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Yeah, of course! I launch at night when going to the outer solar system and launch in the day when going to the inner solar system. I guess sunrise and sunset would be better though, hehe. @GoodGameHunter Babel - Mk III says "Contains locked or invalid parts", even in sandbox. If it requires mods, I'm not gonna mod until I get through with the career mode. Besides, I want to test an asparagus that uses parts comparable to those I use in my fuel tornado.

I could calculate the intersection of these curves but I don't have the equations for the drag curve or gravity curve for Kerbin. @ihtoit I can't exactly use my booster engines for landing on Gilly, haha. Of course I'm going to have linear stages on top of my boosters. @Levelord Haha, yeah I was just trying to escape the sun for a test and I happened to pass near Jool.

Success! Escaped sun's gravity and still have a mass of 5.21t. Three unused stages left on my rocket.

I just got a 24.33t ship going 2994 m/s. Now, I haven't tried asparagus yet, but this result seems pretty good.

The drag should be way, way lower, n'est-ce pas? Assuming all other things being equal it should get to escape velocity sooner. Guess I should test both. Gonna try out this vegetable theory, see how it goes. What's all this talk about need to throttle down? Why would I throttle down? If the asparagus is dropping engines, technically it is the one throttling down, hehe. I keep my 8 engines till the end. Well, almost. In the second to last stage I drop three Rockomax 48-7S helper engines. I just got a 24.33t ship going 2994 m/s. Now I haven't tried the accepted asparagus way yet, but this seems like a pretty good result.

Yeah, I have five SAS Modules on top, but together only weigh 1.0. Right, I don't use thrust vectoring; I just go straight up into space, dump the booster, and navigate from there.

I call it the Staged Pendulum Liquid Fuel Tornado Booster Thing. Or just tornado staging. Got this game three weeks ago. Addicted.