M_Rat13

It's designed to haul a big orange and large monoprop tank to orbit. It should do fine with this. Might need to make multiple trips, but I can get everything to orbit. Plus what you've told me is I need 2 nukes with 12 mk 1 tanks and I should be able to do a round trip. Shame nukes are the only viable engine, especially since I only want to go Minmus, at least for now. I would go the mun if it meant I used less delta-v, but then I'd need a larger lander for a mining rig and that would probably be very heavy considering muns gravity. Only other option is capture an asteroid into say a 100 km orbit around kerbin and build a mining base on that. Don't know how effective that would be however.

What if you halved the fuel load also? Not only would that bring TWR back up a little, wouldn't it also not lose too much delta-v due to the reduced weight? Also, do you have to use nukes just for Minmus? You can get to the Mun without them, and I didn't think Minmus was that much further away, but I might be wrong. Edit: Seems someone just answered my question, but isn't that assuming using the same thrust? How do say, terriers, perform, especially if I decided to cut down to two of whichever engine I chose. Granted it'd be a long burn time but that doesn't bother me, because in the end I'm more efficient so use less fuel, especially since I'd be refuelling at space stations, distance between fill ups would be nice if it were higher, but a round trip is the minimum.

I might use that idea later down the line, when I have more experience under my belt/want to explore further. However, that seems much more long term than what I am currently aiming at. The designs I have are small enough to where a normal laugh works just fine. My space station design would be small enough for two launches, one for the main body (which would include power), and one for the fuel tanks, so for now a tug works. I could just have a nuke powered space plane (my only other option other than getting better at rockets), but the added weight of nukes which are useless till you get high enough around Kerbin, just seems to give me diminishing returns as of right now. So thanks for this idea, but currently I'd like to stick to the question I've asked, if that's ok with you.

I've never been good with rockets weirdly. I can use them in the tutorial as they tell you what you need to do, but when flying a rocket or in fact building, I don't really know what to do, but I try to learn. Space planes being single stage (and the fact I understand regular plane mechanics pretty well), make them easier for me personally to fly. I'm pretty weird compared to most players in that regard. I suppose eventually I'll learn, but I prefer working with things I know for certain before I start with harder things. Edit: I don't know if it's just affecting me but my posts are being hidden till looked at by a moderator. But looking at the edited post, do I really need that much thrust/delta-v to get to Minmus with my load requirement? I may be new to this but from what I've read/watched on YouTube, that sounds enough to get to Duna, maybe I'm missing something. And I don't mind a slow burn time if it means I can carry less fuel.

Hello, I am relatively new to KSP (on Xbox one). I've been going through the tutorials and messing round in creative and feel I'm improving little by little. Now I have set a challenge for myself. I want make my stamp on my first step to space, the Kerbin system, by having space stations around Kerbin and Minmus, and having a mining colony on Minmus to help me on my way to reaching further into the Kerbol system. My main problem is: I can get into orbit with a spaceplane, and have a small orbital monoprop tug tug design to start building the Kerbin station, but I need a more efficient tug to get large space parts to Minmus. The max weight for my loads is likely 50 tons (fuel tank system). So, what type of tug would you recommended for taking these type of loads to Minmus? Please bear in mind the tug has to fit into a mk 3 cargo bay. Added pictures of your designs would be appreciated. Please also understand this is mostly a discussion of ideas, so my final design may be a joining of different ideas. So with that out of the way, what are your ideas?