I've been playing KSP for some time, but this is my first forum post - I'd like to introduce a spaceplane I've been working on; https://www.dropbox.com/s/e83cg2vi6fj7lbw/AEropig%209.craft This is the 'Aeropig 9', a suborbital spaceplane equipped with four ion engines which are capable of raising it's perehelion to LKO (if operated from the moment the aircraft leaves the atmosphere), transferring it to Mimmus (if you're prepared to wait 20 minutes), and actually landing on Mimmus if done carefully. It is capable of landing and returning from ANY airless moon small enough that it's T/W ratio is greater than 1, and performing an unpowered glide landing on Kerbin (it has parachutes for emergency braking). I imagine it will come in handy for interplanetary missions when .17 comes out. The vehicle uses four stock jet engines combined with X 7/9 scramjets for operation up to about 12,000 meters, and then three Aerospike engines for operation up to around 30,000 meters, after that it coasts to a sub-orbital altitude of around 120km and uses whatever fuel remains and all it's ion engines to achieve orbit. Unfortunately, it makes use of a lot of mods; Mechjeb Electrical Energy Powertech -DynaThrust Ion engine Kosmos Space station parts Deep space mission Floodlights Bigtrak Novapunch .5 scale stock parts X 7/9 Scramjet C7 Aerospace
