bcamp Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Greetings,After watching some Youtube videos, I have seen some people get vertical lift with RCS boosters only. Is this something that can be done with vanilla parts? Any description/direction available?Thanks,Bcamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcamp Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share Posted August 16, 2012 Should have been in General. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 So bcamp, what's the actual challenge?This topic seems more like a question to me and it should be in How-To, and also, RCS flight on Kerbin is very hard, as the RCS system is very weak and inefficient, but some add-on RCS is massively overpowered, hence the youtube videos.I'll move this to How-To for you bcamp, feel free to experiment wit RCS though, oh and most people like to see your attempt at a challenge before they have a go, it helps to get the ball rolling as it were Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigga Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 The H and N keys can be used to give thrust along the vertical axis. I-J-K-L can be used for horizontal translation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonel0sanders Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 In 0.15 I managed to get a rocket out of the atmosphere (not into orbit, still working on that) using nothing but RCS. The thing had no fuel tanks or engines, just RCS tanks and a slew of linear rcs ports on the bottom.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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