[stock only] Most fuel at 500 km kerbin orbit.

[Mars90000000]

With more planets to discover and more still to come with the next KSP update, and with these planets being further and further away from kerbin, It is required to efficiently be able to carry the most fuel into space.

The Challenge: Carry as many fuel tanks as possible into a stable circular 500 km Kerbin orbit. These tanks should not be connected to any engine used during the ascent stage and should be full. Make the most efficient launch and ascent stages. Once in 500 km orbit, decouple launch and/or ascent stage, and only have an interplanetary stage (i.e, 1 or 2 engines, and as many tanks as possible connected using fuel lines to the interplanetary stage engines, you shouldn't actually have to use that stage for this challenge so all tanks should be full).

Whoever can get the most fuel into orbit, wins!

Use stock parts only!

[Kosmo-not]

I think this is going to promote huge spaceships and not necessarily efficient ones.

[Nao]

Yeah it's really a race of computing power, just recently i managed to get 202tons of "cargo" into 77km orbit (with 5800l of fuel left).

Unfortunately it's not enough for this challenge (managed to get 500km-200km orbit) but in 202t there were 175t of fuel (35000L). And as i get 1FPS during whole first minute of ascent so its kind of pushing it.

If enough people post I'll do a proper run.

[bsalis]

Normally eager to do such a challenge. However the requirements are odd, and considering it's an engineering challenge, i would allow MechJeb to deal with lag and level the playing field.

Getting a big craft into orbit and doing some simple navigation task I would think is a better measure of a high delta-V interplanetary vehicle. In fact I had posted such a challenge not long ago. Sadly no takers, but good news is i'm reigning champ

[m1xte]

2122t in launchpad.

367t in 100km kerbin orbit.

235t in eve orbit.

145t landed and stranded in eve

No three man return mission with this setup.

[Qumefox]

2122t in launchpad.

367t in 100km kerbin orbit.

235t in eve orbit.

145t landed and stranded in eve

No three man return mission with this setup.

Are those with stock parts? If so, how the hell? I'm being hard pressed to get 100t into LKO with stock parts.

[notasurgeon]

For these types of challenges, I think it might be nice to put some sort of upper limit like number of parts or ship mass so that people with older computers can still participate.

[nhnifong]

I managed to get 18800 liters to orbit. Unfortunately this is stock so I don't know how many tons it is, but it looks like a few hundred.

[notasurgeon]

The largest ship I've ever gotten into orbit had 400 parts and ended up with about 170t in orbit. Poor computer could barely handle it. I'm also curious how you got 367t up there.

[m1xte]

Sorry it was mechjebbed to orbit.

Without mechjeb this is super PI 32M challenge.