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No one's mentioned the wiki campaigns? See my sig.

SSI would like to publish this in our catalog as an ESU if its ok. see my sig for details.

You can land a heavy Proton using the VTOL BJE and bursting your Rockomaxes to safe landing using the landing legs. If you are near empty on fuel you should be able to land on Kerbin using the BJE alone.

Thank you for testing it! If you get a chance, let me know how it does!

The all-new SSI Proton T has been added to the General Catalog!

This is the SSI Proton T. The first official variant of the Proton class, the Proton T is a crew transport shuttlecraft useful for those jaunts between orbiting targets and your closest planetary base. It is most likely capable of round trips to Minmus from Kerbin, but our test pilots have all taken a temporarily leave of absence to serve in the Kerbal Space Program (like those guys ever really need more test pilots) so we can't certify it as a Type 3A yet. We can only surmise the dearth of test pilots to be because KSP snacks are government funded and thus unlimited in supply, and well, at SSI we have to ration what few boxes of snacks we have left after resupplying a few stranded SSI test pilots on Duna who bravely stepped up and into our classified Proton H test program. The Proton Class Is the latest series of shuttlecraft designed by SSI engineers to meet your auxillary spacecraft needs within a planet's SOI and its surrounding stations and natural satellites. Heavier variants are even intended to allow one-way trips to other planets, and if refueled, able to make it back to Kerbin. The Proton T: Is a Type-3 shuttlecraft, meaning this Proton will send three orbiting Kerbals above 120km to KSC and back without refueling. Certified by SSI engineers, it is ready for inclusion in the SSI General Catalog. Enjoy! Part Count: 65 Weight: 16.62 tons of Larry, Moe, and Curly (and sometimes Shemp if he cares to strap on a spacesuit and bolt on a command chair to the roof) Fuel Remaining at 110km orbit: 200+ Real Time to Orbit: 12 Minutes MEDIAFIRE: SSI Proton T (Type-3 Shuttlecraft) Craft File Controls: 1. Basic Jet VTOL engine (BJE) 2. Two Rockomax 48-7Ss VTOL assist rockets 3. TurboJet engine (TJE) 4. RAPIER 5. RAPIER mode switch 6. Nuclear space egine (space engine) Flight Profile: 1. Take off using BJE and turn on the Rockomaxes after BJE warmup for a boost to get airborne. 2. Turn on TJE and RAPIER for climb. 3. 70 deg until 20km 4. 0 deg until 27km 5. 15 deg until 40km (TJE flamesout near 30.5km), turn RAPIER off to restart TJE, then turn RAPIER back on until next TJE flameout.) (Keep toggling RAPIER on each TJE flameout.) (Cease using RAPIER above 34km) (Orbital Speed: 2280m/s by 40km) 6. 0 deg until 70km orbit (TJE flameout by 42.4km. Decrease throttle 1 tick at a time until TJE restart. Do this all the way into orbit) 7. Circularize with the Nuke. 8. Land on airless bodies with the rockomaxes as needed. If anyone can fly the Proton T on a round trip to Minmus and back, please let us know! If you have questions or comments about this latest craft from SSI, please post below!

For those rocket building companies out there, we'd love the ability to simply connect to a shared VAB and SPH file location via KSP so as we develop ships, they can be automatically updated and shared within KSP between other developers on the fly.

and im taking forever to switch to my server. i ran into a problem... my modem is hosed, as in its not reliable since it seems to "forget" its port forwards from time to time (which is why the SSI KMP server seems to have a 90% uptime). argh. so now im looking for a new modem, or a cheap server solution. sorry about the wait-like-molasses godarklight.

Thank you! I've been taking a much needed break to focus on family activities. I'm working on releasing the Proton T just as soon as I can sit down at my home computer and hit a few buttons.

wow, just wow. great job on it! looks a lot like the SSI X-5 (secret design, no one knows) but proof of convergence theory for sure.

The Proton H is still undergoing flight trials to record the optimal flight profile. Once done it will be released. I've just been a lil busy with a new baby in the house. Prob by the end of this month I'll release the Proton H and T series. In fact, the T series is already releasable... I might just put it out sometime this weekend.

Fyi. We're still going strong!

You bet, I'll look into it! We have a number of prototypes, just none certified yet but certainly a number of them are certifiable.

Fixed Jian brochure link.

Looks good. Ill add it to the SSI General Catalog soon. Until a craft can do a shuttlecraft run (120k undock, land at KSC, and fly back up to dock at 120k), it should just be called a shuttle, as you already do now.

SSI has now published the Jian in the SSI General Catalog!

We have now published the all new SSI Jian (Type-1 Shuttlecraft) by Narcosis in this thread's OP. Download it today!

Where is it?

First mini K-Drive. Posted in the Tyrene thread. Worthy of a wiki mention? Dunno.

I should probably post the first miniaturized K-Drive craft for posterity. The SSI Positron.

SSI is checking out your ship too. Let us know when you get the Falcon IV up.

The JiÄÂn is now SSI certified! Great job! Catalog publication coming soon. See http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/41898-Shuttlecraft-Systems-Inc-%28SSI%29-Your-Auxiliary-Spacecraft-Company!?p=989952&viewfull=1#post989952

It shows promise. Rip off half or more of the wings, and try to limit your parts to bare bones, and think about shrinking up the footprint, and you will have a shuttlecraft candidate worthy of SSI inclusion. Feel free to submit when ready. See my sig for the link.

Better than all the above, build a Kraken drive mini ssto and land on Eve and come back to Kerbin.

SSI here and we love your design. Great job! Feel free to submit it to our main thread anyways for consideration. If interested in joining SSI as an engineer, let us know too in that thread. Don't worry if it can't make shuttlecraft certification (undock from 120k, land at KSC, redock at 120k). If anything, it will certainly be featured as an SSI aeroshuttle if interested in including it in our catalog. Read the thread in my sig below, read the OP for submission guidelines. We'd love to showcase it. Again, congrats! And yes, we love small SSTOs. All kinds. The 鶼 JiÄÂn Superlight SSTO adopted as the SSI Jian (Type-1 Aeroshuttle) would be a worthy addition to our catalog.