Small Beyond Kerbin Challenge

[Moose Rocket Science]

THE SMALL ROCKET CHALLENGE.

The Rules: Mods allowed: Tweakscale,KJR,RSS, Mods not allowed:Any mod with launches from other planets, warp drive mods.

Easy: Manned Probe to the Mun with 20 parts or less and back

Medium: Manned Probe to Duna with 25 parts or less and back

Hard: Manned Probe to Eve and Gilly With 30 parts or less and back

Aggressive: Grand tour, 35 parts or less and back, No Refueling!

Epic: Impress me or do a grand tour with Outer planets/RSS No refueling, 40 parts or less and back!

You have to launch 1 rocket for each of these challenges that's right A single launch roundtrip! Good Luck! -Moose Rocket Science

You may post your images and videos of your attempt of the challenge on this thread. (Don't forget to count up your parts!)

Edited May 13, 2016 by Moose Rocket Science

[Jhawk1099]

Would Minmus count @Moose Rocket Science?

Edited May 12, 2016 by Jhawk1099

[astrobond]

Hi All

Easy mode: 3 Parts to the Mun...

But i just see that this challenge is "and back"..... so just for fun xD

 

 

[Pds314]

I suspect this will not so much produce "small" rockets as it will simple ones. For ex, consider the following mission plans:

Send 1 Kerbal on an Apollo-style Mun mission using a Lander with 4 "quadcopter style" linear RCS ports for its only control and a 70% filled small inline RCS tank. Do everything from command chairs and use a command chair on the command module with only 4x linear RCS for propulsion and a heat-shield and parachute for reentry. Attach together with a stack separator.

Lander mass: 120 kg thrusters, 50 kg chair, 50 kg tank, 224 kg monopropellant, 93.75 kg Kerbal =313.75 kg empty, 537.75 kg full.

Lander dV: 1268 m/s - cosine losses in the singal digit percents.

CM mass: 120 kg thrusters, 50 kg chair, 300 kg heatshield, 150 kg tank, 640 kg Monopropellant, 20 kg stack separator, 1000 kg fuel.

Combined mass in orbit: 2277.75 kg.

Part count in orbit: 14.

Vs. A much heavier but fewer part count ultra-direct version that could probably be 6 parts. What is abundantly clear here is that my vehicle could be like 20 tonnes on the pad, if that, and yet would be more parts than a mission with 100 tonnes on the pad.

Edited May 12, 2016 by Pds314

[Moose Rocket Science]

3 hours ago, astrobond said:

Hi All

Easy mode: 3 Parts to the Mun...

But i just see that this challenge is "and back"..... so just for fun xD

 

 

You stranded a kerbal on the mun! You've Failed, due to the "and back" part. Wait, Cheater! you can't use hyperedit!

4 hours ago, Jhawk1099 said:

Would Minmus count @Moose Rocket Science?

yes. but less than 45 parts.

Edited May 12, 2016 by Moose Rocket Science

[Gojira1000]

You can easily make an SSTO - 27 parts, stock - to Minmus and back:

 

My bigger SSTO did Jool's moons, Gilly, Duna, etc etc with under 60 parts (from memory, it's 56 parts, will have to check that later).

That one runs ISRU, of course.

 

[Moose Rocket Science]

UPDATE: for Jool and eeloo it's 35 parts or less.

Edited May 13, 2016 by Moose Rocket Science

[Jhawk1099]

Well here's this

 

[Jhawk1099]

@Moose Rocket Science does that qualify me?

 

[Moose Rocket Science]

Just now, Jhawk1099 said:

@Moose Rocket Science does that qualify me?

 

Yes this does qualify. 

[Moose Rocket Science]

since nobody had done my challenge, i am closing it.

[NecroBones]

 

Locked by request.