Work-In-Progress: "Tylo Ugly" Lander/SSTO

[Mister Dilsby]

I'm spending my time prior to V1 testing out some concepts for a Jool-5 attempt. Here's a recent sandbox test of a Tylo lander that may be of interest. Ignore the transport craft in the images below, it's just a stand-in and I hyperedited it to Tylo orbit. In the actual Jool-5 mission I intend to put all my landers in Mk3 cargo bays on a large cruiser. Here's my plan for the Laythe lander.

Design Notes:

Loaded Mass: 26.8t

Crew: One

Main Engines: 3x LV-N

TWR: 0.95 (Tylo orbit)

An Incomplete List of Thing I Hate About This Ship:

Mk1 lander can on top of Rocko-32 tank is ugly and disproportionate

Landing legs stuck on girders to clear giant LV-N bells

Ladders are a complete kludge (needed to get down/around the landing legs)

It's ugly. Did I mention it's ugly?

It will get even uglier when I put a Science Jr. on it.

A Complete List of Things I Like About this Ship:

It fits in a Mk3 cargo bay.

It lands on Tylo and returns to orbit in one stage.

Much praise for the Constant Altitude descent method, without which this POS would not have a snowball's chance on Moho of landing. Enjoy!

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[TurtleX]

Nice! Looks useful...

[Mister Dilsby]

Nice! Looks useful...

Thanks! Being non-atmospheric it should work fine in 1.0 as well. I'll just need to add an equipment bay for the science and hope that additional mass isn't a problem.