Make the best & fastest-in-orbit rocket in max. 2 min

[lowietje22]

ok guys try it!

RULES:

1. Max. 2 minutes of building time, STICK TO THAT RULE

2. It has to be in orbit

3. tell the apoapsis and periapsis

good luck

(maybe you can add a screenshot?)

i did it but i forgot to save my liftoff rocket

so here\'s my orbitting rocket:

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/6345/naamloosraketdingen.png

i will update the results with the bests and highest orbits;

ranks

Currently List

1.p512(AP: 346\'477m) #

2.Madmak (ap:200.000, pe:/) #

3.khyron42(ap: 102.000)

4.Lowietje22

rank info

green means it has become higher in the list

red means it becomes lower in the list

and # means the highest in the ranks

GOOD LUCK

[A Fat Pokemon]

I actually made it to orbit in less than a second, and I\'ve got the farthest distance too. Don\'t see anything ruling out glitches 8) so don\'t be mean and change it, I got first!

[lowietje22]

haha nice! ;D

[p512]

I actually made one within 2 minutes. However since I\'m completely new to KSP (2 days) I don\'t really know what\'s the best route to take to get to orbit. That being said I had an AP of 1\'000\'000 m .... =P

[lowietje22]

well, yes

the best ap is 100km, or 100.000m i guess( 62.1371192 miles)

then make a 90-or 270° turn to your pa

and then make an orbit to kerbin

you can after that extend it with throttle it up, until your crossing the mun\'s orbit..

and so on

good luck

ps: Welcome to ksp

[Madmak]

Well... ok.

It took me 1:45 to build my ship

Then, since I got a circular orbit around 200km, I decided to go to Minmus, since a kerbol escape seemed kind of silly.

When I landed, I hit at about 0.3m/s, but the uneven ground disconnected my engine, meaning my boys are stuck :/

[lowietje22]

sir, i think you have first place for now

[khyron42]

Oh, I thought it was 'flight time of 2 minutes to be in orbit.' Not build time in the VAB. Which is it supposed to be?

[lowietje22]

Oh, I thought it was 'flight time of 2 minutes to be in orbit.' Not build time in the VAB. Which is it supposed to be?

it could be any rocket

[khyron42]

1 minute 45 seconds.

Using keyboard shortcuts helps a lot. X key can be used to set your symmetry rather than clicking on it. Alt+left-click can copy any existing part of your rocket, allowing you to avoid having to go back to the parts bin except when you have to and place large numbers of parts with a single click.

Video of the first 30 seconds of construction - I really need to buy FRAPS if I\'m going to do this very often:

http://youtu.be/lW7vkKB4uxY

The ship made it to a 91 x 106 km orbit with 16 full fuel tanks and 6 quarter-full ones left, so I went ahead and sent it on an interstellar trajectory. I left them with about 2.4 fuel tanks to slow down once they reach the next star system.

Image Gallery

At the end of that video, I was two clicks (and four taps of the X key) away from having the second stage in place and four more clicks from adding the third stage. After placing the third stage, I just had to place two 6x symmetry struts, 2 6x symmetry fuel lines, name the ship, and rearrange the staging to put all engines in the first stage. Since I still had 30 seconds at that point, I also moved the decouplers around to reduce the total number of stages.

[lowietje22]

nice!

[SunJumper]

Is editing staging in flight allowed?

[lowietje22]

what do you exactely mean?

[p512]

AP: 171\'718m

PE: 155\'704m

I could\'ve done more. I\'ll do it the next try.

Proof (Masked w/ PS):

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/2773/allfd.jpg

Ship I\'ve built:

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7829/screenshot3dp.png

In space:

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6481/screenshot2xt.png

I had 23 seconds left.

[p512]

AP: 346\'477m

PE: 338\'121m

This is actually my 4th real try of orbiting a rocket. However there is no fuel left =(

Tho it\'s pretty perfect I think. Using the same rocket as before.

Proof (again masked with PS):

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9430/all1r.jpg

In space:

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1507/screenshot7cy.png