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[Matuchkin]

33 minutes ago, DrLicor said:

And shuttles, but only if they look super awesome

Yeah, that too. But not about planes.

[LordOfMinecraft99]

OK, so this is a big post, as I am sharing my space shuttle and 100 ton lifter.

 

Let's start with the shuttle:

 

In the VAB

In the VAB, cont.

On the pad

The dual rd-180s of the first stage ignite.

liftoff

Gravity turn

Rd-180 sep and vaccum engine ignition

Engine burning

Burning...

Dedford and Jeb are happy

Vaccum stage Sep

Shuttle in orbit. The rear section containing the Docking Port and deorbit engines is thrown away later.

OMS detail

Retro burn

Bye OMS, enjoy burning up

Good landing.

The shuttle cannot carry cargo but is an effective and reusable crew transport.

The RD-180's have parachutes on them and are recovered. Floats prevent the water from reaching the engines.

Now to the heavy lifter, the Dremios 5-

Dremios 5 with a dummy payload i used for testing, hence the "Demonstration 100 [tons]"

The buisness end. Due to my TERRIBLE flying, I make sure to always have a margin of 1km/s of delta v extra, hence the SRBs.

On the pad.

Engine- start!

LIFTOFF!

Booster sep.

Fairing sep

Adios first stage. The second stage of russian engines ignites.

Final UDMH-NTO powered stage.

here goes the Dummy Payload. You can see the mass of just shy of 100, but it works with a FULL 100 due to my generous margin.

 

Bye!

[Scorpu]

Unity Space Station

 

[jrodriguez]

Hi all RO fans,

I think you might like this video I just recorded. (KSP 1.3 + RO + (100 mods)) . This is a "Work in Progress" BFR(ish*). On this video I'm doing a landing attempt of the BFR Booster.

* It matches  the size . But a bit heavier at launch (4500 tons) and also a bit more powerful that the current specifications of the BFR.

[DrLicor]

9 hours ago, jrodriguez said:

Hi all RO fans,

I think you might like this video I just recorded. (KSP 1.3 + RO + (100 mods)) . This is a "Work in Progress" BFR(ish*). On this video I'm doing a landing attempt of the BFR Booster.

* It matches  the size . But a bit heavier at launch (4500 tons) and also a bit more powerful that the current specifications of the BFR.

Damnn, awesome video man.

[jrodriguez]

3 hours ago, DrLicor said:

Damnn, awesome video man.

Thanks. Let's see if I can make a successful landing on the day 2

[hypervelocity]

great video @jrodriguez - may I ask what part pack are you using for the Raptor engines?

Edited November 26, 2017 by hypervelocity

[jrodriguez]

1 hour ago, hypervelocity said:

great video @jrodriguez - may I ask what part pack are you using for the Raptor engines?

Thanks ! I will post the Day 2 soon (Lets hope I manage to do a more accurate landing)

I'm using Launchers Pack mod . I've also modified a MM patch to match the new Raptor specs as 2017 Elon's video announcement for BFR. 

 

Edited November 26, 2017 by jrodriguez

[jrodriguez]

The 2nd day is here. First succesful landing of the BFR Booster. Enjoy

 

 

[Scorpu]

This is one of my lunar missions from my RSS/RP0 career. Mission architecture is a combination of the cancelled Constellation program (Ares V, lander ascent stage) and Artemis program from "Eyes Turned Skyward" alternate history (Ares I, Apollo, HAB lander, lander descent stage). This particular mission targeted the Compton-Belkovich Thorium Anomaly, also called Compton-Belkovich volcanic complex.

 

 

[NSEP]

Okay, im starting a new RP-0 campaign after a long break. Sounding rockets might pop up on this thread soon. 

[NSEP]

After a quick 20 minute session, i built my first sounding rocket, the Neutron.

It did not reach its target altitude of 50km because it slowly tipped over and crashed over mainland Florida (ouch!)

 

I tried fixing it by using spin stabilization. This only brought me up to 35km.

 

So i decided to go the 'screw sounding rockets' route by just building an A-4. Haven't launched this one yet.

Edited December 7, 2017 by NSEP

[LordOfMinecraft99]

That moment when you post craft and you don't get recognition  

[Matuchkin]

3 hours ago, LordOfMinecraft99 said:

That moment when you post craft and you don't get recognition  

Wait what? I just realised there was a behemoth of a post smack dab in the middle of this thread. This is awesome, you literally made a mk1 jet cockpit look like a small and cute cupola, and actually made the shuttle look cooler with that. As for your heavy lifter: sleek, lot's of power, beautiful shots. Sorry I didn't notice you, your post was a bit buried by the time I got here.

P.S: horrible flight skills? Fly with mechjeb, this is a realistic mod and you're supposed to have an avionics computer. Plus, it will make your flights more real/"professional".

Edited December 8, 2017 by Matuchkin

[LordOfMinecraft99]

11 hours ago, Matuchkin said:

Wait what? I just realised there was a behemoth of a post smack dab in the middle of this thread. This is awesome, you literally made a mk1 jet cockpit look like a small and cute cupola, and actually made the shuttle look cooler with that. As for your heavy lifter: sleek, lot's of power, beautiful shots. Sorry I didn't notice you, your post was a bit buried by the time I got here.

P.S: horrible flight skills? Fly with mechjeb, this is a realistic mod and you're supposed to have an avionics computer. Plus, it will make your flights more real/"professional".

Thanks! I have never been able to get mechjeb to work  It always makes the gravity turns too long or too short or flips the rocket.

EDIT: Also sorry for complaining that i dont get any praise . Who does that!?

Edited December 8, 2017 by LordOfMinecraft99
What I said was narristic

[DrLicor]

10 minutes ago, LordOfMinecraft99 said:

Thanks! I have never been able to get mechjeb to work  It always makes the gravity turns too long or too short or flips the rocket.

EDIT: Also sorry for complaining that i dont get any praise . Who does that!?

Haha never mind.  This should  help you  

Also, for spaceplanes, I use Atmosmpheric Autopilot, it's much more stable than mechjeb, at leat the descent, the ascent is done by mechjebs smart-a.s.s. on SURF-mode. A-symmetrical thrust is bottlenecking mechjeb...

https://github.com/KSP-RO/RealismOverhaul/wiki/MechJeb-Ascents

 

[Matuchkin]

@DrLicor your profile pic is in graphics interchange format. I did not know that.

Edited December 8, 2017 by Matuchkin

[DrLicor]

33 minutes ago, Matuchkin said:

@DrLicor your profile pic is in graphics interchange format. I did not know that.

Haha yepp, but the forum shows it as a single picture sometimes.

[Julien Kerman]

Although I cancelled a crewed Constellation Mars Mission during the 90's in my career,   I am still working on the Ares V in a different save. 

The boosters and first stage work just fine, but I have massive problems with the upper stage  

Various sources show a payload capacity of  186 - 188 tons to LEO, but I cant even deliver a 160 ton payload into orbit.

The J-2X is just way to weak and due to the 0.23 TWR,  the upper stage always falls back into the atmosphere  

 

I know that @winged used a 149 ton version for his video, but such a capacity would be disappointing for me.

Not quite sure what I will do now, I am thinking of building a dual HG-3 vac version.......... 

[Scorpu]

@Julien Kerman  That is a very good looking Ares V. I also tested this rocket couple days ago in my own save. And I had the same problem with the upper stage. I only managed to put 150 tons into LEO after I added a second J-2X engine. I don't know how they wanted to launch with only 1 J-2X. They would have to aim for a very high apoapsis or launch the upper stage short-fueled (like ULA sometimes does this with Centaur). But then they wouldn't reach those 180 tons.

Maybe you could use more powerful boosters? The real Ares V was supposed to use 5,5 segment SRMs and those in KSP are 5 segment SRMs. 

[Julien Kerman]

16 minutes ago, Scorpu said:

Maybe you could use more powerful boosters? The real Ares V was supposed to use 5,5 segment SRMs and those in KSP are 5 segment SRMs. 

Huh really? I used the RSRMV boosters which come with SXT (I believe). They also have realistic mass and thrust., and their description says they are the ones from the Ares V ?

Edited December 9, 2017 by Julien Kerman

[Scorpu]

@Julien Kerman  I was talking about the final version of Ares V. Earlier versions would use RSRMV, so the description is correct. 

I tested my Ares V with 3 different sets of boosters: 2x Dark Knight SRB (from Sobol's SLS pack), 2x Pyrios F-1B boosters (the ones from my lunar mission video) and 4x RSRMV. The core stage had 5 RS-68B engines (414 isp vac) and upper stage had 2 J-2X engines. With 2 RSRMV boosters the payload to LEO was 150 tons.

With Dark Knight SRBs the payload to LEO was 165 tons, with 200 m/s left in EDS. These boosters have a dry mass of 75 tons (RSRMV have 85 tons) and they have more solid fuel while being the same size as RSRMVs.

With Pyrios boosters payload increased to 175 tons. If liftoff TWR was higher, it would reach the magical 180 tons. 

The weight at liftoff was 5100 tons here. This variant delivered 200 tons to LEO and had 250m/s left. 

[Krases]

Alright, time for a batch of pics. I worked hard on this guy. Its not the best, but it was fun to work with. Based off a Jupiter DIRECT concept I saw once. 

 

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[JohnMcLane]

5 hours ago, Krases said:

Alright, time for a batch of pics. I worked hard on this guy. Its not the best, but it was fun to work with. Based off a Jupiter DIRECT concept I saw once. 

 

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Hey Krases, some data to your rocket would be nice. How much does it lift to LEO?

[Julien Kerman]

@Krases holy sh*t, this looks insane. Can you give us some performance data? Mass, engines, payload to LEO ?