1000 ktons

900 ktons 10 weeks

800 ktons
9 weeks
700 ktons Brachistochrone Transit Time Nomogram v03a (60 days) 2 months
600 ktons Lay straightedge between Engine Type and Ship Mass. 8 weeks
500 ktons Read ship acceleration where edge crosses Acceleration scale.
Supertanker
Lay edge between acceleration and Destination Distance. 7 weeks
400 ktons
Read transit time where edge crosses Transit Time scale.
Read the ship's deltaV requirements on the Total DeltaV Required scale. 6 weeks
300 ktons
Transit time is for a constant boost brachistochrone 5 weeks
200 ktons trajectory with a turnover at midpoint. If the ship's total
deltaV capacity is less than the transit's deltaV requirements, (30 days) 1 month
obviously the ship is incapable of this particular brachistochrone. 4 weeks

accel = thrust / mass

100 ktons
90 ktons accel = distance / (time/2)^2
80 ktons accel = (deltaV/2)^2 / distance 3 weeks
10 kAU
90 ktons/Naval aircraft carrier
60 ktons 100 GN
Winchell Chung
2 Gm/s 5 kAU
50 ktons Nyrath the Nearly Wise
50 GN http://www.ProjectRho.com/rocket/index.html
40 ktons/Naval battleship 40 GN
30 GN 2 weeks
1 Gm/s
30 ktons 13 days
20 GN 12 days
1 kAU Sun-Sedna aphelion
500 Mm/s 11 days
20 ktons 10 GN
400 Mm/s 10 days
500 AU
300 Mm/s 9 days
Oscar-II submarine/RMS Queen Mary II 5 GN
4 GN 8 days
3 GN 200 Mm/s
10 ktons
9 ktons/Naval cruiser 2 GN (1 week) 7 days
8 ktons 200 m/s^2 20g 100 AU Sun-Xena aphelion, heliosphere edge
7 ktons/Naval destroyer/Virginia submarine 100 Mm/s
1 GN
Sun-Sedna perihelion 6 days
6 ktons 15g
50 AU end of Kuiper belt (Kuiper Cliff)
Sun-Quaoar
5 ktons Sun-Pluto, Xena perihelion
500 MN 50 Mm/s 5 days
Sun-Neptune/start of Kuiper belt
4 ktons 400 MN 100 m/s^2 10g 40 Mm/s
300 MN 9g Sun-Uranus
8g 30 Mm/s
3 ktons/Saturn-V 200 MN Sun-Chiron 4 days
7g
20 Mm/s 10 AU Sun-Saturn
Skate submarine 6g
2 ktons 100 MN IC-Fusion MAX 50 m/s^2 5g
5 AU Sun-Jupiter 3 days
40 m/s^2 4g 10 Mm/s
Space Shuttle Stack 50 MN end of asteroid belt
40 MN Sun-Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Eugenia, Siwa, Kleopatra
30 m/s^2 3g Sun-Vesta
start of asteroid belt
30 MN Sun-Icarus aphelion
Sun-Eros aphelion
1 ktons 2.5g 5 Mm/s Sun-Mars
900 tons 20 MN Jupiter Liftoff
He3-D Fusion/AM-Plasma 4 Mm/s Sun-Eros perihelion
800 tons 20 m/s^2 2g 1.0 AU Sun-Earth
NSWR MAX 3 Mm/s 2 days
700 tons Sun-Venus
Proton 8K82K 10 MN AM-Beam MAX
ORION MAX 1.5g
NTR-SOLID MAX 2 Mm/s 0.5 AU
500 tons
DC-Y Delta Clipper Sun-Mercury
5 MN Neptune Liftoff
400 tons 4 MN 10 m/s^2 1g Earth Liftoff
C-5A Galaxy (fully loaded) 3 MN NTR-GAS MAX Venus/Saturn 1 Mm/s Sun-Icarus perihelion
300 tons 2 MN 0.75g
(14.9 GM) 0.1 AU
500 km/s
200 tons/Phoenix SSTO 1 MN 5 m/s^2 0.5g 10 Gm
Boeing 747/Int'l Space Station 400 km/s (1 day) 24 hours
4 m/s^2 300 km/s
500 kN Mercury/Mars 5 Gm 21 hours
NTR-GAS Closed/AM-Solid
400 kN 3 m/s^2 Saturn-Iapetus
300 kN 200 km/s
100 tons/Space Shuttle Orbiter 18 hours
NTR-SOLID PBed 0.25g
90 tons 200 kN LANTR (LOX mode) Jupiter-Callisto
80 tons
Skylab 2 m/s^2
70 tons Io Liftoff 100 km/s Saturn-Titan 15 hours
100 kN D-T Fusion Luna Liftoff 1 Gm Jupiter-Ganymede
60 tons/Trident II ICBM Ganymede Liftoff
50 tons LANTR (Nerva mode)
H-B Fusion/AM-Plasma(H2O) Europa/Titan
Callisto Liftoff 50 km/s L4-L5/Jupiter-Europa
50 kN MC-Fusion MAX/AM-Plasma(H2) 500 Mm Saturn-Rhea 12 hours
40 tons 40 kN 1 m/s^2 40 km/s Jupiter-Io 11 hours
0.1g Earth-Luna, L3, L4, L5
30 kN 30 km/s
Minuteman ICBM/Apollo CSM/F-22 Raptor Triton Liftoff 10 hours
30 tons 20 kN Mass Driver/MPD 0.075g
20 km/s 9 hours
Laser Thermal Pluto Liftoff
20 tons 10 kN 0.5 m/s^2 0.05g 100 Mm 8 hours
Colloid Electrostatic
0.4 m/s^2 10 km/s 7 hours
Acceleration (meters per second per second)

5 kN J x B Electric 50 Mm
Engine Type (thrust in Newtons)

4 kN Solar Moth
0.3 m/s^2 Earth surface-Geosynchchronous Orbit 6 hours
3 kN Ceres Liftoff
10 tons Monatomic-H MITEE 0.025g 5 km/s
9 tons 2 kN 4 km/s
8 tons Hybrid Electro-Thermal MITEE 0.2 m/s^2 5 hours
7 tons 3 km/s
6 tons 1 kN ArcJet 10 Mm
2 km/s 4 hours
5 tons
500 N 5 Mm
4 tons 400 N VASIMR (low gear) 0.1 m/s^2 0.01g
Ship Mass (metric tons)

300 N 1 km/s
3 tons 200 N 3 hours
Total DeltaV Required

500 m/s
2 tons 100 N 0.05 m/s^2 1 Mm
VASIMR (med gear) 400 m/s
MK-48 torpedo 0.04 m/s^2 300 m/s
50 N 500 km
40 N VASIMR (high gear) Earth surface-Int'l Space Station 2 hours
0.03 m/s^2 200 m/s
30 N
1 ton
Transit Time

20 N
Destination

0.02 m/s^2
100 m/s
Distance

100 km

50 km
0.01 m/s^2
30 m/s 30 km
1 hour