Stellaris and AESV

[gilflo]

Hi guys,

 

Here is the Stellaris, a MarkIV-B9 wings giant SSTO cargo and tanker working on 2 huge tweakscaled J61 Starwaster engines and 2 Mrs Quad Nuke engines for interplanetary flight. She is carrying AESV 41.8T and 10000DV  and a 17T -9600DV Reckon satellite and can climb to a 600kms orbit with more than 6000DV left allowing long interplanetary flights.

Stellaris sits on 20 -6 wheels main gears and 4 -2 Wheels directional wheels allowing landing on rough land at full weight providing VS do not exceed 3m/s. 4 repackable chutes allow short distance landings.

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With the freight

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AESV is an autonomous exploration science véhicule, carrying a lab and all the stuff to run experiences. it can also detect Ore, drill it and convert it. She runs on 4 "Lightbulb" nuke engines from Atomic Age.Those  Engines are tweakscaled to reach a 1.64 Mun TWR and provide 10000DV allowing AESV interplanetary flights. Its engine are fitted vertically allowing easy landings and also short jumps around a planet. She can use TCA to help, but she is very well balanced Dry and Full COM being the same. A lot of generators allow non stop drilling and converting. Engine can be tweakscaled to met any TWR requirements.

But she is not protected for atmospheric flights. Nuke engines will always overheat, but stays in limit. Overheating du to atmospheric transition would make nuke engines temperature overcome the limit and they would explode. So she must dock in a cargo to be brought back to Kerbin.

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Drillers and converter

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Edited December 25, 2016 by gilflo