Please double check my design- I may have boffed the numbers.
Urist glowed as he put the framed Spear blueprints on his office wall. They were truly a work of art!
On a more serious note, he finally had a rocket capable of fulfilling the last wish of the founder, Hugh DeWard. A ceremony was planned to coincide with the launch of the Spear Mk I. The urn containing his ashes had been placed in the open space of the rocket, which would then travel to low Earth orbit, fulfilling his wish to travel to space. This would give him the honor of being the first man in space- if posthumously.
That planned, he turned to work on his next design. The life support module had horrible requirements, but with improvements to fuel and some weight reduction, he may be able to get it into space. Facility expansion was required.
Research:
Continue to improve our rocket fuel to increase our thrust.
Life Support Module: Make that elephant lighter.
Two-Stage Hull: Let's get something that can launch said elephant.
Designs:
[Personal Design]
The Sword Mk I
Height: 7m
Weight: 1375kg
Available Payload: 125kg
Thrust: 1500kg to LEO (105%)
Components:
Single stage hull (7 meter): 75*10-> 525kg
Small thruster (1 meter): 100kg, 1500kg To LEO
Normal fuel tanks x6 (6 meter): 750kg
Building:
Upgrade the factory to the next level.
Other:
Put the ashes of the company founder in that empty spot of the Spear, and ceremoniously launch it into space.
Total expenses:
8k (3x 1k for research, 5k for building)