K-20 KerbalSoar Test

[Angelo Kerman]

While retexturing MOLE's 1.875m Titan tanks, I decided to revive an old sample craft file from the mod: The K-20 KerbalSoar! The new sample craft requires the Making History DLC as it combines both stock, MOLE, and DLC parts.

Launching into orbit, you can see the revised Ttian 900, 450, and 1800 (WIP). The 450 needs some tweaks to the specular map. The K-20 launch needs to be lobbed upwards and climb out of the atmosphere befor arcing over.

With barely any MonoPropellant, the K-20 just takes a trip around Kerbin. Time to go home though...

Unfortunately, the front winglets melted from the heat and made it hard to pull the nose up. As a result, the K-20 came in short:

Jeb is the consummate professional, so instead of bailing out, he brought the ship down for a safe albeit rough field landing:

What's nice is that you can replace the structural fuselage with a crew cabin for additional crew capacity. It needs a few tweaks to fix the front winglets, and some additional MonoPropellant in the service propulsion stage, but the revived K-20 is flying pretty well. Not bad for a first test flight.

[Mrcarrot]

Now I want the DLC just so I can fly that... or something similar

[Angelo Kerman]

2 hours ago, Mrcarrot said:

Now I want the DLC just so I can fly that... or something similar

I thought about adding a small part set for a custom K-20 but there's a bunch of X-20-alike mods out there already...