SSTOs! Post your pictures here~

[ScriptKitt3h]

thats a cool looking craft

Thanks, I try.

I'm hoping it'll be able to acheive Munar flyby, if not a one-way Duna trip. Ideally, I hope to make a Laythe round-trip hauler and dock two Lynx SSTOs, then take them and some hab landers to Laythe.

[Parallax]

[speedboiae86]

I'm personally not a fan of too many mods in a game, but that looks freaking sweet!!

[Rune]

And for the pointlessness of it all... this worked MUCH better than expected!

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Rune. It was a very stylish way to get to orbit and back, I must admit that.

[TheAnimePug]

http://theanimepug.imgur.com/

My S.S.T.O

Full post: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/102343-Peacock-S-S-T-O-and-beyond

[NeatCrown]

http://theanimepug.imgur.com/

My S.S.T.O

Full post: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/102343-Peacock-S-S-T-O-and-beyond

Try this: [ imgur ] code[ / imgur ] (remove spaces and put the album code where is says "code", which is what is bold and italic

http://imgur.com/a/pRlY6#0)

[soulreaver1981]

And for the pointlessness of it all... this worked MUCH better than expected!

http://imgur.com/a/0FGSO

Rune. It was a very stylish way to get to orbit and back, I must admit that.

Hey that looks like the rocket form the tin tin comic

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01175/arts-graphics-2007_1175942a.jpg

[Wanderfound]

The Kerbodyne Kosciuszko: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/90747-Kerbodyne-SSTO-Division-Omnibus-Thread?p=1583102&viewfull=1#post1583102

Laythe trip album at http://s1378.photobucket.com/user/craigmotbey/Kerbal/Kerbodyne%2025/Kerbodyne%20Kosciuszko/story and http://s1378.photobucket.com/user/craigmotbey/Kerbal/Kerbodyne%2025/Kerbodyne%20Kosciuszko/Laythe%20Landing/story

[Krakis]

[stock Craft][.25]

My latest SSTO the Velocity Hound. Will lift just about anything you can fit into a large MKII cargo bay and is easy enough for even me to fly.

[PCanas]

These are my most recent creations. I'm no expert in building SSTOs, in fact, these are my first 2 successfull creations.

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This one has been tested with and without cargo. It flies reasonbaly well, but has this constant urge to pitch down. And looks like I'm not good at landing lol

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This one has not been tested with cargo yet, and I suspect it has more cargo bay space than it can actually haul lol

Flies much better and stable than the previous model, but tneds to pith up. Has an escape system that proved useful...

This 2 designs of mine have been built with help of, and are "beeing discussed" on this thread, where you can also find the .craft files for them

edit: note that these crafts are all in experimental stage, so they don't have docking ports and other systems. For example, I forgot to add RCS ports on the rear of the first craft, wich makes it hard to execute some maneuvers in space. The engines on the second design overheat until they completely shut down, but can be reactivated a few seconds later in rocket mode.

Edited December 9, 2014 by PCanas

[Spartwo]

[david50517]

Space Craft 12

[Immashift]

I like the forward swept wing design of the new stock plane, but I wasn't a fan of the staged engines and thought it could be done a lot better, so I tweaked it a lot, redesigned the wings, removed the 909s from the back and threw on some rapiers. This was the result:

The Karbonite here is accidental. I forgot to tweak the fuel in the two tiny flat LF cans I use for extra jet time.

Around 26km at 1500m/s is when the plane autoswitches to closed cycle. You CAN manually do it and coax it faster and higher with some throttle management, but I more or less set it at a constant low angle at 13km and let it do its thing.

All stock save for a couple added features you can easily do without or imitate with stock parts.

On the underside are 4 5-way retractable RCS jets from Bahamuto Dynamics (linear jets for downward thrust on the top of the wings), as well as a couple low profile LF cans designed to offset the 60-ish LF you burn in jet mode on ascent.

I'm using B9 landing gear because... it's just better. Less weight, motors, steerable...

You can elongate this and bring in a cargo bay, it has more than enough oomph to get some cargo up to orbit. I just wanted a nice compact design.

Edited December 12, 2014 by Immashift

[chrise6102]

Most posts here seem to be about spaceplanes which makes sense! But here's my SSTO rocket!

It can manage a 100km orbit but don't expect it to carry much in the way of cargo! I mainly use it for crew transfers, pickups etc

[Captain Sierra]

Most posts here seem to be about spaceplanes which makes sense! But here's my SSTO rocket!

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It can manage a 100km orbit but don't expect it to carry much in the way of cargo! I mainly use it for crew transfers, pickups etc

SSTO rockets are underrated.

[qromodynmc]

Even thought I made tons of planes before,I have never made a ssto in far or near,Until now

This thing flies nice,Goes up to almost 1000ms in sea level goes into orbit with around 800-900ms dv left,also has proper airbrakes

[soulreaver1981]

just made this little ssto.

this is the white lightning

a nice 100 km orbit and stil some fuel left

[manni01]

My new SSTO

Its a Laythe cargo SSTO that brings 6-8 tons to Laythe

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[Captain Sierra]

qromodynmc, you can probably get away with 2 RAPIERs on that thing and switch the other two out for turbojets. The thing looks like a featherweight so I doubt you actually need 4 RAPIERs worth of rocket power to achieve orbit. 2 RAPIER, 2 turbojet might be a more efficient way to go for you.

Immashift, I replicated that as a trainer. Replacing the docking port with a Mk 2 fuselage short LF gives me a big margin of error on fuel with all tanks full and boy does she handle like a jet fighter when the fuel is out. Almost put her into a flat spin spiraling down to the runway just west of KSC.

Wanderfound, your stuff never ceases to amaze me. Do those work stock or are they only FAR compatible. I ask because they're the first real SSTOs I've seen of that size that don't appear to have blatant air hogging.

Edited December 14, 2014 by Captain Sierra

[david50517]

Space Craft A

Space Craft 4-3

[chrise6102]

David50517.... please tell me those things fly!???

[Peebothuhlu]

I see them and all I can think of is...

Much cheers to all.

[Brofessional]

I love how this thing turned out; 18 Kerbals to 500x500km and back.

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Edited December 14, 2014 by Brofessional

[Frozen_Heart]

Got round to finishing the rebuild of my SSTO from 0.24. I'd had a lot of trouble getting it to work in 0.25 and its performance was awful. I've finished getting it back to its original standard and it can once again get to a much higher orbit.

[ScriptKitt3h]

Got round to finishing the rebuild of my SSTO from 0.24. I'd had a lot of trouble getting it to work in 0.25 and its performance was awful. I've finished getting it back to its original standard and it can once again get to a much higher orbit.

http://i.imgur.com/XgOcDrO.png

Ooh, nice! It looks even better now with the SP+/0.25 wings.