Share your rockets

[iamwearingpants]

[move][glow=red,2,300]Welcome to the rocket thread. Feel free to share your rockets with a screenie, a .craft, and optionally some stats.[/glow][/move]

I'll start.

I am heavy rockets guy, and this is my rocket:

It costs 400 thousand dollars to fuel this rocket for 12 seconds

[Holt]

That thing actually fly without blowing up?

~EDIT~

No. No it doesn't.

[iamwearingpants]

You have to be very careful, or else

[Holt]

Adjust the stages maybe? Looks complex. Also why all the SAS modules do they actually do anything?

[iamwearingpants]

They stabilize it. stabilization is what keeps it from exploding.

[kayweb]

Good god almighty, please take video of that taking off.

[EatThePath]

Tried launching Sasha. As it loads, it never gets off the pad. I moved the unobstructed solids to the first stage so they'll fire immediately, and that did make it move... it wobbled sideways off the pad then fell over and exploded. Is there some special trick to this?

[Applesauce]

I'm pretty proud of this one. It's not the best rocket I've made but it's the best-looking.

[ijuin]

Tried launching Sasha. As it loads, it never gets off the pad. I moved the unobstructed solids to the first stage so they'll fire immediately, and that did make it move... it wobbled sideways off the pad then fell over and exploded. Is there some special trick to this?

Did you check to be certain that the combined thrust of the firing first stage engines exceeds the combined weight of the entire vehicle? It's not going to lift off if it can't lift its own weight from the pad!

[Afoxi]

Applebee Mk.II

Applebee Mk.III

[Soldats]

My delta IV gets escape velocity

EDIT: Rocket file attached

[VhenRa]

File for that please?

[Elukka]

OBV(H)-1 (I make stupid acronyms because I can't come up with a name) is my first heavy rocket. On the first flight it inserted the upper stage with an almost full tank of fuel into an orbit with an apogee of 600 kilometers and perigee of 380 km.

[Homer Johnston]

The HoJo VI... this baby is an all-business high-escape-speed design, finally reaching 5000+ m/s at 750,000+ metres. See youtube for description and demonstration:

[Afoxi]

[BillyJoeBob]

Heres my current best rocket, well besides it heaving itself over to the right for about 5KM. The 'Holy Sh**(< because forums) Mk II' Its named as such since I was showing my friend KSP on Livestream and the original of the series started oscillating like crazy and plowed into the ground and we both uttered that statement. The Mk III is a disaster and I'm working on a Mk IV that uses Sunday Punch's fancy new rockets.

[spar]

Here's my best rocket so far, has 10 stages, uses 3x 3 boosters and 3 engines, the 3 engines burn constantly and they have 4 fuel tanks, the 2nd pair of boosters can be used while the 1st ones are still on, same for the 3rd pair of boosters. It's reaching 4500 m/s before it runs out of fuel.

http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u235/spa-rood/Kerbal%20Space%20Program/

[Gruntzilla]

The Featherweight II is a masterpiece of precision engineering: Featuring 12 double tanked thrusters on the initial stage, 2 acceleration stages, and a hi-capacity control engine for the command pod. This machine is fully computer controlled so all the pilot must do is engage the stabilizing system and launch. Any exo-atmospheric destination is quickly reached with the craft's 5130 m/s maximum speed. The future of kerbaled space flight is here, and it begins with the Featherweight series of space craft.

*warning, chute systems may not function

[Leadphalanx]

don't ask me why this flies, but I think it has something to do with excellent aerodynamic properties. The kerbals are definitely on to something.

[Gruntzilla]

Dear God...

[jangofett287]

'In the likely event of an emergency, place your head between your legs, and kiss your bum goodbye.'

I know its from chicken run, but it just seemed so apt.

[molo]

don't ask me why this flies, but I think it has something to do with excellent aerodynamic properties. The kerbals are definitely on to something.

ahahahaha amazing

[guerilla_gearhead]

Here's one of my earlier attempts at high escape velocity, I basically used a crapton of SRB's throughout.

Video of flight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHumrkQGmf4

[Leadphalanx]

After the success of the previous design, Kerbalan engineers improved upon the design, with even more success.

thing gets to 20k meters before running out of juice, maybe I can fix that in the third design.

[Seventh]

Mine was pretty basic with the intent to orbit, got about half way and I think I will need to try again. I was quite pleased to end up on the dark side and the screen shots look pretty cool.