MK2 Stockalike Expansion: Dorey - The Science Fish

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Meet Dorey, a two person spacefishship. Has nearly all science (no Science Jr) and 4km/s Edit: If you are using the latest version of the mod (which it turns out I wasn't... You'll only have around 3.2km/s due to the increased thrust and fuel use of the pluto engine) Delta-V. Because of the single Nuke engine it will not quite do all the moons, but enough that it can make itself useful.

Load it up fling it off somewhere and float around like a fish... in space. Or take the wings off and have some less Delta-V without affecting CoM.

It doesn't really do atmospheric flight... But does come complete with a launcher, albeit a crap one. Launchers aren't really my thing. But I also feel bad handing this out and not providing a proven launch platform to get it into orbit. It does not like large AoA... But if you keep it close to prograde it will behave itself quite well enough. Best to keep it in orbit and er do science with it. The Nuke's attachment node will be inaccessible due to fairings - if you attach to the Nuke the craft will explode when you stage.

RCS is darn close to perfectly balanced, and CoM doesn't move (well not more than a few centimetres), and is more or less at the docking port - so if you decided to tug it somewhere it's not going to affect weight distribution too much.

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Landing: Land on the tail, and then "knock it onto the landing legs" with either reaction wheels or RCS. Toggling the Gear will also toggle the Vernor thrusters with these (and the other RCS ports the Gear toggles) you will be able to right the craft again so that you can point the pointier end at space and go again. If you're not on a flat, it can be a bit finicky to get back to vertical, so just get it to 45 degrees and leave some nuke dust in your wake.

Action Groups

1 - Science!

5 - Docking (toggles docking port, toggles solar panels, toggles docking light

9 - Toggles ladder

0 - Toggles solar panel

Parts 71 (with launcher)

Comments and feedback welcomed.

Edited June 20, 2015 by FlipNascar