Constructing functional space rocket with only solid fuel (srb)

[Pawelk198604]

Constructing functional space rocket with only solid fuel (srb) does you tried it

[HoloYolo]

I've thought about building an orbital SRB rocket, and even thought making a space station with SRBs as the launch and rendezvous stage.

[SRV Ron]

Explorer One was launched from a Redstone missile that then staged a cluster of spin stabilized Solid fuel sounding rockets to place it in orbit. You can play with the concept using the FASA mod using its pre built real world craft files.

[G'th]

The thing about using an SRB-only type rocket is that you have to precisely set up the dV for each stage (and as such, make a separate stage for each and every burn) and hit the timing right on the nose. Scott Manley did it to get the Mun, though I believe he didn't bother establishing any parking orbits as it was a Quickest landing on the Mun and Back type challenge.

[Pawelk198604]

The one thing i don't understand why i cannot find the 1st stage after separation, i attached chutes to SRBs so it should land on their own so why i cannot recover it.

[Mat2ch]

The one thing i don't understand why i cannot find the 1st stage after separation, i attached chutes to SRBs so it should land on their own so why i cannot recover it.

Hello Pawel,

the physics range is in atmosphere only 25 km. So if anything is farther out it gets deleted. So don't bother packing chutes on the stages.

Oh, and one parachute for the SRB is usually enough.

[Barefoot Friar]

25? Are you missing a decimal there? I thought it was 2.5, not 25.

[HoloYolo]

25? Are you missing a decimal there? I thought it was 2.5, not 25.

It's actually 22.5 km

[cantab]

25? Are you missing a decimal there? I thought it was 2.5, not 25.

One of the recent KSP updates enlarged it.

[HoloYolo]

The distance render is 22.5km for your guys information.

[Streetwind]

All-solid rockets to orbit are reasonably easy in stock KSP, especially now that they added the flea. Sure, it's awful in a vacuum, but it's small, and therefore makes a good upper stage.

Back in my .25 save with RemoteTech, I had a smallsat launcher that pretty much went all the way to orbit on solid motors, depending on the payload on top. Sometimes a little short of circularizing, sometimes a little past it, sometimes not circularizing at all but shooting for a high apoapsis. The satellite would then use its own onboard liquid fuel to assume its intended target orbit. I must have put up close to 20 sats with those rockets, both for contracts to make money, and for buildign/extending the RemoteTech commsat network. Due to the lack of a suitable solid upper stage from stock, I used one from a mod instead.

[Mat2ch]

All-solid rockets to orbit are reasonably easy in stock KSP, especially now that they added the flea. Sure, it's awful in a vacuum, but it's small, and therefore makes a good upper stage.

Back in my .25 save with RemoteTech, I had a smallsat launcher that pretty much went all the way to orbit on solid motors, depending on the payload on top. Sometimes a little short of circularizing, sometimes a little past it, sometimes not circularizing at all but shooting for a high apoapsis. The satellite would then use its own onboard liquid fuel to assume its intended target orbit. I must have put up close to 20 sats with those rockets, both for contracts to make money, and for buildign/extending the RemoteTech commsat network. Due to the lack of a suitable solid upper stage from stock, I used one from a mod instead.

Sounds a bit like the Vega rocket...

[Bev7787]

I have a SRB only rocket that can lift a satellite into suborbit. The satellite has its own engine. I then return the stage that reaches space

[Sharpy]

Some kind of engine (even Vernor!) is needed to make any somewhat precise adjustments of the orbit, plus SRBs don't do gravity turn neatly, but just yesterday some 100m/s of *radial* burn brought my two pods + engine into orbit - the SRBs created a stupidly high apoapsis without reaching the orbit.

[Red Iron Crown]

Obligatory Abyssal Lurker video:

All-SRB mission to Minmus and back, done with no hands! Epic skill on display.