Giggleplex777

Launch relays coming soon. Anyone want to try to replicate this launch?

That would explain all that smoke.

He probably wanted to see some expensive fireworks.

Reincarnation of the N1 engine (the first stage)!

4 minutes.

Is anyone going to watch the maiden flight of Orbital's Antares rocket? Hopefully, it wouldn't be postponed again by the weather. Success!

Crap...

No, it looks like he has 3 of them, which in total weigh 0.3 tons and has a vacuum Isp of 300, whereas a LV-909 weighs 0.5 tons and has a vacuum Isp of 390. What makes his setup even more inefficient is that thy are angled, therefore wasting about a third of their trust sideways.

I usually use 4 thrusters and 2 radial RCS tanks. I seem to never run out.

0.5 staging like a pro! Before Jettison the booster engines! After

Why does it use 24-77s for the upper stage? The LV-909 is better.

I used debug but radial attachment point allows noclipping without debug.

There's a LV-T45 in there too.

Uh oh...

Yes, they are. The only problems are that it reduces the total delta-v of the rocket and is not powerful enough to land by itself (unless you add more engines and fuel), but comfort over performance.

I got the inspiration from the Dragonrider concept (or Soyuz, I guess). Hiding the engines inside looked better then on the side. Edit: Here's the orbital stage of the Lite and Lite+ variants. It has about 1300 m/s and 1500 m/s of delta-v respectively. It's for LEO missions. Here's the orbit stage(s) of the Medium and Medium+ variants. It has about 2500 m/s and 2800 m/s of delta-v respectively. This allows it to do SLS-style Munar missions. And here's the Heavy and Heavy+ orbital stages, with about 4300 m/s and 4500 m/s of delta-v respectively. It's designed for interplanetary missions.

Kerbals like soft landings after a long flight.

You can remap the screenshot key. I remapped mine to 1 and remapped action group 1 to f1.

I think my CEV has better performance and more features than yours, but it doesn't have recovery parachutes. Edit: Here's the "Lite+" variant (I made a whole series of them while the forums where down ). It weighs 95 tons and has the following features (and a few more): -Probed command pod -Backup parachute -Soft landing retro rockets inside the command pod (also serves as a secondary abort system) -docking light -Backup battery and solar panel -1.5 stage core booster -Cool-looking LES tower Edit2: Here's a soft landing system demo

I must do this challenge with my Falcon 9!

I asked when the forums came online. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/24651-Rocket-Builders

Do I have to post my attempt again? Oh fine, here it is: Pre-launch. Dropping off the payload while in orbit. Re-entry. Preparing to land. Landed without chutes 2.2 km from the pad. The payload weighs 0.1545 tons.

That burger rover again!

Wow, what a copycat.

The only thing my orbiter lacks that yours have are lights!