The biggest thing I've ever launched...

[GoSlash27]

I don't normally do large launchers, but I was bored and looking for something different to do.

This is what I came up with: The Monstro 1.0.

318 tonnes of payload to LKO, 1.42 thousand tonnes on the pad.

 

What's the biggest beast you've ever launched? Share your pics and video here!

 

Best,
-Slashy

 

[Vanamonde]

Ship sharing thread moved to the ship sharing subforum. 

[foamyesque]

Think the biggest thing I've ever put into orbit goes back a ways.

 

[septemberWaves]

This thread made me realise how rarely I actually launch big things. I've used SpaceY's 5m parts for an actual payload exactly once, and not made any use of the 7.5m parts other than simply designing the Gaia series of launchers. The largest launcher I use semi-regularly, the Jool 5B, has a maximum payload of about 80t to an 80km orbit, and a launch mass of 586t including payload. I'm only now realising how comparably small that is.

[mhoram]

Sizewise it was the "Giant Gigantor" with 262 solar panels in the old days before the aerodynamics change. The ship was a bit taller than the VAB (full album)

[septemberWaves]

That thing looks like it would be a component of a Dyson sphere.

[doggonemess]

8 hours ago, eloquentJane said:

That thing looks like it would be a component of a Dyson sphere.

Now they just have to make 4e17 more of them and they're done! Copy and paste? 

 

On a side note, this was my first post?! I've got some catching up to do.

Edited August 18, 2016 by doggonemess

[Stratzenblitz75]

At over 20,000 tons, this was the largest thing I've ever launched in KSP:

I also launched this thing:

Its only 10,000 tons, but at 1782 parts, its the most complicated thing I've ever launched.

[Fellow314]

12 hours ago, mhoram said:

Sizewise it was the "Giant Gigantor" with 262 solar panels in the old days before the aerodynamics change. The ship was a bit taller than the VAB (full album)

 

That's awesome.

 

What's it for?

[mhoram]

1 hour ago, Fellow314 said:

That's awesome.

What's it for?

It was for the Challenge that I linked. The intention was to create a station with the highest energy output.

[The Optimist]

[pTrevTrevs]

Hate to rain on all your parades, but let me direct you to a forum member known as @Whackjob. Some of his craft have been so big that they've had to be measured in VABs.

I'm not sure if he's still active here though.

[GoSlash27]

6 minutes ago, pTrevTrevs said:

Hate to rain on all your parades, but let me direct you to a forum member known as @Whackjob. Some of his craft have been so big that they've had to be measured in VABs.

I'm not sure if he's still active here though.

Whackjob was a minor deity around here back in the day. Last I heard, he got a girlfriend and stopped playing very often.

Best,
-Slashy

[Mycroft]

Well... That craft makes my Leviathan look small! And that takes a ton to do! 

[Whackjob]

On 8/18/2016 at 7:03 PM, GoSlash27 said:

Whackjob was a minor deity around here back in the day. Last I heard, he got a girlfriend and stopped playing very often.

Best,
-Slashy

Good lord.  It goes deeper than that.  I'm a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in debt, now.

Why?  Well, the girlfriend and I have bought a house.  We've been busy doing minor repairs and such to get the occupancy permit from the city before we can move in.    Hell of a thing, eh?  I went from presumed bachelor for life to live-in-boyfriend to one heck of a lady.

I know I've started and then failed to finish a number of projects.  I can't but apologize profusely.  Life, you know?  That and this makeshift machine I've been using since I burnt up the processor in my old machine, it's getting rickety.  I need replacement with something modern, but that's not gonna happen this year.  Such is life!  But, I do drop in now and then, if only briefly.

EDIT:  You guys deserve a picture.  

Edit 2:  I've also have built so big, that I needed to make custom seperatrons to move huge stacks.  So, I made one out of a mainsail engine:

Here it is in use:

Edited September 2, 2016 by Whackjob

[foamyesque]

I gotta wonder how you kept that thing stable :v

[Whackjob]

It uses a truss cage.  Long story short, when I started building real big, I learned the best way to keep huge things together was not to go from, say, tank-strut-tank, but rather tank-truss-strut-truss-tank.  It can flex enough to where the weight doesn't shear everything, and enough of them can give you the semblance of a rigid ship.  With it, you can launch everything.

If you mean the first one, the huge stack, there's a whole *ton* of reaction control wheels clipped into the tanks.  Wanted that one to look clean, for some reason.

Edited September 2, 2016 by Whackjob

[Scientia1423]

I wonder how large can a rocket get. Are there any rockets bigger than the 225 meter babel spire?