The new "Flea" booster - have you found a use for it?

[Draconiator]

It wasn't all that useful in Career because it doesn't have too much fuel in the thing to begin with. I think I used it for some altitude records and that's it. In my Sandbox save, I haven't used it at all, for the reason stated above and the fact there are much better parts available. I could see it being used as Seperatrons on some huge rockets though.

[Eric S]

The only thing I use it for was very short hops to biomes near KSC.

[stibbons]

My career game is still pretty small stuff - Remotetech satellites and tourist flybys around the Kerbin system. Still getting a lot of use out of Fleas to give those lifters their first little kick off the launch pad.

[Firedtm]

found it to be really really useful in early game, the thing is a real power house

[Reddeyfish]

you could also (theoretically) use it as a launch booster on the runway for a gigantic SSTO. (stick it on the back of the engines with a stack seperator)

It would also be a way for you to obtain the 'in flight over <biome>' science on a really, REALLY early-game rover. (as in 'two command pods strapped end-to-end' early-game rover)

Edited May 11, 2015 by Reddeyfish

[Bill Phil]

They can be used as kick stages once in space, or as boosters to squeeze just a bit extra payload...

[bonyetty]

Drop pod engines for deorbit. Or space debris maker when you detach drop pod prograde and light the flea retrograde into the launch ship. Yep did the latter before the former.

[Sky_walker]

It has an excellent TWR, actually: The best of all solid rocket boosters with exception of Separotron. So if you want a kick at some point - just use Fleas.

[Freshmeat]

The made the difference on my first Mun rocket. With 3 Fleas, it sat at 139 t on launchpad, and had just enough TWR to get up for the Reliants to do by themselves.

[Endersmens]

Regex found a use for them... http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/120638-Found-a-good-use-for-Fleas-a-bit-later-in-career-mode

[gmiddlemass]

It's just a shame they are so short and fat in design... surely with the new aerodynamics they would be better looking and possibly more useful if they were the same diameter as the Oscar-B but taller?

[TimePeriod]

I stick them below liquid engines with other boosters on the outside, at a fraction cost I can get a lot of dV early on.

[Gargamel]

Built a shuttle, and when the TWR on the boosters was too much, I fired off the fleas so they would end at the same time. That balanced out the thrust issues I was having.

[Sochin]

What about using it as a PAM (Payload Assist module)?

[michaelsteele3]

It's pretty good for burning fleas. Warning: Do not use near flammable objects!

[Spatzimaus]

Air-to-ground missiles.

Seriously, they're really handy for blowing up the KSC. You can pack a lot of them onto a plane's wings, and you don't need a long burn to accelerate to killing speeds. Granted, one won't do enough damage to take down the big buildings...

[mrclucks]

I use it as a quick boost off the launch pad

[Xaver]

I use it like the launch escape tower.

[Lord Aurelius]

They work great for fireworks.

[Ulzgoroth]

Strapped a couple to the sides of my first-stage thrust-limited BACC in order to give it a quick kick off the launch pad.

[Slugy]

It fills a gap nicely for giving smaller rockets a nice swift start to their flight.

[whiterafter]

I've added them as bombs to spice up planes I'm too lazy to fly places

[problemecium]

I second the opinion that the Flea would have been better if they'd kept "normal" booster proportions and perhaps made it a Size 0 part, not only since it would look better but since, well, we don't have any Size 0 SRBs.

[quasarrgames]

Missiles.

1 part, not that big, devilishly fast...

> : )

[fjarandag]

They make nice side boosters for an LV-T45 (which only has 17 tons thrust at ASL).

They don't burn for long, but that initial push makes a big difference.

The lateral separators are more expensive than the tiny booster, but i see them survive the fall often.