Guide talk:DY sublight series

Roster

Heavy Launch Vehicle

DY-T (1989)

Heavy Launch Vehicle

• carries fuel or other cargo
• must be large enough to carry a single DY-B1/B2

Transports

DY-50 (1989)

Experimental Transport

• No DY containers
• 1 circular airlock for 2-person transfer capsule (on dorsal of tower)
• escape capsule on aft-side of tower
• both the mock shuttlebay (ventral) and the rudimentary cargo area (dorsal) have identical clamshell doors
• gantry connector between "cargo" mid-section and engineering/booster section
• detailed launch booster is shown below
• credit to DA jbobroony for visual inspiration

DY-100 (1990)

Transport (early version)

• Ortho1: unloaded view
• Ortho2: 5 containers (fwd position, ventral on up)
• Ortho3: 10 containers (5 fwd, 5 aft)
• Ortho4: all 16 containers
  
• bow needs to "open" to auxiliary storage of (smaller) landing craft (asteroids & lunar capability)

DY-110 Apex (1991)

• only carries a maximum of 5 container pods
• increased structure/mass on dorsal and aft of pods
• must be launched by the DY-A2 (4-rocket cluster)
• launches with the (typical) DY-B2 fission module

DY-100B (1994)

• same as earlier DY, but now has the DY-B2 attached on ground
• launches with the DY-A3 (6-rocket cluster)

DY-120 'Brenton' (2021)

• militarized version of the commercial DY-120
• additional fuel tanks are for faster accelerations/decelerations
• weapons package TBD

DY-130 (2037)

• civilian commercial vessel that is produced to only 6 units and canceled
• these hulls later (2042) militarized into the DY-135 'Black Mamba' (below)

DY-140 'Helsinki' (2039)

• pictured above is the civilian version
• the militarized variant should be very similar
• weapons package TBD

DY-135 'Black Mamba' (2042)

• weapons package TBD

Auxiliaries

• landing craft reminiscent of lunar module, capable of lunar landings (must fit within bow shroud)
• landing craft for asteroid mining (must fit within bow shroud)
• lunar landing tug, must fit within length dimensions of cargo pod; can carry 4 of the pods itself to the surface

Launch Boosters

DY-A1 (1990)

• early launch system for DY-100s
• tri-boosters (as depicted)
• maybe has atmospheric fairings that are shed in orbit?
• no radiators please

DY-A2 (1991)

• cluster of 4 rockets
• used to launch DY-100s and DY-110s
• jettisoned in orbit, to be replaced by by DY-B series

DY-A3 (1994)

• Ortho3: 6x cluster; attached to DY-100 (as in above image)

Interplanetary Boosters

DY-B1 (1990)

• Ortho1: Single booster diagram (like above)
• Ortho2: Paired boosters attached to DY-100, as for cislunar flight

DY-B2 (1991)

• originally transported aboard DY-T HVT for orbital attachment
• definitely needs radiators (for the fission reactors)
• later (1994), attached to spacecraft on ground, to be launched by DY-A3

DY-B3 (2009)

• minor progression of the DY-B2

DY-B4 (2017)

• minor progression of the DY-B3

DY-B5 (2025)

• progression of the DY-B4