Vega Rocket And Sentinel 2 Replica

[SaturnianBlue]

Here is my Replica of the Vega Rocket and Sentinel 2 spacecraft, which if all goes well, will launch on Jun 22nd. The Vega rocket is the lightweight rocket of Arianespace and ESA's workhorse, with 3 solid rocket stages and a small liquid 4th stage. Vega rockets can carry up to 2,500 kg to LEO. I've added the Sentinel 2 spacecraft, an Earth Observation spacecraft of ESA's Copernicus Program. It carries a Multi Spectral Instrument, with 13 spectral channels.

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This Replica clocks in at a lightweight 84 parts, and as a note for the 4th stage, i've set the thrust to 10 kilonewtons, but if you want the real thrust the actual AVUM stage has, quarter it. I've made it run off monoprop, as it has nice round tanks like the real Attitude and Vernier Upper Module. I've made the 3rd stage liquid fueled, because it had the nozzle shape like the real one, and for gameplay reasons, as it has around enough delta-V to reach suborbital, and one might want to shut down the engine before the apoapsis is too high.

Thank you for orbiting by!

Edited June 20, 2015 by SaturnianBlue

[clivman]

Nice- you might want to make the bottom stage a bit bigger though.

[SaturnianBlue]

Nice- you might want to make the bottom stage a bit bigger though.

Probably, the little lips out on the bottom of the BACC booster does screw up the width measurements. (Tweakscale and procederal parts make me happy when that happens )