Just make it BIGGER.... RSS to Mars

[ColKlonk]

How on Earth (sorry!! Kerbin..) does one even get a remote satellite to Mars (sandbox mode), never mind a manned.. mission.

Actually a manned mission is easy... the satellite bit is a problem.

To get anything to fit into a decent compact rocket is a headache beyond normality... what do we do ??

We need to scan Mars and its moons for resources, before we send settlement rockets..!!

Well... KlonkWorks made a plan... they just made the ship bigger, a combined manned/satellite delivery test platform...

and platform it is... It's just a big disc with attachments... Testing is going well.

The Disc encompasses a smaller fuel tank and TAC tanks.

Below the disc (naturally) engines and main fuel tank, plus heat shield for aero-braking

Above the disc is everything else, Satellites(with big blerry aerials), Living 1/4s, Alcor, TAC, Scoop, Batteries...etc.

I was thinking of a deckchair or two so the crew can 'sun' themselves..

Orbit testing... Just so you know who your sponsors are

Platform doing it's thing.... oh Yeah!!

Edited May 26, 2015 by ColKlonk

[Motokid600]

Holy probes batman. Lol, cool stuff. But I gotta ask... What's with the intake scoop?

[ColKlonk]

But I gotta ask... What's with the intake scoop?

Bussard Scoops (fuel converter ?)... yeah! I know they're horizontal, but that's because our engineers have managed to bend the electro-magnetic field upwards (company top secret ).

Not only that, they managed to combine the whole fuel conversion system into the Scoop.. but they couldn't reduce the mass of the combined system - pity, but you can't win them all.

I'll try later with no fancy fuels system, and the ProcCom mod (this has tickled my fancy )