Posted by: skoormit
« on: May 06, 2020, 06:43:46 AM »Black,
Many Thanks for putting me right.
How big would a Tug have to be to move that 51,000 ton Orbital Mining Platform ? For me there would be in game time constraints in building a Shipyard large enough for the Tug and working out what engines I would need to provide the moving power / Fuel allowances etc.
I am only using the basic Nuclear Thermal powered Engines at present.
DavidR
FWIW, my orbital mining stations are ~255kt, and my tugs are ~65kt.
Since the station weighs about 4x the tug, the speed of a tug when towing a station is about 1/5 the unladen speed.
It takes many years to expand the shipyard enough to build the first tug, but I start that process well before I have the tech to build them.