KSS OBERTH SCIENCE VESSEL (Near-replica from Star Trek)

[whoshotdk]

KSS OBERTH SCIENCE VESSEL

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NOTES

Heres a Kerbalized stock Oberth class starship from Star Trek. After seeing this epic ship by Redshift OTF, I decided to have a go at a more modest vessel.

With nice shiny lights, reasonable part count, a crew capacity of 51 Kerbals and a cargo bay that contains a useful science pod.

To get a correctly oriented navball, activate (Control from here) the command pod that sits just behind the RCS tank on the aft of the top section.

The science pod contains every experiment apart from the atmospheric nose cone and has its own RCS thrusters with enough juice to de-orbit from a low/medium Kerbin orbit. Twin parachutes means it’ll land safely on Kerbin.

The center of thrust is slightly off-center to the center of mass, but nothing that SAS cant’ handle. TWR is pretty bad but not enough to make me want to kill myself.

Although it’s probably possible to launch the Oberth from Kerbin's surface, I haven’t tried and instead edited it into orbit. If anyone cares to try and showcase their launch here I’ll be bloody impressed.

STATISTICS

Subject to change.

Tonnage: 42t dry

Parts: 161 (144 without science pod)

Kerbin Orbital TWR (full tanks): 0.12

Delta V: 3,763 m/s

CONTROLS

[4] Toggle science pod radio antenna

[6] Toggle lights 1

[7] Toggle lights 2

[8] Toggle docking port shielding

[9] Toggle bay doors

[0] Undock / decouple science pod

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Edited April 3, 2015 by whoshotdk
Actually has room for 51 Kerbals, not 50

[Guest]

Wow! Really good job on this!

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Very nice, I really like the K-7 replica.

[Yukon0009]

Excellent!

[Azimech]

Beautiful!

[Commander Jebidiah]

Brilliant

[whoshotdk]

Thanks!

[inigma]

Can I catalog this for SSI (see link in my sig)?

[whoshotdk]

Go right ahead Inigma, thanks!