Stock Space Shuttle : buran

[dmhiston]

Hey guys I am new to the forums so forgive me if i do something wrong thx.

Anyway back to what you came here for, I made a space shuttle (with stock parts only) that can get into orbit around kerbin which has a similar design to the soviet space shuttle "buran".

here it is at the lauch pad

Also if someone can tell me how to put the ship up for download that would be great thanks!

~Dmhiston

[emfolkerts]

awsome work dude i cant wait to fly it

[ChronicSilence]

Looks cool. In your KSP folder, go to Ships->VAB and find "yourship.craft". Then upload it to some file share website (the attachments on the new forum are kind of broken), and put the link in your post!

[LvSoulDestroyer]

Awesome, please upload the .craft!

[dmhiston]

Here is the .craft download: http://www./?slfdsqac20f36ax

I was also going to include a flight plan so you can get it into orbit, but instead i challenge you (as its a bit tricky) guys to try to get it into orbit and then land at KSC afterwards enjoy , when someone shows me screenshot proof of the flight results, then ill post the flight plan.

[jamieadd]

This is great!

[lukasni]

Well, I came within meters of the runway on a powered landing. Sadly, i managed to bollocks it up with a mad attempt at a final correction to actually put me *on* the runway, instead of 2 meters next to it. Whole thing went to smithereens =P I'll be back with a successful landing tomorrow. Here's the last Screenshot I took, still quite a bit away from the target though. I haven't managed an unpowered landing so far, should that be possible?

[olex]

Very nice craft. Flies much more stable than expected from the asymmetric configuration, but not quite stable enough for fully-automatic ascent using MechJeb ILS auto-landing is a breeze once it's down into atmo though, the thing is beautiful in powered atmospheric flight. I'm going to keep this for a while.

[Limit]

Very nice shuttle! Ive been trying hard to make one that has some sort of resemblance to the real thing.

[lukasni]

Well, I finally managed an unpowered landing. Still managed to knock off the engines at the last second thought, but it'll have to do.

Here are some screenshots of the flight (I had some more, but the post limit screwed me over):

This is after executing the roll program

There were still about 2.5k liters of fuel left, but that is probably mostly due to the .16 fuel bug

And finally the flight results. Slightly messed up because I loaded a quicksafe just before reentry. As you can see I knocked off the engines on the edge of the runway, if I can be bothered, I'll do another flight and try and get clean results. There is more than enough fuel for a powered landing, but I wanted to glide in.