IPR I - Large interplantary rocket [Mechjeb only]

[Xenotheos]

This is my first posted design so go easy on me. Only mod used is mechjeb and is pretty much required for something this size for my computer to perform the ascent for me.

Due to some botched math I had believed that the large tanks were better than using the smaller tanks so it's a bit of an odd design, but it's worked for what I've tried so far. It will leave some spacejunk in orbit around the star/kerbol, but most of the early stages are gone before an orbit is establish around kerbin.

To pilot I manually stage so that I can power up the outer turbojet engines before releasing the stabilizers and starting the rocket engines. Mechjeb's auto throttling works fine for this, the engines go a little past 50% overheated but haven't ever overheated for me. The rocket starts so high off the ground via stabilizers because it would collide with the launch tower if near the ground.

This isn't the best of designs but I've been able to reach a low duna orbit with ~2.5 rockomax x200-32 (big ones) left of fuel.

[ATTACH]33486[/ATTACH] <- This one, not sure how to get rid of other one that is 191.9KB.

It's probably a bit much, but I prefer overdoing it to underdoing it. Around 900t before launch, gets 220.9t into a 125km orbit with 2952L of fuel for the each of the outer stacks with 3 aerospike rockets each.

Edited September 24, 2012 by Xenotheos
Bad at attachments.

[JMBuilder]

Wow... That's a lot of jets...