Creative director Nate Simpson characterized the process as a mothership concept-building multiple vessels and attaching them to a larger superproject. It'll require building massive starships in orbital drydocks, with the assistance of resources from space colonies (more on that below). Interstellar travel will involve more than just slapping a bunch of high-tech rocketry onto your shuttles. Intercept Games is incorporating a suite of future-facing speculative propulsion technology that will allow you Kerbals to venture across the void between star systems. With mechanics arriving later in KSP2's early access development, you'll be able to leave the Kerbol System for distant stars with the addition of interstellar travel. In Kerbal Space Program 2, you'll be able to travel even farther into the final frontier. Changed cost (5900 -> 16400), reduced Isp from 320-360 s to 290-340 s, changed description.Kerbal Space Program 2 will feature interstellar travel.The LFB KR-1x2 seems to be an uprated version of the single engine the KE-1 Mastodon engine from the making history DLC given the resemblance between the two.The names "KR-1x2", "Twin-Boar", and the part description all imply the existence of an LFB KR-1 "Boar" Liquid Fuel Engine.The Pyrios boosters would have included an uprated version of the F1 rocket engine used on the Saturn V. The name LFB KR-1x2 is a reference to one of the Advanced Boosters for the Space Launch System Block 2, a component called the Pyrios boosters that was part of the SLS advanced boosters competition for NASA hosted back in 2013.Even in the case of a bad landing which results in partial disintegration of the rest of the stage, the integrated fuel tank is always recovered, so the recovery percentage in case of a crash landing is higher than for other engines. It has a high impact tolerance of 20m/s, and being very tall makes it extremely buoyant in case of a splashdown. It is also the best engine in the game for first stage recovery. This makes it an excellent and cost-effective mid-game launcher for larger payloads. The Twin-Boar also has highest thrust to weight ratio of any liquid fuel engine in the game and the second highest thrust to cost ratio, second only to the LV-T30 "Reliant" Liquid Fuel Engine. It's similar to a pair of lower-efficiency Vectors. Once the weight and cost of the fuel + tankage is subtracted out, it weighs almost the same as a Mainsail, but has 33% more thrust while actually being 13% cheaper. The Twin-Boar is an unusually good engine. It also comes at quite a literal cost as well. All that self-contained goodness comes at the cost of not having a mounting point for its underside, and not being quite as efficient as dedicated engines. Instead of relying on single engines or solid rocket boosters, the KR-1x2 employs two modified KR-1 engines, fed by a built-in fuel system, as the source of its immense lifting power. This liquid fuel booster system is a very purposeful piece of engineering. The Twin-Boar is the only part that is simultaneously a liquid fuel tank and engine. However, its I sp is slightly (5-10 s) lower than that of the Mainsail at all altitudes. The thrust is higher than the Rockomax "Mainsail" Liquid Engine and is thus the most powerful large-sized engine. It contains the same amount of fuel as the Rockomax Jumbo-64 Fuel Tank (2880). It also does not allow any parts to be attached below it. This booster contains two engines at the bottom which are added radially, so the base of the booster is wider than a usual large tank. In addition, the liquid fuel booster can be run longer by adding additional rocket fuel tanks, which the Twin-Boar will draw from. The minimum thrust level required for this booster to lift its own weight is 17.5%. Like all liquid fuel engines, the Twin-Boar is throttleable, both by the main throttle and a thrust limiter tweakable. The LFB KR-1x2 "Twin-Boar" Liquid Fuel Engine is a liquid fuel engine with a built-in liquid fuel tank.
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