Stelith61

Bah! Geostationary, Keostationary, no biggie. Maybe if I filled half the payload bay with fuel and the other half with a satellite I could do it. I guess I'll find out tomorrow.

Glad to see you're back mate! I'll try some of these out when I get home tomorrow, Especially that Gladius Shuttle. Can it reach, say, Geostationary transfer orbit?

Looks pretty cool man - I'll have a go at flying it and sticking a payload in there when I get home.

I reckon we can now just call this myth busted. It's near impossible with current stock parts, if not completely un-doable.

Tom Paris is offended.

Part clipping's off, Infinite fuel is off, Infinite RCS is off, Infinite EVA is off, and Both stop-breakages/exploding ones are off. Hack gravity would stop it going into orbit.

Wheels are actually weightless in flight I heard.

I made one that can go vertical then transfer to horizontal and fly well. Put canards on the frontish. Wheels on a pole of the lightest possible pole. The struggle with this is making the wheelbase stable because of the angles.

I know that! I mean the Joolian System. Probably Joint Vall/Laythe. Bah! Off topic. I've tried as much as I can to make a ship that has 12km/s in a single stage, but Kerbal Engineer says I keep failing if i keep the Eve twr even just at 1-1, let alone an optimal 1.6-1

Shhh Ignore that.

These look pretty awesome man. Have you tried modifying it for horizontal landing? I'll give them a try later.

It could be done even easier with a Jool encounter. The delta-v numbers become Intercept+ ~200m/s.

Hey guys, I just realized - In ST-VOY, Voyager takes off of a Demon class, or class Y world. Basically, conditions similar to Eve. Does this mean that the USS Voyager is an Eve SSTO capable ship? Okay that's all I had to say. Bye.

I'm fine. I'll eventually build one myself, I just wanna focus on finally doing manned Jool or Gilly missions first. Maybe Eve-Surface return....

Heh. I giggled.

Understandable. I've yet to build a jet SSTO that doesn't look like - well - crap. Let alone one that can dock.

Who said anything about jets? I'm talking about Torodial Aerospikes. And the SSTO I referred to is in my rocket builder's thread in my sig. I'd link it directly/post pics here, but I'm on my phone.

I reckon it might be possible to cluster Aerospikes and LV-T's to make it work, along with a high start point. Would it have to carry everything down and up, or could we drop parachutes ect? I have a Kerbin SSTO that could probably be refitted and refined for the purpose.

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This is amazing, and I wish I could help you with this. I can't wait for the extraterrestrial maps too.