Danger's RP-0 Career

[EliasDanger]

I'm totally going to start over when RSS/RO/RP-0 is ready for 1.2, but I can't wait. I want to share these missions here incase anyone has comments or advice.

First mission I'm posting is a V2 science rocket. 3 bio samples, thermometer, barometer. Gotta unlock that tech!

 

Not going to post for every launch as I'll probably be launching similar V2s (without the bio samples and chutes, cuz I already got that) until the tech unlocks.

And I don't know how to post imgur albums since they are broken right now, so here's a link:

http://imgur.com/a/aQ6HB

 

Maybe the moderators can embed it for me?

Edited October 22, 2016 by EliasDanger

[EliasDanger]

So, the plain jane V2 was not good enough to get me the medium sounding rocket contracts (which are pretty much the only contracts I can reasonably do until the new tech unlocks), so I made a V2 with an aerobee second stage that took me from 200 km with standard V2 to 900 km with the V2-Aero.

http://imgur.com/a/iNacj

That should at least keep some funds trickling in until the tech unlocks for bigger and better things.

[EliasDanger]

After a string of successful V2 launches, we finally unlocked early orbital rocketry, which means its time to do some test launches to get those engines ready for when the avionics for our first satellite become available!

Mission 3: Test Launch the Stratos Launch Vehicle which hopefully will carry out first satellite to orbit in the near future.

Rocket consists of a RD-103 first stage, an AJ-10 Early series second stage, and an Aerobee AJ-10 config third stage. First attempts were without avionics, tried just leaning it a little to the east and letting thrust and gravity take care of the rest. Unfortunately, rocket kept deciding it wanted to go west instead, threatening the lives of many of Floridians. Had to range safety those launches shortly after lift off so we wouldn't have a spent stage land in someone's backyard. Next attempts included 2 V2 avionics, one for each of the first two stages. This worked well, but the first attempt with this configuration had batteries on the final stage run out before I could ignite it. So I added a small battery to the top of the final stage. On the second attempt, my AJ-10 failed halfway through the burn. The aerobee burned just fine though, resulting in a final altitude of 2,700+ KM. Would have been a bit more if that AJ-10 had burned all of its fuel.

http://imgur.com/a/AU5nC

Anyway, by now we have unlocked early avionics, which means the next mission will be our first orbital satellite attempts!