MooseontheLoose

Only if you brought the fuel and parts up first... 8) Finally a use for extra dV - use it later as extra gas on your deep space adventures!

Challenge complete! Only took 2 hours and change to get there and stabilize the orbit, but the brand new KPS-1 satellite is now safely in orbit!

Here's a bigass satellite launcher I made. It'll put the commsat into a stable orbit of ~200km and safely return the crew! It could probably safely reach 250km+ but my goal was a 200km insertion. First three stages are purely for vertical speed while the final stage is used to provide horizontal speed and orbit stabilization. Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/Mo7qn#4gDyb