An online launch performance calculator using Kerbal?

[Exoscientist]

It should be doable to create an online launcher performance calculator using Orbiter analogous to Dr. John Shilling's calculator:

Launch Vehicle Performance Calculator.
http://silverbirdastronautics.com/LVperform.html

It should have an GUI where you could just plug in the specifications of your rocket and get a reasonably accurate estimate of the payload to Earth orbit, without having to be familiar with Kerbal programming. 

Bob Clark

[Shpaget]

Yes, it should be doable, but what would be the purpose if it?

Engines, fuel tanks etc. in KSP are not accurate and realistic. Kerbin is a lot smaller than Earth, atmospheric physics are not top notch... So why would you use KSP for simulation of real missions, when you already have a better calculator (the one you linked)?

[Exoscientist]

 

 I read that Elon Musk uses Kerbal to do some modeling. I presume he uses it for real world, i.e., Earth rockets, so there must be a way to input data with specifications for the world it's based on.

 

  Bob Clark

[YNM]

53 minutes ago, Exoscientist said:

I read that Elon Musk uses Kerbal to do some modeling.

That'd explain the second stage problem.