What torch-ship engine requires the least complex control system?
A side shot from my series on a computer-less future; see here, here, and here.
Project Rho defines a torch-drive as an engine with both high acceleration and high exhaust velocity. A torch-ship is a ship with a torch-drive and a specific power of 1 MW per kilogram or larger. The linked page has discussion of various types of torch-drives and others are available on Wikipedia.
Some torch-drive technologies (there are many more that meet the criteria):
- Nuclear pulse propulsion
- Gas core reactor rocket
- Nuclear Saltwater Rocket
- Fission fragment rocket
- Fusion rocket
Which torch-drive technology could be implemented in the near-future with the least complex (here defined as cost of design and production) control systems?
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