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As players explore the world, new areas are procedurally generated, using a map seed specified by the player. A new game puts the player in the center of a voxel cube 62 thousand nodes across, so the player can travel 31 thousand nodes in any direction (sideways, up, or down) [ 13 ] before reaching the invisible wall at the end of the world.
A mass driver or electromagnetic catapult is a proposed method of non-rocket spacelaunch which would use a linear motor to accelerate and catapult payloads up to high speeds. Existing and proposed mass drivers use coils of wire energized by electricity to make electromagnets, though a rotary mass driver has also been proposed. [1]
Mindustry is a real-time strategy, factory management, and tower defense game developed and published by Anuken under the FOSS GNU General Public License v3. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is available for Windows , MacOS , Linux , Android and iOS , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] where it can be bought on platforms like Steam , [ 6 ] iOS App Store [ 7 ] or downloaded for free ...
A mass driver uses some sort of repulsion to keep a payload separated from the track or walls. Then it uses a linear motor (an alternating-current motor such as in a coil gun, or a homopolar motor as in a railgun) to accelerate the payload to high speeds. After leaving the launch track, the payload would be at its launch velocity.
In aerospace engineering, payload fraction is a common term used to characterize the efficiency of a particular design. The payload fraction is the quotient of the payload mass and the total vehicle mass at the start of its journey. It is a function of specific impulse, propellant mass fraction and the structural coefficient. In aircraft ...
Instead, a mass driver can be designed to handle a range of exhaust speeds, to allow mission planners to choose, long after the vehicle has been launched, choose whether any given delta-v maneuver is accomplished with a high-exhaust-velocity, high-energy, low-mass maneuver, or a low-exhaust-velocity, low-energy, high-mass maneuver, or some ...
Because a rocket must carry all of its reaction mass, most of the initially-expended reaction mass goes towards accelerating reaction mass rather than payload. If the rocket has a payload of mass P, the spacecraft needs to change its velocity by , and the rocket engine has exhaust velocity v e, then the reaction mass M which is needed can be ...
Constructed in 1976 and 1977, Mass Driver 1 was an early demonstration of the concept of the mass driver, a form of electromagnetic launcher, which in principle could also be configured as a rocket motor, using asteroidal materials for reaction mass and energized by solar or other electric power.