Starship Manifest

Heavy Industrial Platform

Prefab automated heavy industrial and mining platform. Something to convert a comet to a space station and mine all the fuel this ship would need to get home.
2000 tons? Its a guess.

Vac craft.

Sort of like the eagle space ships in 'Space 1999' but bigger. Say big enough to carry a one or two of 18 wheelers. Can land and take off from a full G moon. Ships are modular so they can be taken apart and rebuilt as heavy tugs or whatever. (Say for delivery of orbital bases to final orbits.) This would also allow them to be stored more compactly in the ship. (You ever see a C-5A/747 class cargo aircraft?)

Drive systems would be Busard fusion reactors heating water as reaction mass. (See my web pages for a discussion of this.)

Aerodynamic landers

Built like a huge lifting body (waverider or Aroura shape), Top down the hull would look parabolic to diamond shaped. Side view would be more diamond shaped. Craft would use similar engines to the Vac craft, but for supersonic/hypersonic travel inside an atmosphere (of whatever composition) it would directly heat the atmosphere behind the craft inside the shock wave for propulsion. This way it can carry more and has unlimited range in atmosphere.

These do the light shuttling around and supply runs to the ground exploration teams. They can also work in vacuum operations, and have 100 ton cargo capacity. Self protection armament of two independent self targeting 30mm solenoid gun turrets (retractable)

Orbital recon Platforms

Big optical, electromagnetic, and radar sats. Say a 8 meter adaptive optic main mirror. About the same sized Radar antenna. They are not self propelled, but can be repositioned by vac skiffs.

Aerial Recon long endurance drone

These are recoverable and allow low altitude photo recon and chemical analysis. Of course they have to be customized for the atmosphere they need to fly in, but you can cover a lot of territory with these guys. (We are trying to explore an entire star system!)

Ground Drones

Basic long endurance drone crawler with cameras, sample scoops, and deployable legs and arms to get over rough ground and get itself unstuck.

Heavy Rover [pressurized]

Heavy rovers travel in packs and can act as a mobile base. Rovers can be linked together as segmented trains, and docked to form temporary bases. Each heavy rover or rover trailer are about the size of a short, very wide greyhound bus. They can operate in normal air pressure to hard vac. Can float and self propel in normal water. They look like a very large Armored personnel carrier. Self protection armament of two independent self targeting 30mm solenoid gun turrets. They can operate in normal air pressure to hard vac. Can float and self propel in normal water. Self protection armament of one self targeting 30mm solenoid gun turret.

Exploration Equipment Manifest

Vacuum landers	200 tons each	4,000 tons	20 vac craft included
Aero landers	200 tons each	2,000 tons	10 aero landers included
Orbital Reconnaissance Satellites	2 tons each	80 tons	Set of 40
Long endurance Aerial reconnaissance drones	5 tons each	200 tons	Set of 40
Drone rovers	2 tons each	120 tons	Set of 60
Heavy Manned rovers (crew of 5)	30 tons each	900 tons	Set of 30
Heavy Engineering /mining equipment		2,000 tons
Total		9,300 tons