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Nothing shows for me, no images or releases, oh it was created 31 minutes ago - - - Updated - - - Also do you want the Ares V I have been working on to do the construction launches?

October 1st! The movie is coming, got to get this thing out the door. I still don't have a Hermes, and an orbit. I have everything else to create a first run of the save. I need to find a good in game date for a Hermes Duna flyby, Kerbin Return, I need to finish the rover journey from Pathfinder (at anomaly 1) to DAV at Anomaly 2. I need some idea of the required dV to make the DAV.

Thanks, but I already sorted it. Like I said just tweaking the Duna transfer now.

I want it to be possible to send everything except the hab, no way to pretend the hab is anything other than a huge fairing if you try and launch it.

I meant instead of having an engine facing forwards, have them in a normal configuration but rotated so they fire through the centre of mass. - - - Updated - - - Like Val's second one...ninja'd

Thats the Ares V I asked you for some help with last week, the cargo container is the one I sent you (needed more chutes, landing gear and airbrakes) I used the SRB's from the Ares 1 and snuck a mainsail into the bottom of the Mammoth. For something strapped together in an hour or so, it went really well, the main body is 5.6m wide, the SRB's were already the right size from the Ares 1, and the height is pretty bang on for 2/3 scale. Just tweaking now to get the dV for a Duna run. It's the launch vehicle for all the hardware in The Dunatian.

It's a really interesting design. Have you thought about rotating the engines instead so their direction of thrust goes through the centre of mass?

First launch, blew the Launchpad up, it got off the ground OK but a staging error later on (there only about 50 stages gimme a break) caused fairing loss. Back to the VAB for some more launch clamps and staging rearrangement, second launch 100km orbit, at the moment it is 350 odd parts (200 or so in the cargo - 2 rovers). It has no RCS and nearly all control came from the engine gimbals. 100+t into orbit. Left is the transfer stage 47t and the payload 58t. Do you think an S3-7200 and a rhino will get it to Duna? Edit: Oh it's 2/3 scale same as the Ares 1, uses the same SRB's in fact.

Holy crap it is big! Quite spectacular

Now with less Aerocam 180

The orion is 4 to 6 crew, depending on which version

Majorjim is right, i did not need to clip any aero surface in at all, just some verniers to make it turn against the torque of the SRB's, mines 2/3 scale, that seems to be 1/3 scale. - - - Updated - - - new Download is now live!

Update 2! Images have been updated, craft file soon, need to remove some mods.

The lets fix this little error (using the height of a 4 segment SRB rather than the 5 segment), I hate that the colors wrong, paint it, wow looks good, I should make a video now scatterer seems to be working really good on OpenGL, OK there a few other changes I need to make and mods to add to make the video better, also it would look better if this worked like that, lets rebuild that bit to fit aaaaannnd, virtually a whole new rocket later. Update to original coming real soon now (need to get rid of the mods, mostly cameras). This thing has been launched so many times in the last day or so, it's image is burned into the LCD.

I'm not sure the estimated cost per launch of the Ares was 1 billion, compared to 59 million for the Falcon 9, it only took half the payload, but you could launch more than 10 Falcon's for the cost of an Ares 1. Anyway I think we have derailed the thread enough.

Would love to see you divide up the SSTO's by returnable (would bump me up the ladder for no effort at all )

I like a smaller Hermes, the movie version surprised me with how big it was, it would probably cost the GDP of the US for a year to launch it.

Apparently the Ares 1 was several times more expensive than the Falcon 9. It pained me to find that out especially after just putting so much work into my replica.

At least 64 extra parts

I wanted to rep you for the video, but I can't just yet.

Sprucing up the Ares 1, almost ready to update the download. You can see a launch here

I know Yukon is doing a Hermes, but don"t let that stop you submitting your own. There is no predermined list. I will pick whichever craft fits best with the gameplay and the asthetic.

Fairings make decent bearings too

I built this Ares 1 and Orion capsule as part of the pack for 'The Dunatian' a stock playable save file based on 'The Martian' book/film. I discovered a small error and went back to update it. I had always hated that it was not the right color stock, so while I was working on it I gave it a paint job and some decals. She is such a beauty I made a little video of her launching and deploying Orion. Hope you enjoy. Note: Sorry if you don't hear music, still playing with it