MARS-SUN L4—UDACHNYTwo thirty-meter-wide doughnut-shaped objects floated twenty meters apart, about a kilometer distant from the rotating Udachny Complex. A thirty-meter-long fat lance shape floated inside the rings, not touching them but locked in magnetic resonance. The ring bodies were four meters thick, and the lance was seven meters thick, tapering to a point at one end and terminating in a four-VASIMR-engine cluster at the other. Two clusters of fuel tanks encircled the middle of the lance.
“Give me an update,” Orlov said to Academician Borisovich as they stood in his dome-covered office at the top of the Udachny Complex looking out over the starship.
“Do you recall our discussion of the VASIMR propulsion for Elektro-Garpun?”
“Of course.” Irritation colored Orlov’s voice.
“The fa
