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Experimental All Liquid Fuel SSTO


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I wasn't planning on this design working so I don't have many screenshots. My objective was to make an all LF SSTO. This happened while I was testing to see at what altitude the Nerv engine starts to become useful in terms of TWR and ISP. Turns out the answer is: much lower than expected, around 10km altitude. It Uses 2 Turboramjets and 2 Nerv's. The Nerv's are activated early to help squeeze more thrust out of the jets. It ends up going into low Kerbin orbit with around 1,700 m/s of Dv.

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HI I'm trying to accomplish something similar to your plane, with a MK2 crew cabin.

However, once the jets shutdown and i'm left with only the 2 nervs, i start losing altitude even if i keep my pitch to 5° or so.

THe craft mass is quite similar I think, mine is 23.3 Tons

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