dusk knot
Since CO2's the prevalent gas in the Venusian atmosphere, would it make sense to make CO2 available there as an RCS fuel? Presumably the belt affiliated parts of the solar system uses nitrogen harvested from outer planet moon atmospheres, but Venus has CO2 right there.
As part of the this, if it's not already accounted for, CO2 use should reduce thruster output by ~16.25% to account for reduced Isp.
round salmon
this is already a thing
all thrusters run on all gasses
all gasses have the same performance in our nuclear-torch RCS engines
dusk knot
more talking about making it available at the VORB fuel kiosk
I'm sure people would truck in N2 to venus for things which need the performance, but most of the locals around venus, why import fuel when you can just harvest atmo CO2 for RCS
round salmon
I guess. I think any ship that can reach and dock with VORB would be trivially capable of dipping into Venus and atmo-scooping.
Also, Venus has a decent percentage of atmo as N2. So there's that too.
dusk knot
3.5%, although it does have more than earth due to atmo density.