Sending a 1:1 scale stock CN Tower Replica to Minmus

[s_gamer101]

Stock 1:1 Scale CN Tower Replica to Minmus

This Mission was one of my submission for the "Providence" community project which was part of the Upsilon initiative. The tower's height is about 553 meters, like the real CN Tower.

The lower part of the tower consists of fuel tanks and some other stuff. I filled the fuel tanks, then I just had to attach some detachable engines and RCS pods. It seems like this "confused" the game, causing wrong delta V readouts (I had way more dV than what was displayed). Luckily, the delta V readous from Kerbal Engineer Redux were still displaying correct values.

Liftoff!

I reached orbit with only one stage, so it was technically an SSTO so far, but now I was almost out of fuel and I decoupled the Mammoth engines.

Time to launch the refueler!

Part count including launch vehicle: about 900 parts

Docking a 600 parts vessel to a 900 parts vessel - There was a lag.

TAC Fuel Balancer saved the day, because without it, I would have had to refuel tank by tank, clicking on every single one at least once and also worry about balancing the vessel and it would have taken forever.

Park orbit around Minmus, ready to land.

Touchdown!

But for some reason, the tower was kind of... shaky. And for some reason, it was sliding accross the surface. I had to use almost all of the remaining fuel for the RCS to keep it in an upright position while waitig for it to stop sliding. It took a while until I figured out that it might be better to disable SAS. And it also took a while until it came to a stop then.

Then it finally stoped sliding.

Decoupling the RCS pods.

[SiriusRocketry]

Wow, that must've taken some serious flying skill to get into orbit! Fantastic job!

[s_gamer101]

Thanks