Hawk lander/tug

[Hotel26]

Maybe a year ago, I revamped my venerable but archaic lander to produce the more compact but still muscular Hawk lander/tug using second-generation technology.

Hawk comes with four attachments (to be shown later):

1. fuel pod (5,760 LF; 7,040 OX; 1,500 MP)
2. Klaw
3. small dock for skycrane/spaceplane usage
4. Hitchhiker

A jump seat for dare-devil solo riders is also standard equipment.  Hawk is powered by twin Reliant engines plus also twin Puff engines.

I should have realized long ago (because it seems so obvious now) that Hawk's MP propulsion system, developing TWR>1 (on the Mun), is ideally suited to hovering and RCS translation (rather than thrust vectoring) and this makes it the ideal machine for top-dock operations on lo-grav surface operations.

 

 

Hawk's primary purpose is boosting fuel to orbit from surface mining operations.  It's secondary purpose is ferrying ground equipment to the surface via operation as a skycrane.

It also excels as a space station tug and/or orbital lane emergency rescue/refuel vehicle.

Hawk is the Swiss knife of the orbital lanes and I probably do more work with it than all other craft combined.

Edited May 2, 2018 by Hotel26

[Hunony]

nice