[0.16+ mechjeb] Mun Capable Spaceplane.

[Maxed-Rockets]

Warning, the decoupler is of the wrong type in this download, switch it with the spaceplane style one or increase clearance some other way.

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Here is the ship I made my first successful mun landing and return in. The fuel budget is a little tight, but my flying is not known for its efficiency

Very fun to fly, it has way too many engines on the first stages, making it very fast.

1,000 internet points to the person who can find and remove the mechjeb capsule!

More Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/kK1zc#0

Flight Plan:

1. Start turbojet engines with the first stage, SAS on full throttle

2. Give the turbojets a second to spin up then hit the second stage to release the clamps.

3. Climb vertically on the turbo\'s until you start losing speed, then set off the next stage.

4. As soon as the SRB\'s start move to a 45 degree climb ASAP.

5. Your apoapsis should be at between 120km and 140km, use the final stage to circularize/ land on the mun.

Requires MechJeb 1.9

[theDoctor2012]

found it

[KevinTMC]

This is an interesting craft and I enjoyed zooming off the pad with it...but with the tri-couplers hard against the central fuselage, and some of the first-stage jet engines embedded within it, I haven\'t been able to detach the first stage without taking off the toroidal spike engine at the center too. Tried adding struts...didn\'t fix it.

Am I flying it wrong, or is there some odd glitch that\'s breaking the craft on my system?

[Bigred2989]

This is an interesting craft and I enjoyed zooming off the pad with it...but with the tri-couplers hard against the central fuselage, and some of the first-stage jet engines embedded within it, I haven\'t been able to detach the first stage without taking off the toroidal spike engine at the center too. Tried adding struts...didn\'t fix it.

Am I flying it wrong, or is there some odd glitch that\'s breaking the craft on my system?

I\'m having the same problem. I think the design is flawed. Not sure how OP got it working (if at all >)

[Maxed-Rockets]

In the download I switched from the larger C7 decouplers to the lighter original ones with less clearance. Switching to the C7 decouplers should fix the problem.

[KevinTMC]

Erm...I don\'t know what parts you\'re referring to here exactly.

This spaceplane calls for version 0.16+mechjeb. Available alternate parts relevant to this problem are limited to: a) vastly bigger tri-couplers, skinnier linear decouplers.

Each of which only makes the problem worse.

This design looks promising, and so I\'ll probably try to build something similar from scratch now. I do wish the posted craft had worked as advertised though.

[Maxed-Rockets]

Use the decouplers in the first picture, not the second one.

The first picture will get you to the Mun, the second one will get you to about 200km

[starblazer112]

Can someone post a link for MechJeb? I can\'t find it >