralded by engineers for being ideally suited for small ion-driven spacecraft, and also for having thoroughly disproved management in their notion that a smaller fuel tank would make the fuel cheaper.

Unknown

Trivia

  • The PB-X150 Xenon Container by Probodobodyne Inc (introduced in version 0.18) is very similarly named but the PB-X50R is listed as "Found lying by the side of the road" rather than manufactured by Probodobodyne.
  • This part was originally from a mod called KSPX. The developer of KSPX eventually joined Squad and the KSP dev team and many parts from KSPX are now included in the stock game.

Changes

1.4
  • Decreased tech cost from 9600 to 7800
  • Increased cost from 2200 to 2220
  • Decreased mass from 0.03143 to 0.0135
  • Xenon supply increased from 400 to 405
0.25
  • Moved to Propulsion from Utility.
0.21
  • Initial release