Giggleplex777

I think I'll use Antares to go along with its little brother, Altair: Link: http://i.imgur.com/i2tEMHf.png

I've tried that before. The TR-2C is much weaker than the TR-XL and requires more struts. 100t is very heavy.

I improved the upper stage a bit so that it can send 100t farther than just 75km orbit (goes up to 150km now). I'm struggling to find a name for this rocket. Some names I though of: -Antares (Rival of Ares V) -Centurion (100 tonnes) Can anyone think of a better name? Meanwhile, I built two "mini" Saturn V(ish) derivatives: About 27t and 36t to LKO respectively. I based it off the scale of the Odysseus STS, since its payload capacity is about 1/5 of the real life Space Shuttle it is based off of (~5t vs 27t, so ~27t vs ~130t). At this scale, the LV10A would have a lifting capacity of 500t in real life!

Have you tried time warping? It might work.

Brilliant use of the panels! How does it fly?

I've been very careful with the safety my Kerbals during space missions, but I can't say the same about planes...

Circa 0.18:

Did this two years ago with a pico rocket: Could've visited more planets but I was too inexperienced at that time to do so.

Did you divide the score by 20?

3.375! I've landing on every body but only returned from Gilly and Ike with realistic pico probes.

Continuing work on this after 0.25? Keep the ET and SRBs and build a new shuttle.

Can't wait 'til the panels become stock! The Kerbal X can fit inside the fairing. Links to the pictures: http://i.imgur.com/kTYPEpe.png http://i.imgur.com/abcrm7N.png http://i.imgur.com/enzB0o9.png

Whoops I was comparing it with the 75t one. Adding another set of panels should did it though but then it wouldn't fit in the VAB (yeah, it's that tall). There are quarter-sized panels.

Polished the new fairings: They're very lightweight but still has 90 parts. Edit: lowered the part count of my rocket a bit and lengthened the fairings: These fairings are larger than the ones used by Rune's 100t LV.

Rune makes pretty awesome stock fairings: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/80438-Genral-Liftersâ„¢-boosters-to-cover-every-need%21-%285-10-20-30-50-75-100mT-to-LKO%29 And so does Ravenchant: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/77162-Perun-Launch-Vehicles-v1-7-now-with-Ariane-Proton-workalikes Stock fairings are heavy and have a high part count, so watch out for that.

Vall's probably my favorite moon. It's so beautiful there especially if you have visual mods installed.

The shuttle loses control when the booster explode. About the Shuttle-C: it doesn't work in 0.24 and I don't have the time to fix it.

I need help naming my future shuttle program. The current one called the Odysseus STS, so I thinking of naming the successor Telemachus, but it doesn't sound as bold as the former. Maybe Ulysses?

So I was trying out Spaceplane Plus and noticed how some of the wings would make great fairings. Should enough, the the Type B panel (the one that attaches with its narrow end) can be used as a fairing with little adverse aerodynamic effects. I think this is because they only produce lift along the longer portion, unlike the current stock ones. Very crude test rocket: Half fairing test: ^Damn radial decoupler bug. Hope this still works in 0.25!

It's going to hurt even more when you have to get them tightened, but I never had to take pain meds when I had braces.

Why not call it Mun Beetle? After all, a beetle is not a true bug.

Coming soon to a Pico spacecraft dealer near you!

How do you guys like the look of this? Sorry about the fairing, it's as small as I could get it.

The first stock propeller planes only had a single engine as I was trying to get it to even fly. The early propellers were very unstable and couldn't produce enough thrust to takeoff (back in 0.21). After the reaction wheels got buffed again (0.24), I was finally able to get the plane to takeoff. Unfortunately, my lack of experience in wheel bearings meant that they only had rudimentary "dry" bearings, which were much more unstable than the current ones by Sgt_flyer. Nonetheless, it does work, but the propeller would jam if it went too fast or too slow but can usually be unjammed by briefly rotating the propeller the opposite direction. I can post the lastest prototype with Sgt_flyer's latest dry bearing and the original craft.