Comsat Launcher

[maro]

Here is my first launcher i want to show you

It is a small launcher for placing comsats in to any apropriate orbit – Kerbal Geostat, Mun, Minmus…

Weighting 33,3tons on the ramp it has 4 staging events at launch. After deploy of the comsat you can return the uper stage to Kerbin leaving no debris whatsoever in Space if you drop the second stage bevor the periapsis is to high. Drag and gravity losses ar both below 30%.

A little bit shakin on the pad…but not critical.

Upper stage is very small therefore you can make a lot of powerful orbit corrections even there is only a FL-T250 tank on it.

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Plugins needed for this config:

Nova Punch

PowerSat

PowerTech

MechJeb

Major Parts used

Two M50 engines

Two K2-X engines

Three FL-S100L Tanks

One FL-T250 Tank

1,75m Cone

Unmanned Pod

MechJeb

PWRSat

Adapters

Staging

1 – Engines Start

2 – Liquid Boosters drop/ 100 sec past liftoff

3 + 4 – Payload Cover drop / from 70km+ until periapsis < 0km

5 – 1st stage drop / up to periapsis < ~40km (use your fuel up to latest possible moment...there is enough left to make some orbit corrections)

6 – deploy sat with right mouse click

7 – deorbit upper stage

Regards from Vienna

[maro]

Presenting here my new launcher for placing a PowerTech PowerSat(*) into any apropriate Kerbin, Mun or Minmus Orbit.

It has enough power to put the PWRTech for example into a Kerbin Geostat Orbit (2.686.000km / 1.009m/s) and returning the Pilot to Kerbin. Except the PWRSat and the optional MechJeb (**) only 0.16 Vanilla Parts are used.

(*) http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=9879.0

(**) http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=14066.0

As in 0.16 there is no way to lauch without pilot the upper stage has a mass of 4 tonnes containing, Command Pod Mk1, PWR Sat, Mech Jeb AR202 Case (Optional), MK16 Parachute, Decoupler, T200 Tank, 909 Engine.

Launch mass is 44,7 tonnes

Plugins needed for this config:

PowerSat

PowerTech

(option) MechJeb

Staging

1 – Engines Start

2 – two Liquid Boosters drop/ ~90 sec past liftoff

3 – two Liquid Boosters drop

4 – center stage drop

5 – engine start upper stage

6 – deploy sat with right mouse click

7-8 – deorbit upper stage / decoupling capsule / parachute