What's the Largest Rocket you've ever built? Interplanetary and Launchers Mostly

[EdwardKu]

A bit on the small side compared to some ships on this thread, but flown properly this baby can pull up to 80 tons of gear out as far as Jool. Here's a picture of it sliding into Eve carrying 45 tons of cargo.

[worir4]

Bah! Giant vehicles don't count as a launch victory if you turn off the bloody gravity!

Here's another of mine. Someone once said that you couldn't build a very tall rocket, because it became unstable and impossible to launch.

http://i.imgur.com/jk7lPXb.png

If someone with better eyes than mine can count those orange tanks and give me a number, I'd appreciate it. I never knew how tall that thing was. I couldn't see all of it at once in the VAB for obvious reasons.

#EDIT: Shot on the pad so you can use the watertower to reference height.

http://i.imgur.com/EsOG2Ny.jpg

#EDIT2: Just noticed the on-the-pad picture is an older one... you can see I wasn't yet done with the external truss shell.

I counted 17 but i may be wrong.

[AndreyATGB]

Probably this, my Eve lander was also rather big but the RSS stuff is probably the largest.

[John FX]

I once decided to land a spacestation on Minmus.

Can you see the kerbal on the ground and the one hanging off the side?

My kethane miner was quite big too, could empty most deposits in a single landing

Don`t know part counts or weight as they are pre-24.2 and from an era of overdesign.

Now I mostly build really small things.

[wolfedg]

I've built so many now, that I have no clue what the largest one I've ever built is, But i do know what the smallest one is.

Budget cuts at the KSC have led to some hard times for the engineers.

[Red Iron Crown]

My largest "serious" rocket, for at ill-fated 6-kerbal Jool-5 attempt. About 3600t on the pad, a bit over 600t in LKO.

On the pad:

Circularizing:

In orbit:

I have a slightly larger rocket in the works for a single-launch Eve return mission, but it's not ready for public display yet.

[NecroBones]

My largest would have to be my 1100-ton payload lifter (over 7500 on the pad). I never actually did anything with it. I just wanted to see if I could get a payload with 4-digits of mass into orbit with something stable and reliable, using stock parts. This was not long after the ARM patch (0.23.5) released. My Jool-5 was probably heavier overall, but the largest of the two launches for that weighed in around 6800 on the pad.

Jool-5, propulsion-section launch (6800+ on the pad):

1100-ton lifter (7500+ on pad):

Edited November 21, 2014 by NecroBones

[Red Iron Crown]

My largest would have to be my 1100-ton payload lifter (over 7500 on the pad). I never actually did anything with it. I just wanted to see if I could get a payload with 4-digits of mass into orbit with something stable and reliable. This was not long after the ARM patch (0.23.5) released.

Could cut the part count down with mod parts, I hear SpaceY is good for this.

(Seriously though, what is the part count on that monster?)

[Norpo]

Could cut the part count down with mod parts, I hear SpaceY is good for this.

(Seriously though, what is the part count on that monster?)

That's the person who made SpaceY, or did I miss the joke?

Anyways, I did build some large rockets in the past, but now i'm going for efficiency. My latest large rocket was my 6.4x Kerbol minmus mission, I don't know how much it weighs, but it's not very fun to try to pilot, I know that much!

But the largest rocket, period? Well, this is the largest one I could find in the screenshot.

(3 parts procedural fairings)

I know i've built bigger, but this picture just makes me laugh. (don't ask what happens when I seperate them)

[NecroBones]

That's the person who made SpaceY, or did I miss the joke?

Yep, that was the joke.

Could cut the part count down with mod parts, I hear SpaceY is good for this.

(Seriously though, what is the part count on that monster?)

LOL, yes, I suppose the part count could go down now.

I just edited the post above with part of my Jool-5 launch too, which was close.

I had to find the .craft file first but it looks like the 1100-ton lifter had 751 parts (with the clamps). Not bad for its size.

Edited November 21, 2014 by NecroBones

[Jouni]

My biggest serious rocket is the one used to launch the lander/transfer stage section of my 6.4x Tylo ship. It's almost 4000 tonnes at launchpad, and the payload capacity is something like 150-200 tonnes to a 200 km orbit.

The Tylo ship itself, when it's fully fueled, is going to be my biggest interplanetary ship ever. At over 2500 tonnes, it's more than 50% heavier than my 7-kerbal stock Eve lander.

In this picture, the ship is still missing the command module, as it would be an unnecessary obstacle for the fuel tankers.

[von Ziegendorf]

20.531 tons and 300MN of thrust. It was used to launch Philtrey to all Galilean moons in Real Solar System.

[problemecium]

Well now that the thread's been necro'd, time for me to post my behemoth:

[GiantTank]

Well now that the thread's been necro'd, time for me to post my behemoth:

http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/27/45/47/screen25.jpg

Can it fly? If so, download please...

[Overfloater]

O.O

Here's mine:

It flew to Mars.

[Frozen_Heart]

Just waiting for Zekes to post his.... He seems pretty proud of it!

[Stratzenblitz75]

Biggest rocket I've ever built?

This thing:

Yes, those are 20 meter procedural fuel tanks. The 5 meter ones were just too small.

With 79 KW Rocketry Century engines, this monstrosity has almost 900 MN of thrust at launch. Even then, that's just enough to give me a TWR of 1.1 at launch.

The payload itself weighs over 6000 tons and the fairing weighs over 3000 tons.

You may see it in action soon^TM...

[GloriousWater]

Well, I can't hold a candle to some of the monstrosities in this thread, because my biggest rocket is still relatively sane.

Behold my single-launch Eeloo ship, weighing in at a "small" 1085t at launch:

[moogoob]

Here I was thinking I was daring for using two layers of LRB/orange fuel tank asparagus boosters. You guys take it to a new level.

[Tripzter]

With cheats (white tanks)

[mythbusters844]

I don' really make huge lifters, but I did once to dock a massive NASA fuel tank to my space station.

Lifter:

Awesome view of SRB sep:

Approaching the station (the entire payload weighed around 100 tons):

Docked (the tank is full FYI):

[n.b.z.]

My largest lifter is the Tylo-100A.

Named after its first destination (3 Kerbals and 2 Rovers are currently on Tylo) and the amount of Mainsails that run at liftoff.

I did not look at numbers during the flight, so I don't actually know how much weight this ...thing lifts to LKO.

On the pad, the total weight of the lifter + Tylo hardware ist 7977,36t.

I'm not going to launch the stack again just to get a reading on the LKO lift capability, and the reason is another number - part count: 1576. Ouch!!

[KevinW42]

My largest launch was the transfer stage for my failed Jool 5 attempt.

The completed ship (which wobbled itself to death):

[zekes]

7000 tonnes on launchpad, 800 payload to LKO. This one is 1600 parts - it's my entire Laythe base in one launch.

The launcher itself is here: http://www./download/8j35l61x6gy726c/Cira+VI.craft

[Rakaydos]

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Jool 5, with the old stock rebalance.