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Uchusen Rockets宇宙船

Rockets drawn from sourced sizes: line drawings and painted 3D views you drop into a page, take apart and turn round, and a typed model that checks whether a rocket really goes together.

Uchusen is the Japanese word 宇宙船 for spaceship. About the name

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Reference · Rockets, variants, parts and the fit check

explodedfunction

The exploded assembly of a ship: every module moved apart along the spine by gap metres so none touches, with its name and its mounting points (the centre of each collar's face and each port) in the exploded positions. Modules hung beside the spine move out along their own direction.

Import it

import { exploded } from "@johnmorrisdotca/uchusen-rockets";

Definition

function exploded(ship: ShipList, gap?: number): ExplodedModule[]

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
shipShipList

The ship's list.

gap (optional)number | undefined

The gap between modules, in metres. Left out: a tenth of the ship's length, at most 20.

Returns

ExplodedModule[]

One entry for each module, bottom first.

Examples

import { exploded, SAMPLE_SHIPS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/uchusen-rockets";

for (const one of exploded(SAMPLE_SHIPS.scout)) console.log(one.name, one.mounts.length);
Fusion engine cluster, 3 1
Cryogenic fuel tank, 12 m 2
Fusion reactor module 2
Adapter L to M 2
Header tank, 9 m 2
Habitat ring, 16 m 2
Mission pod, medical and rescue 2
Laboratory module 2
Radiator array, deployed 2
Navigation deck 2
Sensor mast 1

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/uchusen-rockets 0.14.0.