REMOVED - Starship SSTO - a VSSTO capable of Duna, Minmus and Mun. No Booster Required!

[Janus92]

REMOVED - BUT FOR ARCHIVING PURPOSES THE POST REMAINS:

 

I'm proud to present:

Features:

- Fully Reusable!

- Vacuum delta-V is an amazing 4890 m/s, and in orbit over 1750 m/s. That´s enough to suicide burn somewhere on the Kerbin-facing side of the Mun.

- Seats 6 Kerbals. Livable space of 225  cubic meters (good for those privacy-sensitive Kerbals).

- A Research Laboratory, and many science experiments and ISRU for refuelling enroute.

- Cargo Pod (2500L)

- Controllable Body-flaps

- Extendable landing struts for stabilizing on uneven terrain.

- Autoland function (Mechjeb, press backspace 2x to activate) which flips the ship from high AoAs to retrograde by using the body flaps, engages the engines (in case you forgot), and performs a soft-landing.

- The Stainless-steel body (2 fairings) shields most stuff and is perfect to shed heat from a hot Re-Entry or Aerobraking maneuvre.

 

 

Requirements:

- Breaking Ground DLC

- TweakScale

- MechJeb (optional, for re-entry and Autoland feature)

 

Guide to a successful Mun Landing:
- set and engage MJ’s Ascent Guidance (71km, 19% curve, starting the turn at 1m/s)
- Launch
- Plan & Perform a Hohmann Transfer (check min. 1750m/s in LKO, and using MJ’s Landing Guidance, modify maneuvre to select a landing spot with enough ore to refuel)
- Do a suicide burn! (press backspace for Autoland!)

Download Link:

SHIP REMOVED

 

See you Space Cowboy!

Edited April 28, 2022 by Janus92
Ship has been removed due to problems

[Janus92]

Update 2021-05-25:

I am working continuously on an automated takeoff and landing script for this ship, which, along with the craft, can be found here:

The ship also got a nosejob! I felt the nose was a little off. I'd say this is an improvement:

Edited May 25, 2021 by Janus92
Big update!

[Janus92]

Reserved for update

Edited April 11, 2021 by Janus92

[Janus92]

Reserved for Update

Edited April 11, 2021 by Janus92

[Bokaj]

Just incredible!

[cantab]

You took this craft down I take it? I was wondering if you had a way to make the flaps control both pitch and roll, since I'm finding that a problem in my own Starship-inspired design.

[swjr-swis]

31 minutes ago, cantab said:

You took this craft down I take it?

See https://kerbalx.com/Janus92/Flagship

[Janus92]

I did take it down, yeah. It didn't work as well for me after the last ksp update, so I scrapped it. If only I could delete the forum entry..

To be honest it's too long ago for me to remember. I think it was also a problem for me, and decided that kOS was the way to solve my problems.

 

If you're interested, below is my latest starship-related work. It's an addon to the nice Starship Expansion Project, and provides an easy to use GUI for Starship:

 

[cantab]

Thanks.

I had feared the only good way to handle it would be kOS or kRPC.