The S.A.E.V.

[MoobsiusMaximus]

The SAEV is a small craft consisting mainly of a tri-fuel tank design with fuel lines feeding into a vectoring engine at the bottom of a standard main capsule module design.

It uses 6 solid rocket boosters for take-off and it then switches to three 1 tank engines for leaving most of the atmosphere; the SAEV then switches to orbital mode detaching 3 winglets and the atmospheric escape engines/tanks. The SAEV then lights up the main engine and escapes the atmosphere and gets into a 1,500,000m orbit with around 1 1/3 tanks left for deorbiting. Finally the lander section of the SAEV activates detaching the tanks and main engine modules then 3 remaing winglets are exposed for an accurate landing on kerbal.

S.A.E.V. track history:

Successful takeoffs: 57/68

Successful staging breakoffs: 56/57

Successful orbits: 56/56

Successful re-entries: 53/56

Successful landings: 47/56

Overall i love my S.A.E.V. <3 , Also pics and a .craft coming SOON!

[Anomalous_Matter]

I made a rocket based off your inverted-tricoupler design:

It\'s a genius idea. The rocket handles like a dream and has almost all of the top stage\'s fuel left for orbital maneuvers, with no debris in orbit. I\'d love to see your .craft to compare them

[tinfoyle]

Sounds ingenious, I want to see a picture or a .craft! I\'m not too great with understanding your text explaination but at least Jeb\'s got the gist. Gonna try the backwards=tricoupler idea.....

[HOC]

An inverted tri-coupler! Brilliant! I can\'t believe that I had never thought of it myself...

Thank you

[MoobsiusMaximus]

I made a rocket based off your inverted-tricoupler design:

It\'s a genius idea. The rocket handles like a dream and has almost all of the top stage\'s fuel left for orbital maneuvers, with no debris in orbit. I\'d love to see your .craft to compare them

Your ship is pretty much the same as mine except i have less RCS tanks on the top stage.