Single-stage 3-Kerbal Tylo lander

[darrenc]

Hello Forum!

First post here and thank you for all the information you have provided in my time learning the math behind all this! This is the first spacecraft I have "built" mathematically before touching KSP.

Apologies for the abuse of toroidial fuel tanks:

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I seem to have trouble getting imgur to work so if the above fails: https://imgur.com/a/GopYZ

Available on KerbalX

Part count is 227 (all stock). Total Delta-V is a shade over 5800 m/s with an initial TWR at Tylo of 1.04. Propulsion is three Aerospike engines. Also included are three drogue chutes to assist with Laythe, though I recommend emptying the central fuel tanks first to increase TWR first. A small amount of (non-debug) part clipping is used to make the spacecraft look more "real" . The girders which support the toroidial tanks penetrate into the tanks (there is no other way to reach the node!) and there is a Probodyne hiding under the docking port.

Fuel transfer is very difficult with so many tanks; I am on the lookout for a mod which can help. I tried Fuel Pumps but it broke my KSP.

I "designed" this ship using a program I wrote in QBASIC (yes - the old MS-DOS program which I now have to run in DOSBox) which calculated the amount of tankage (fuel/ox and tank mass) needed to achieve a specified Delta-V with a given payload. I tried different engines until I found what seemed to be the best. Does anyone still do QBASIC? I am happy to share code.

Darren C.

 

Edited January 1, 2018 by darrenc
Fixed imgur tag thingy

[Foxster]

Ah, QBasic! One of the early computer languages I learnt and still one of my favorites. 

Cute ship BTW. 

[Matuchkin]

Man, that's a nice [400 BAD REQUEST]

[Jens Lyn IV]

Yo dawg, heard you like toroidal fuel tanks, so we made a toroidal fuel tank out of toroidal fuel tanks so you can land your lander while the tanks tank your framerate.

But it looks cool.