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SP-38 Starwhale + Deployable Support Vehicle


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SP-38 Starwhale

I've been working on this one for a while. Actually I've been working on the Eve return vehicle that's supposed to share it's cargo hold with some other equipment for a grand tour, but I've grown frustrated with it and decided to just release the plane with a different vehicle instead. The plane has the lifting capacity and range you'd expect of something designed to do a grand tour, owing largely to it's low-drag construction. It's able to land on Duna which I consider to be the most challenging environment for an aerodynamic vehicle like this to land in after Tylo. It remains balanced at all stages of flight so that it never becomes aerodynamically unstable, however it may be desirable to manually pump fuel around in some situations to improve handling, or to induce instability.

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Deployable Support Vehicle

I built this in part just to have something to release the Starwhale with, but I've also wanted to come up with a vehicle with this approximate size and capability for a long time. I really like the way this one came out, it's sort of like a small version of my Heavy Refueler, but with science. Very industrial and compact, and the way it folds out into a drilling platform is pretty cool. It took a lot of experimentation to arrive at that solution. Due to it's size and construction, this should be pretty easy to slap onto a mid-sized rocket and bring anywhere.

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