u/EcstaticHelp771

Hey all,

While working on my book, I got tired of hand-waving travel times, so I made a small tool to estimate interstellar travel with a basic accelerate => cruise => decelerate model, including fuel mass loss:

👉 https://jsbin.com/wizobaboqu/edit?output

You can tweak engine power, exhaust velocity, efficiency, payload, and fuel to see how it affects travel time and peak speed. I made it myself so that I could run the simulation on a range of parameters and find sweet spots.

It only really works well below light speed.

Would love feedback:

* anything feel off?

* features you’d want?

* and obviously links to similar projects that do it better than I do.

https://preview.redd.it/8gn111bxt22h1.png?width=1336&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a1dc753a9df247e8a56ae2322f51f22f7febdb9

edit: it is not self promotion. I got nothing to sell this sharing is opensource and anonymous.