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Penumbera Rocket


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At first, my goal was to build the longest rocket and get it out of orbit range.

Using two small solid boosters on each large fuel tank to support its weight at the start of lift off.

There's a decoupler on the bottom of the main liquid booster to keep rocket's weight from crunching and damaging the booster. It comes right off at first stage.

After all of the small boosters run out, the rocket has enough velocity and height to fire its main liquid booster to carry the weight as gravity grew thin.

(Will update later with a picture.)

Penumbera Rocket can reach over 100Km before all of the fuels from 8 large fuel tanks runs out with 2900Kmps velocity.

However, I came up with a trick to squeeze out another velocity before switching to my final stage. Using centrifugal force from Pod and Yawmaster-2000 RCS. Penumbera would spin so fast that G-force for the pilots had maxed out the meter. Then it was time to activate the last staging decoupler and fire away the last remaining fuel.

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