Your most awesome SpacePlane

[Jawstin]

Wow what graphics mods are those?

• Distant Object enhancement
  
• PlanetShine
  
• WindowShine
  
• WIP EVE (Only the clouds are on, I disabled terrain, city lights and the atmosphere)
  
• Scatterer
  

[ostrich]

The seagull http://imgur.com/a/ugQM9 my first ssto.

[Overfloater]

Here it is:

Spaceplane mk-I

>:-)

[Jawstin]

Here it is:

http://i.imgur.com/GRNtXJs.png

Spaceplane mk-I

>:-)

Is this the first Spaceplane you have made ?! I love your work man

[SpaceplaneAddict]

Hauls 10.6 Tons to LKO. Soon to be used in my career save

[Lord DC]

A random throwing together of parts I literally called "... EVEN IS THIS THING?", it is designed to carry North Kerbin weapons, and it somehow flies controllable, sortof...

actually, itwould be a AN-225 lookalike I constructed, flew like a dream, more stable than a strut, and could fly for hours

Now? it needs ridiculous engines AND on top of tha-

wait.

since thermojets in KSPI are OP with antimatter, ad since you can pay to fill up a container of it, I think i'll replace the boring turbofans with a new high tech solution...

Now i can finally repurpose it as a bomber.

Edited September 17, 2015 by Lord DC

[Slam_Jones]

Most awesome... well... my most useful would be the Triton SSTO I made back in 0.90. Could carry station modules up to LKO and help attach them.

Best looking would probably be this one: (honestly forgot what it was called, but it takes 10 Kerbals to LKO and back, and potentially a quick stop by the Mun if fuel is managed right)

Edited September 17, 2015 by Slam_Jones
Grammar, spelling

[Goomblah]

This one is more of "i don't even" than awesome, but it's pretty cool in its own goofy way:

I got bored a few days ago and decided to build a tiny SSTO. This little guy can reach LKO and land safely, has excellent in-atmo control, and has a stupidly high TWR. The only hard part about flying it is keeping the throttle low enough until you really want to floor it - this thing will go hypersonic at sea level at 2/3 throttle, no problem; that is, until it melts at 1400m/s. Its design abuses part clipping and magical RAPIER exhaust, but is kraken-free under all circumstances, and the CoM barely moves throughout its flight.

Now, such a small aircraft can't possibly do anything useful, can it?

Well, it sort of can - it can deploy satellites!

Although putting satellites in an 80x80 orbit isn't really all that useful by the time you have RAPIERs unlocked, it's still fun to fly and relatively harmless; the total cost to deploy this "pancake satellite" was 188 kerdits, plus 2900 for the satellite itself. With Tweakscale this thing could actually be semi-viable, with a smaller RAPIER and some ion engines (or possibly a tiny nuke), it could go out and put even smaller Tweakscaled satellites wherever you want for very little money. I'm also considering sending a sciencey version out to Laythe, so it can deorbit, land, scoop up some science from a biome, the return to orbit and dock with a research station.

It's still really silly though, lol.

[KerrMü]

I like this one a lot. My Shinden:

in second place:

This is an older version, and I have replaced the spikes with rapiers since then. But I like this pic.

[Zucal]

[Jon144]

I don't think posts here have to be dedicated SSTOs so here is my space shuttle. (Only an actual space-plane on orbit and landing)

As far as actual space-plane SSTOs go the best one I have made was back in a far older version of KSP before cargo bay doors or Mk3 parts were added to the game. I still built my own stock rotor mechanism for stock cargo bay doors.

Edited September 18, 2015 by Jon144

[mintme]

Latest Model SSTO - Hertz C2

Edited September 19, 2015 by mintme
updated video.