Your Favorite Launchers!

[Draconiator]

Like the topic title, do you guys have any favorites as far as launch vehicles you've built?

As soon as I built this one, I knew it would become one of my faves.  Here are statistics:

Weight (as shown): 147.5 Tons

1st Stage: 1x Mainsail engine, 4x Thumper, 2x Rockomax Jumbo-64 tanks

2nd Stage: 1x Skipper engine, 1x Rockomax X-200 16, 1x Rockomax X-200 32, a 2.5m reaction wheel, 2.5-1.25 convertor, and an FL-T400.  This one has a small communications sat. on top.

For big things, I usually custom-build the vehicle around the payload, but for small things I reuse designs religiously.

[Guest]

This is my favorite LV from my last RP-0 playthrough, it's basically a Vostok, 5 tons to LEO.  Put many satellites and experiments into orbit on top of that thing.

[max_creative]

I just have a ton of big rockets. Like, 3/4 as tall as the VAB big.

they explode a lot. 

Edited March 23, 2016 by max_creative
Added a little stuff

[Ozymandias_the_Goat]

26 minutes ago, max_creative said:

I just have a ton of big rockets. Like, 3/4 as tall as the VAB big.

they explode a lot. 

I think I understand.

[HebaruSan]

2 hours ago, Draconiator said:

Like the topic title, do you guys have any favorites as far as launch vehicles you've built?

Custom launchers are 90% of my fun; I would never dream of re-using. Note, some of these are old and would not work in 1.0.

 

[Jetski]

Moar Boosters!

[bewing]

I go for the smaller-is-fine-for-me approach.  My first stage booster here (3 kickbacks) gets almost anything of mine most of the way into orbit, or most of the way to Mun or Minmus (for refueling and further travels). The first stage is meant for a pure-vertical launch and is 100% recoverable.

The second stage is just a plain thumper.

[Vanamonde]

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