DY 20 class
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| DY-20 | |
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| Category | Exploratory Sleeper vessel |
| Expected Duration | 6 years |
| Time Between Resupply | 2 years |
| Time Between Refit | N/A |
| Personnel | |
| Crew | 3 |
| Passengers | 24 |
| Speed | |
| Cruising Velocity | Sublight, Ion Drive powered |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 80.2m |
| Width | 24.3m |
| Height | 24.3m |
| Decks | 2 |
The information contained on this page has not been accepted by Obsidian Fleet's Research and Development department and is thus not an available ship class for a sim.
The DY-20 class starship was the first successful sleeper ship developed jointly by NASA and the ESA, with assistance from Chronowerx Corporation's subsidiary, Yoyodyne Space Systems. Only six units of this class were produced before being phased out for the larger DY-60 class which was brought into service. The DY-20 was designed for short range exploration and passenger transfer, however they wound up being used mostly to found the first Human colony on the Moon, which was again a joint operation between the European Space Agency and the North American Space Agency.
The first DY-20, the USS Washington was completed in Florida in 1990 and subsequently launched into space from Cape Canaveral where it then subsequently docked at the first spacedock ever put into Earth Orbit, which had been designed specifically to facilitate the transfer of people and cargo from Earth, to the Moon. It was serviced almost entirely by "space planes" reusable craft which were able to land on conventional runways and enter orbit at most once a day.
The DY-20 functioned for three years as the sole method of supplying the Lunar 1 Base, a role which was taken over by the new DY-60, a process which was unfortunately sped up by the loss of the ESV Berlin, the sixth and final DY-20 ship when it's drive system malfunctioned and failed to stop, meaning that by the time the ship entered the Lunar atmosphere, it was unable to slow down enough to make a successful landing and ended up crashing into the surface of the Moon, killing the crew aboard her.
Ships of the class
| DY-20 ships | |||||
| Name | Operating Authority | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USS George Washington | NASA | Retired, currently stored in the Museum of Spaceflight, San Fransisco | |||
| ESV Europe | ESA | Retired, currently stored in the Museum of European Spaceflight, Brussels | |||
| USS Neil Armstrong | NASA | Decomissioned | |||
| ESV London | ESV | Decomissioned | |||
| USS Theodore Roosevelt | NASA | Decomissioned | |||
| ESV Berlin | ESV | Destroyed | |||