Low cost way to LKO, and aerodynamic heat shields.

[MacLeod-Industries]

No pictures, sorry. Use your imagination dangit.

 

So forever ago I made a plane that could go 1400 m/s. It was mk2 part size and had 4 ramjet engines. It has to have a heat shield on it because it goes so fast...
Later I slapped a mk2 cargo bay in there thinking... "If I could get this into a suborbital flight, then if I just release a small probe with a lot of speratrons then I could get it into orbit."

So I did.

I got to about 52,000 meters, the majority of the atmosphere gone, and released the probe.

Albeit The Evil Kraken attacked the original probe design, so I couldn't get a perfect orbit but it was an amazing achievement.

The plane then re-enters near another large landmass... and you can turn the engines back on to control you landing...

or crash like I did.

Anyways, it only took about 250 units of liquid only fuel to get up there, and then maybe 12 seperatrons to get the probe into orbit.

That is pretty cheap in my opinion. Getting the entire plane into orbit is a little tedious and fuel intensive.

Finally, the heat shield on the front of my plane is NOT aerodynamic... it would be nice to have aerodynamic ones so you can make a fast plane, and still be protected.

[He_162]

Pictures really help. Imagination isn't the extent to which this game can go, it goes much further.

Anyway, I like the idea, I made a vehicle that used only sepratrons to get things into orbit, and I believe the last 3 stages on the satellite could fit in your bay, and bring it to orbit quite easily.

https://kerbalx.com/He_162/STO

[MacLeod-Industries]

10 hours ago, He_162 said:

Pictures really help. Imagination isn't the extent to which this game can go, it goes much further.

Anyway, I like the idea, I made a vehicle that used only sepratrons to get things into orbit, and I believe the last 3 stages on the satellite could fit in your bay, and bring it to orbit quite easily.

https://kerbalx.com/He_162/STO

Actually, I got the idea from Explorer 1 The first us satellite to get into orbit...

I was recreating it, as I am making a NASA save with all of it's missions (And the few missions that came before, but there program was taken over by NASA, like Explorer 1"

Now they used solid fuel in the orbiter stage. It had a burn time of 6 seconds... in clusters in 11, 3 and 1.

Seperatrons burn for 5 seconds...

The Americans did it first... xD Just not a very well known concept.

I am hoping to get the NASA save on here eventually, but I still have a lot of work to do.

I will add pictures later then too.