![]() ![]() The lee helmsman is almost always an engineer, unless the first officer is really stupid. Engineer The engineer's main job is to look after the engine, duh. In between maneuvers the pilots play a lot of solitaire and surf Facebook. If the thrust controls are too darn complicated then the pilot job will be split into two jobs: helmsman handles the attitude controls and lee helmsman handles the thrust controls. #Lord of rigel missile plus#The pilot uses attitude controls and the attitude display to point the ship's nose (and make darn sure it stays pointed the right way), plus thrust controls, chronometer, and delta V display to start the burn at the right time and keep it burning long enough for the required delta V. Maneuvers have three parts: direction to point the ship's nose, how much delta V to burn, and exact time to do it. Pilot The astrogator will be occasionally feeding to the pilot a maneuver to be done. If the ship drifts out of the groove, the astrogator will calculate a special maneuver called a "mid-course correction" to get the blasted ship back on track, and feeds it to the pilot. During the trip the astrogator watches the ship's position and vector like a hawk, since starving to death after you've eaten all your crewmates is such a nasty way to die. Once the trip is chosen, the astrogator breaks it down into " maneuvers" and feeds them to the pilot. Or discover there ain't no acceptable trip so it's time for a captain-astrogator conference. From that the cap'n can chose the trip with the best possible combination of launch date, arrival date, and delta V cost. When the destination is ordered, the astrogator will draw a pork-chop plot for the cap'n. Once en route, the astrogator keeps a sharp eye to make sure the blasted ship stays on course, giving the pilot mid-course corrections if need be. Astrogator The captain tells the astrogator where the ship has to go, the astrogator's job is to figure out how. The first officer's job is things inside the ship, mostly crackin' the whip to make sure the crew does their jobs.īut the first officer also has to draft the " watchbill", make sure the blasted ship is adequately stocked with life support and other supplies so you don't all suffocate or starve to death, keep an eyeball on those lazy engineers to make sure they are keeping up with maintenance and repairs, ensure that the vacuum moonshine 'still on Z deck (that you officially don't know about) is making just enough space booze to stave off boredom but not enough to endanger the ship, and otherwise keep up the beatings until the morale improves. Such as "fly to Deimos and load a cargo of water-ice" or "fly to Mars and drop bombs on those accurséd Arean Independence Revolutionaries." First Officer The captain's right-hand person. ![]() ![]() The captain's job is things outside of the ship, mostly where the ship is going and whatsit gonna do when it gets there. If the skipper of a Cosmi-Hauler Incorporated cargo ship fails to deliver the cargo on time the corporation will fire the captain's sorry behind. What kinda jobs are we lookin' at here? Well: Captain They are the absolute ruler of the spacecraft, their word is law.īut don't get the wrong idea, captains often have a boss as well. There are lots of critical jobs (or "hats") on a spacecraft, the more hats a given crewperson wears the lower will be their job performance. If your ship is bigger than a space taxi you gotta have more than one crewperson. Initial Operational Capability: 1953.Alright, space cadets! This is the way it is. The Regulus II, which began development two months before Rigel was cancelled, was supersonic using proven turbojet technology, and equipped with autonomous inertial navigation.ĭevelopment Cost $: 38.000 million in 1948 dollars. A CEP of 550 m was planned using a modified LORAN guidance system, requiring two submarines with radio beacons to be deployed along the missile's path. Production missiles would have been equipped with two wingtip-mounted Marquardt 71 cm (28 in) ramjets and four solid rocket boosters. ![]() After repeated test launch failures, and success of the less ambitious Regulus subsonic cruise missile, Rigel was cancelled in August 1953. Flights of twin-ramjet test vehicles began in May 1950. Work began with simple single-ramjet test vehicles. The aim was to produce a solid-rocket boosted, twin-ramjet powered, ship-launched supersonic cruise missile to attack shore targets at a range of 930 km (500 nm). Home - Search - Browse - Alphabetic Index: 0- 1- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9Ī- B- C- D- E- F- G- H- I- J- K- L- M- N- O- P- Q- R- S- T- U- V- W- X- Y- ZĪmerican Navy pioneering cruise missile project. ![]()
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