Giotto and Ariane 1 Replica

[SaturnianBlue]

I've been working on modded crafts recently, so I thought that it would be good to build a stock replica, so here is Giotto, ESA's first cometary probe, the first to flyby comets twice, to use an earth flyby, and took the first detailed pictures of a cometary nucleus. This replica also contains a 3 stage Ariane 1 rocket, with a 4 engine/4fin stage, and a thin 2nd and 3rd stages. I've made this replica for only 181 parts, so performance will be vastly better than other high count replicas. Clamshell Fairings were used in the album below.

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Stats:

63,287 Kg total, 5376 Vaccum D/v, 1380 kg probe, 834m/s probe rocket, 225m/s forward translation, rocket liftoff TWR is 1.29. 60,556 funds.

Flight Instructions:

- 100% thrust, SAS, liftoff!

- Be wary of potential instability, being a tall and skinny rocket.

- Turn 10 degrees East around 1km up.

- Stage stages as needed, go into a elliptical orbit around Kerbin, and then you can use Giotto's main engine (IRL a SRB, but since there are no SRBs at .625M, I've gone for a LFO rocket) to reach interplanetary space if you wish.

Thanks for reading, leave some rep if you like this replica!

Edited August 5, 2015 by SaturnianBlue