RE-I5 "Skipper" Liquid Fuel Engine
| RE-I5 "Skipper" Liquid Fuel Engine | ||
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| Liquid fuel engine by Rockomax Conglomerate | ||
| Radial size | Large | |
| Cost | (total) | 5 300.00 
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| Mass | (total) | 3.000 t |
| Drag | 0.2 | |
| Max. Temp. | 2000 K | |
| Impact Tolerance | 8 m/s | |
| Research |  Heavy Rocketry
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| Unlock cost | 14 000
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| Since version | 0.20 | |
| Part configuration | skipperLiquidEngine_v2.cfg | |
| Maximum thrust | (1 atm) | 568.75 kN |
| (vacuum) | 650.00 kN | |
| Isp | (1 atm) | 280 s |
| (vacuum) | 320 s | |
| Fuel consumption | 41.43  /s
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| Thrust vectoring | 2 ° | |
| Electricity generated | 10.0 ⚡/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 | |
The Rockomax "Skipper" Liquid Engine is a 2.5m liquid fuel engine used to provide thrust for medium sized rockets and middle stages. It is typically fueled by large diameter rocket fuel tanks like the Rockomax X200-32 Fuel Tank and especially Rockomax Jumbo-64 Fuel Tank.
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Product description
| “ | The smaller sibling of the Mainsail, the Skipper's power rivals that of... large cities. Combining high thrust with reasonable efficiency, this engine excels when used as a mid-stage booster. — Rockomax Conglomerate |
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Usage
The Skipper is a large-diameter rocket engine which fills the gap between the RE-L10 "Poodle" Liquid Fuel Engine and the RE-M3 "Mainsail" Liquid Fuel Engine. It is about three times as powerful as the Poodle while in turn having a bit more than a third of the power of the Mainsail. Its fuel efficiency and mass are also in between these two; its Isp is higher than the Poodle and lower than the Mainsail at 1 atm, but lower than the Poodle and higher than the Mainsail in vacuum. This makes it a good engine for intermediate stages of heavy lift rockets.
Trivia
- After the revamp in 1.9, the Skipper was switched to a new config file. The old file can be found at Parts/Engine/liquidEngineSkipper/skipperLiquidEngine.cfg.
- While it previously offered inferior performance compared with clusters of LV-T30 "Reliant" Liquid Fuel Engine and LV-T45 "Swivel" Liquid Fuel Engine engines, this is no longer the case.
Changes
- New texture and variants
- Mass decreased from 4 to 3, cost increased from 850 to 2850, specific impulse increased from 300-350 to 320-370.
- Initial Release
