Aldan: mid career biome hopper with style

[1greywind]

The Aldan

Stock mid career biome hopper for medium-low gravity airless worlds. With launch kit to orbit included

Stats:

Parts count: 119 (209 parts with launch kit)

Full weight: 74.353 ton

Dry weight: 24.913 ton

dV: 3509 m/s

Acceleration: 4.8 - 13.6 m/s*s

Action groups:

1 - toggle solar panels

2 - toggle ladders

7, 8, 9, 0 - toggle lights

Max landing vertical speed no more than 10 m/s! Rapid unplanned disassembly warning if exceeded!

Launch kit ascent profile is simple and reminds pre 1.0 times: straight up to 15 km on full throttle, then start slow gravity turn, circularize orbit with Aldan's engines.

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DOWNLOAD LINKS:

Aldan biome hopper .craft

Aldan biome hopper with launch kit .craft

[Chris_2]

What is this? A craft that looks nice and is actually useful?!?

[Kagame]

Very, very nice! Particularly love the launch vehicle's simplicity. If it were me, I'd waste days trying to launch it with a single Kerbodyne xD

[problemecium]

^ Same here, except I'd try to build a humongous single-stage lift rocket xD

[1greywind]

@Chris_2: Tanks! And this thing is made from only tier II career parts, so I may upgrade it to use drills and ISRU later.

@Kagame, @parameciumkid: Well, I have big experience with launching oversized payloads to space:

And this approach "build rocket around payload" still works with new aero in 1.0.x - the only limitation is "fly straight up" until you pass sound barrier and lower atmosphere.

[Goodle...]

Looks real good!