One Of Each Part

[Ultimate Steve]

Less of a challenge and more of a mission idea, this is a reboot of a challenge I only vaguely remember from several years ago.

The challenge is to see how far you can get while using only one of each part per craft. This means that if you use, say, a mainsail engine, you cannot use any other mainsail engines on the rest of the craft. Or if you have a type of a wing, no more of that type! I expect that this will lead to some crazy looking asymmetric designs.

There are a few exceptions to this rule, however:

1. Launch Clamps (Only used for ground stabilization so probably fair)
2. Struts (Rockets would be very wobbly otherwise and the functionality can be replicated with autostruts)
3. Fuel Lines (Functionality can be replicated with fuel flow management)

Other than that, only one of each part! This means docking ports, RCS blocks, decouplers, fuel tanks, etc. Technically you can use orbital assembly to get around this, though there will be a note next to your submission.

The DLCs are allowed but there will also be a note next to your submission.

There's no scoring or anything, just try to do impressive stuff with these restrictions.

Enjoy!

 

[18Watt]

I don't think this would rule out docking, because there are several medium docking ports, which are different parts.  The regular one, in-line, in-line Mk2, shielded, and finally the inflatable (I can never remember if the inflatable airlock is the small size or normal size..).

Also, the two Claws (small and big) can be used to 'dock' as well.

[camacju]

Ooh, I did a cool mission for this challenge a while back. I'll repost it here.

SSTO to Laythe, Pol, Eeloo, and Ike. Flybys of Mun, Minmus, Eve, Tylo, Duna, and Jool.

Parts list is:

Spoiler

Structural Wing Type A
Structural Wing Type B
Wing Connector A
Wing Connector B
Elevon 1
Elevon 2
Elevon 3
Elevon 4
Delta-Deluxe Winglet
Shock Cone Intake
AE-FF1 Fairing
LV-N Atomic Rocket Motor
CR-7 RAPIER Engine
Probodobodyne HECS2
PB-NUK RTG
Small Landing Gear
Medium Landing Gear
Large Landing Gear
Mk3 Liquid Fuel Fuselage

19 parts in total

Launch

Spoiler

Craft in VAB. COL and COM aren't quite balanced, it has a tendency to roll to one side.

On runway

The Mk3 tank and the unbalanced wings, as well as the relatively high weight for a single Rapier, mean that the craft struggles to maintain altitude initially.

At 500 m/s I start climbing to 21 km.

At 1650 m/s I turn on the Nerv and hold prograde for the rest of the ascent. This ascent profile is pretty typical of high efficiency SSTO craft.

In orbit with 7.8 km/s remaining. I could land but that would be a waste of this craft.

Jool transfer

Spoiler

Transfer burn is split into two parts due to low TWR

Transfer burn finishes

Eve flyby

Kerbin flyby 1

Kerbin flyby 2

Tylo flyby

Laythe aerocapture

Laythe

Spoiler

Aerobraking passes to slow down and fine tune orbit

Second aerobrake

Waiting for the landing zone to come onto the daylight side

Landed on Laythe

Using the nuclear engine as a RATO because Laythe is hard to take off from

Nuke is shut off right after takeoff, rapier continues

Ascent profile is similar to on Kerbin

Nuke turns on at 1680 m/s and 23.5 km

Laythe orbit

Pol

Spoiler

Laythe escape burn

Tylo flyby

Pol capture burn

Pol landing burn

Landed on Pol

Ascent from Pol

Pol orbit

Eeloo

Spoiler

Pol escape burn

Tylo assist

Tylo flyby

Eeloo close approach

Eeloo capture burn

Eeloo landing burn

Landed on Eeloo

Eeloo ascent

Eeloo orbit

Ike

Spoiler

Jool transfer

Tylo assist for plane change

Tylo assist

The Tylo assist increases my Jool relative velocity enough to give me a Duna encounter in two orbits

Duna aerocapture

Ike encounter

Very low energy Ike encounter - 0.6 m/s capture burn

Ike landing burn

Landed on Ike with wheel braking to save fuel

Ike ascent

Ike orbit

Return

Spoiler

Ike escape burn

Duna escape burn

Mun flyby

I tried to aerobrake into a Minmus encounter but I didn't have enough fuel

Aerobraking

Approaching KSC

Used Rapier to taxi onto runway

 

[gamepuch]

i'll try to get to mun orbit and back for this challange

[Superfluous J]

Wasn't it called "One with Everything" or something like that? I'm 95% sure I posted a video of it...

Yeah here it is, seems to be a full one-and-done from start to finish. No need to consider it an entry I'm just happy my memory still works this well.

Spoiler

 

 

[TRAPPIST-1E]

What about parts in inventories?

Also, is more than 1 repair kit per craft allowed?

 

Edited January 1, 2022 by TRAPPIST-1E