Thunder Storm - Did someone order an advanced SATO? 90 tons to LKO

[Roflcopterkklol]

I have been working on a new craft that is a bit more than just a SATO, i figured why just assist a shuttle to orbit when you could get it all the way there without any help?

But what started as a simple idea is now finished and i am proud to present the Fruits of my labour, Thunder and Storm or just Thunder Storm.

Thunder

Storm

Thunder Storm ASATO

Description: Thunder

Thunder is a heavy lifter capable of lifting craft up to 90 tons into LKO, It burns fuel evenly across the board, it is extremely stable in atmospheric flight and the design is made to work like clock work with its baby, Storm.

Description: Storm

Storm is an Interplanetary space plane with VTOL capabilities which has a choice of 3 propellants once in space, LFO for fast burns, spare LF for nuclear burning and Xenon gas for emergency situations (when you run out of the good juice basically), Boasting over 10,000m/s of delta V to play around with once in orbit what more could you ask for?

Action groups:

Storm:

1: Toggle Nuke

2: Toggle aero spikes

3: Toggle Dawn electric engines

4: Toggle VTOL engines

5: Toggle solar arrays

Thunder:

6: Toggle turbo jets

7: Toggle rapiers

8: Toggle rapier engine mode

9: Toggle aero spikes

10 : Toggle landing engines

Flight instructions:

First things first, Never use time warp under thrust and never put the brakes on while on the runway under thrust.

On launch pitch up to +40 degree and climb until 10km, at 10km bring the pitch down to +10 degree and gain speed until 1000m/s, at 1000m/s bring the pitch up to +25 degree and continue until at 20km.

At 20km hit action group 9 to toggle aero spikes, at 22km hit action group 8 to toggle rapier engine mode and at 26km hit action group 6 to turn off turbo jets, from here continue to orbit and adjust pitch as needed. Good luck and have fun.

Orbital flight instructions:

Once in orbit you will need to take control of Storm, decouple it and activate fuel flow on all the tanks (including wings) and make sure to look inside the craft so you can activate the 6 internal fuel tanks. Sorry but for some reason you can not disable fuel flow between Thunder and storm so it was the only option.

Download links: Part count 502 (Both craft together, 160 parts in Storm.)

http://www./download/ic1qb4bpf0gn822/Thunder+Storm++ASATO.craft

http://kerbalx.com/Roflcopterkklol/Thunder-Storm--ASATO-carrier

If you have an idea you want to see come true leave a comment saying what it is and i will try my best to accomplish the task, i seem to be low on projects now.

Edited May 23, 2015 by Roflcopterkklol

[SHiftER2O]

SATOS BABY!!! Have a nice rep

[Roflcopterkklol]

SATOS BABY!!! Have a nice rep

haha thanks man, ill be honest i am fairly glad its done, that thing was a nightmare to get working

[Roflcopterkklol]

Hmm should i make a smaller version of this craft? less parts and all that

[SHiftER2O]

Hmm should i make a smaller version of this craft? less parts and all that

I'd like to see you do that

[problemecium]

Pardon me but Google was no help - what's a SATO?

Single Airplane To Orbit?

Sepratron Assisted Take-Off...?

[SHiftER2O]

Pardon me but Google was no help - what's a SATO?

Single Airplane To Orbit?

Sepratron Assisted Take-Off...?

Shuttle Assist To Orbit good sir

[Roflcopterkklol]

I'd like to see you do that

Fair enough, ill try and do a craft like this that is under 250 parts

[xtoro]

Thunder Storm! Nice! We're pretty much on the same page huh? lol Here's some rep!

[Roflcopterkklol]

Thunder Storm! Nice! We're pretty much on the same page huh? lol Here's some rep!

Haha at least half way there