Kerbalised & Budgeted Blue Origin

[TheGuyNamedAlan]

Jeff Who is struggling to play career mode as for once, he does not have billions of dollars to fund his rocket. He's asking YOU to help him build, fly and land a cheaper version of New Shepherd for a few billion dollars in real life a tortoise badge!

The Challenge:

Build New Shepard and fly it past the Kármán line (70,000 meters in ksp) and land it on the launch pad as cheap as possible.

Bonus:

Build a New Glenn and fly it. Impress me.

Rules:

1. No mods that change the physics/ add parts. Only mods that are allowed are Mechjeb,KER and other info mods unless specified.

2. NO ALT+F12

3. Must launch and land on launchpad.

4. Must carry at least 1 kerbal (Command seats are not allowed)

5. pod must land with parachutes.

6. Have fun!

Leaderboard:

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Badge coming soon!

 

[DerekL1963]

"Build New Shepard" - define what constitutes a "New Shepard" and a "New Glenn".

[MarvinKitFox]

...."and land it on the launch pad"

erm, I'll pass on that bit, every time i try to land on a building , the building blows up on me.

 

Still, here is my new Shepherd's B.O.

click here for the Album

Edited March 28, 2018 by MarvinKitFox

[RedPandaz]

Oh sure

[Hotaru]

Here we go:

 

New Jeb: fully reusable, 10,517 funds (10,058 vehicle, 459 fuel).

 

Spoiler

Liftoff; powerplant is seven 48-7S motors. (Clipped a bit for looks, but it'd still work fine even if they weren't.) Fuel from the main tank is used for ascent while the rear tank is used for landing.

 

Near apoapsis, turned horizontally to make sure the capsule and booster stay a safe distance apart during reentry.

 

Capsule separates & arms parachute; both parts orient for reentry.

 

Booster descends back to the launch site. With the pod gone and all the remaining fuel in the rear tank, the center of mass is far enough back that it's now stable flying tail-first.

 

About to land. Once it's subsonic it uses its engines to maneuver over the launch pad.

 

Landed. Hitting the launch pad would be a lot easier with a mod like Trajectories to predict the landing point, but even without such a mod it only took two tries (the first one ran out of fuel just before touchdown).

 

Meanwhile, the capsule opens its parachute and lands a few kilometers away.

 

Craft file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/npim6ewbuxy2gu3/New Jeb.craft?dl=0

 

[MarvinKitFox]

Oh, you wanted the New Glenn too?

 

Here is my rendition of B.O.'s New Glenn, carefully engineered to be up-to-date

An engine test of the be-4 engine, and some conceptual structures.

Edited March 29, 2018 by MarvinKitFox