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SpaceX family of Rockets

A release thread for my SpaceX family of rockets

Falcon 9

Falcon 9 Block 5 series of boosters with Various Cargoes.

The booster is good for cargo up to a full orange tanks and can do geostationary launches with ease. The majority of the outer ring engines are at only 80% thrust and there is also space for more fuel.

If you wish to re-land the booster separate the second stage at around 50km apoapsis, use a steep ascent, this will maximise your chances of returning to KSC, or head for island runway. Once separated activate the RCS and turn the booster and start burning retrograde. Once all the main fuel is gone hit action group one to deactivate all engines, bar the landing three, and enable the landing fuel. You can adjust your course with this fuel, but keep at least a quarter for the landing itself. Deploy the airbrakes to help slow down and keep the booster pointed retrograde. It will slow to just under 300ms without engines, after that it is up to you, I start boosting at about 1000m up and throttle back as I get closer.

Falcon 9 with Dragon 2 Crew Capsule

Dragon 2 and 'trunk' in orbit

 

Falcon 9 with ComSat Cargo

Falcon 9 with ComSat Cargo in flight

Big Ears ComSat in orbit

 

Falcon 9 and Orbital Construction Rig

Orbital Construction Rig

Edited March 29, 2018 by selfish_meme

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Falcon Heavy

Falcon Heavy with car

Falcon Heavy on the pad

Falcon Heavy ascending

Car

Edited March 17, 2018 by selfish_meme

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Project BFR 

SpaceX (Codename BFR) Interplanetary cargo spacecraft on the pad

BFR Second stage engines

BFR Seperation

There is a bit of work to do on this, the basic design works, but it has no cargo capacity at present, and I won't be able to do it the same way that SpaceX is planning. Initial launch testing looks good, a Duna trip should be possible with refuel, Mun without.

Edited March 12, 2018 by selfish_meme

[eagle92lightning]

Ummm... BFR pictures?

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12 minutes ago, eagle92lightning said:

Ummm... BFR pictures?

Yep, was just reserving the post, up today, with the Falcon Heavy download link and updated Falcon 9's and support craft

[Majorjim!]

These are great mate! They look to be very well made indeed. I look forward to seeing more of the BFR!

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Updated all Falcon 9's, plus added download for Falcon Heavy

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The new 1.4.1 BFR is flying, sunrise launch, it handles pretty well for such a big ship, landing it is going to be challenging

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Did a bit of a stream tonight https://www.twitch.tv/videos/241896983 working on the BFR, mainly the booster, thanks @Dafni  for watching and chatting with me. Booster is coming along slowly, getting closer to a landing attempt

Is it madness? I am not sure yet, it's certainly going to take some tricky flying, and a bit of trial and error to nail the right distance for the heat sheild

Edited March 23, 2018 by selfish_meme

[Dafni]

Hey man! Yes, that was me indeed. You are more than welcome, thank YOU! Was nice to meet you on stream. I'll make sure to drop by again next time I see you online.

Those here are nice replicas, and you run a beautiful KSP too. Keep it up!

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Got to within a 100ms of landing this baby, with a TWR of 1.9 I started final burn with 7 Vectors at 3000m, I still had a little fuel left when I hit the surface and was slowing rapidly, the orbiter had been given a 50k apoapsis at separation and I got back to within a couple of Kilometres off the KSC beach. It's doable, the orbiter has a high enough TWR and enough fuel I don't need to baby it so high, which gets me back closer to KSC. I wonder how many lander legs I will need on this thing. Not many craft in KSP give you a big scale feeling but this has 'momentum'

Edited March 24, 2018 by selfish_meme

[Majorjim!]

Damn man thats awesome! What method did you use to get all white fairings?

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13 minutes ago, Majorjim! said:

Damn man thats awesome! What method did you use to get all white fairings?

It's part of the new version, we complained the new fairings looked...not nice and they gave us stock off-white

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OK, I finally got this Falcon Heavy video out of the way, I need a new video editor, the quality gets worse the more I edit it. Probably have to pay for one.