Adeline Rocket

[DiamondExcavater]

Check out my Blog where I showcased my craft here.

Enjoy, and sorry for short thread, but I am not going to repost a whole page...

[Columbia]

Wow, that is just.. awesome. Realistic as hell.

How did you manage getting the airbrakes not to deploy?

[Motokid600]

Looks great. That's a lot of dry mass though. What would you say is the LKO payload capacity?

[DiamondExcavater]

Looks great. That's a lot of dry mass though. What would you say is the LKO payload capacity?

For only the first stage, it should (When I tried) get you into a very close orbit, most likely sub orbital, but its got around 2,800 ms-1 Delta V which should be an orbit if done right, but the heavier the rocket the lower the TWR which means orbiting is harder, i haven't tested maximum, but what i have done on the satellite launcher i made, can easily get to the mun

I'll get back to you on that one and see the limit, but play around and see if it's needed, also I clipped 3 engines on the engine stage because the flame looked better and it improved the TWR

How did you manage getting the airbrakes not to deploy?

Not sure what you mean, but I removed all control over the air brakes as to only use them as brakes. Do you really think this is realistic?

[DiamondExcavater]

What would you say is the LKO payload capacity?

IF you were to only use first stage liquid tank as is (no resizing) and tried to get that in orbit then here are stats

-a 54 Ton payload (not sure why it should be this heavy, equivalent to a big red and a half rockomax white tank) will get you around 2,000 ms-1 Delta V, this isn't enough for orbit, but TWR is 1.12 (max is 2.27) not that fast

-a 36 Ton payload (1 big red) will get you 2369 ms-1 Delta V which is marginal for orbit, but note this is only the first stage, and it it no meant to be a STTO, It is safe to say a payload around 34 tons will get into orbit with the one stage...

but the rocket in real life only achieves sub-orbital...

The Payload (including second stage engine and fuel) have a mass of 32 Tons, I recommend getting K.E.R

Edited October 14, 2015 by DiamondExcavater

[Motokid600]

Yea sorry it was a dumb question to ask how much payload capacity the initial stage has

Cool stuff I may try my hand at something similar. Hopefully in the future we can fly to orbit and simultaneously return to the KSC.

[DiamondExcavater]

Cool, i tried stock version, but the shape is off...