The "Too Big To Fail" - 10 stage with all standard parts

[Mad_Engineer]

I was playing with getting into orbit and releasing satellites for a while, which is fun. But, for a change of pace I decided to go big and see how high I could get my velocity heading straight up using all standard parts.

And here it is...

Stage 1: Begin burn of 21x Liquid engines with 2 tanks each and 3x solid boosters

Stage 2: Release stage 1 solid boosters

Stage 3: Release stage 1 liquid engines/tanks and begin burn of 3x solid boosters for adequate separation

Stage 4: Begin burn of 9x liquid engines with 2 tanks each and 3x liquid engines with 3 tanks each

Stage 5: Release stage 3 solid boosters

Stage 6: Release stage 4 exterior liquid engines/tanks

Stage 7: Begin burn of 9x solid boosters

Stage 8: Release stage 7 solid boosters

Stage 9: Release stage 4 interior liquid engines/tanks

Stage 10: Begin burn of 1x liquid engine with 3 tanks

Total burn time: 9m 43s

Max velocity: 8516 m/s

[mr_dogbert]

I shall download, test, and report back

[azza]

Ooh, this one has been fun. It's bit of a beast.

I stuffed a couple of the stage separations up, but got some pretty decent speed and burn time (over 7,600 m/s and 10 mins burn time, I throttled down for the last tank).

There's a good kick at stage 4 that I almost lost control of.

Will have another go and see how far I get without stuffing the stage separations up.

Thanks for the upload

[Tim_Barrett]

Oh the monstrosities struts have created xD

[foamyesque]

Oh the monstrosities struts have created xD

You ain't seen nothin' yet.