RE-I5 "Skipper" Liquid Fuel Engine

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RE-I5 "Skipper" Liquid Fuel Engine
Part image
Liquid fuel engine by
Rockomax Conglomerate

Radial size Large
Cost (total) 5 300.00 Funds
Mass (total) 3.000 t
Drag 0.2
Max. Temp. 2000 K
Impact Tolerance 8 m/s
Research Tech tree heavy rocketry.png Heavy Rocketry
Unlock cost 14 000 Funds
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 Units of fuel/s
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.

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

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

Changes

1.9
  • New texture and variants
0.24
  • Mass decreased from 4 to 3, cost increased from 850 to 2850, specific impulse increased from 300-350 to 320-370.
0.20
  • Initial Release