KSP 1.04 STOCK ISRU Mammoth SSTO Explorer Almost Gran Tour

[astrobond]

"KSP 1.04 STOCK ISRU Mammoth SSTO Explorer Almost Gran Tour Mission Report"

Ship also called : B.O.B. (Bunch Of Bananas) !

Hi All

The mission ended today (2015/10/05)...

The B.O.B. successfully landed and refueled on Minmus, Moho, Gilly, Duna, Ike, Dres, Eeloo, Tylo, Laythe, Vall, Bop, Pol, The Mun and.... Kerbin

Bob and Jeb are 56 years olders but still alive and at home xD

The challenge was for me to make a STOCK ISRU SSTO Rocket, with two Kerbals onboard (one Pilot... to pilot the ship and one Scientist to restore Science modules), with full Sciences Experiments, fully reuseable, totally autonomous, able to manually reach and land on ALL non gas bodies in the Kerbol System but Eve (witch really need a specific ship...), and as "light" as possible xD

After some hours of bainstorming, testing, reading this excellent ksp forum... I ended with this ship:

The craft:

ISRU Mammoth SSTO Explorer.craft

Edit:If you want to test the ship, i made a modification on a Mk2 version: add 3 big fuel cells around the advanced reaction wheels inside the Mk3 cargo bay and remove 6 of the 8 PB-NUK, that will dramatically reduce the mining/refuelling time...

Just under 300t. ready to takeoff for the Minmus trip, 91 parts, 338,021 funds.

4860 max dV (using ore onboard) fully refueled, very good TWR and aerodynamics to handle every Kerbol bodies but Eve, and only one motor: the Mammoth !!!

No chutes, all landings "should" be done using the Mammoth only...

Mods used: KER, Precise nodes, (KOS is installed on my career save but not used on this ship).

And now albums with pictures and comments of the mission ^^

The "KSP 1.04 B.O.B. Almost Gran Tour Part 1" Album: From KSC to Minmus Mining/Refuelling.

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The "KSP 1.04 B.O.B. Almost Gran Tour Part 2" Album: Minmus to Moho surfaces with less than 4900dV was harder than i thought !

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The "KSP 1.04 B.O.B. Almost Gran Tour Part 3" Album: Moho to Gilly, more easy than part 2

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The "KSP 1.04 B.O.B. Almost Gran Tour Part 4" Album: Gilly to Duna/Ike.

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The "KSP 1.04 B.O.B. Almost Gran Tour Part 5" Album: Ike to Dres and Dres to Eeloo.

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The "KSP 1.04 B.O.B. Almost Gran Tour Part 6" Album: Eeloo to... Tylo xD

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The "KSP 1.04 B.O.B. Almost Gran Tour Part 7" Album: Tylo to Laythe direct...

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The "KSP 1.04 B.O.B. Almost Gran Tour Part 8" Album: Laythe to Vall and Vall to Bop

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The "KSP 1.04 B.O.B. Almost Gran Tour Part 9" Album: Bop to Pol and... to the Mun orbit !

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The "KSP 1.04 B.O.B. Almost Gran Tour Part 10" Album: Landing on The Mun, and back to Kerbin...

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Fly safe with Valentina

Edited October 5, 2015 by astrobond
The End !

[Mister Dilsby]

Very cool! I've been toying around with a similar concept. The Mammoth is one heck of an engine, isn't it?

[astrobond]

Thank's a lot Kuzzter

Yes, the Mammoth is really, really impressive !!!

This is my ksp 1.04 favourite engine ^^

(You can even make an EVE ssto with it Oo)

Edited September 23, 2015 by astrobond

[xebx]

Nice ship and your mission is going fine, well done !

I have a similar ship ssto isru with 1 mammoth and 4 aerospikes, 5900 m/s deltaV thanks to the aerospike vac ISP.

But you and cubinator have already launched or completed this type of mission, and after my Eeloo fast travel (stock) i want to try an upscaled version, so i'll go with a modded (tweakscale and srmt) Grand Tour featuring a LFO+Ion Mainship + LFO Lander.

Waiting for your next report.

PS : an engineer in the ship greatly increases the drills (and isru, not sure about this) efficiency, this allows a faster refuel, but most of the time you have to wait for next transfer window so it won't change a lot for a Grand Tour.

Edited September 24, 2015 by xebx

[astrobond]

Thank's a lot xebx

Yes i saw your ship on this forum... Very nice !!!

I'm looking forward to see your mission report

BTW thank's to cubinator who's first ISRU Jool 5 challenge report give me the idea to make this ship and try my B.O.B. almost gran tour too...

Fly safe with Valentina

[astrobond]

Hi all

Updated with new albums of Tylo and Laythe visits

Fly safe with Valentina !

[SpaceplaneAddict]

This has inspired me to create something like this with mk2 parts. 10/10, call IGN this guy has gone MLG

[xebx]

We are landing on the moons of Jool at the same time. You will probably complete it before me : my lander is on the way to Bop and Pol, your B.O.B have already landed on Bop.

And after that i'll have to land on Eeloo, Dres, etc, you have already done this part.

[astrobond]

We are landing on the moons of Jool at the same time. You will probably complete it before me : my lander is on the way to Bop and Pol, your B.O.B have already landed on Bop.

And after that i'll have to land on Eeloo, Dres, etc, you have already done this part.

Yes lol ^^

I will look in the sky to avoid a collision course beetween our ships !

BTW, not a lot of free time this Week-End so i'm not sure to finish my trip before you... Still Pol to land, a flybye to Vall to finish the jool 5 challenge contract, and the Mun to visit before returning to Kerbin ^^

[astrobond]

Hi all

Well, i don't know if i'm happy or sad, because this is the end of the B.O.B. Almost Gran Tour....

But...

Jeb and Bob made the job !!!

So i uploaded the numbers 9 and 10 albums

Fly safe with Valentina !

[cubinator]

BTW thank's to cubinator who's first ISRU Jool 5 challenge report give me the idea to make this ship and try my B.O.B. almost gran tour too...

You're welcome! Great job on 4800 m/s to Minmus, I barely managed it with 5300! Your ship is also prettier than mine. I wonder what else one could do with a ship like this, like make an interplanetary cargo ferry or something. That could be pretty useful for interplanetary space stations.