MK2 shuttle.

[Cloakedwand72]

Does anyone know how to make a good MK2 shuttle? With the COM in a good position. I want to make a well rounded exploration shuttle that can dock to a Joolian interplanetary ship etc.

Edited April 17, 2022 by Cloakedwand72

[king of nowhere]

you make it the same way you make any other shuttle, just with mk2 parts. i don't get your question, it's too generic to give a good answer

[swjr-swis]

On 4/17/2022 at 7:49 PM, Cloakedwand72 said:

Does anyone know how to make a good MK2 shuttle? With the COM in a good position. I want to make a well rounded exploration shuttle that can dock to a Joolian interplanetary ship etc.

Are you running into any specific issue? I don't find Mk2 inherently harder than other hulls to work with, just the payload space requiring some creative thinking in cramming functionality into a 1.25m cross section.

When you say 'explore', what do you have in mind? Will you be using it on worlds with atmosphere only, so it can be optimized for spaceplane glide trajectories? Or do you need it on airless worlds, which will need you to decide whether you want/need to land on the tail or VTOL-style? Or is it for transfer and/or low orbit only?

Depending on what you want or hope to do with it, there's a whole range of Mk2 hull spaceplanes/shuttles on KerbalX.com you can get ideas from.

[Cloakedwand72]

On 4/19/2022 at 11:36 AM, swjr-swis said:

Are you running into any specific issue? I don't find Mk2 inherently harder than other hulls to work with, just the payload space requiring some creative thinking in cramming functionality into a 1.25m cross section.

When you say 'explore', what do you have in mind? Will you be using it on worlds with atmosphere only, so it can be optimized for spaceplane glide trajectories? Or do you need it on airless worlds, which will need you to decide whether you want/need to land on the tail or VTOL-style? Or is it for transfer and/or low orbit only?

Depending on what you want or hope to do with it, there's a whole range of Mk2 hull spaceplanes/shuttles on KerbalX.com you can get ideas from.

I do want some mass in the front of the ship & when I mean explore I mean I can dock two of these things to a mother ship and transport them to planets and they would have a cargo bay for a rover or use the mining stock alike expansion mod for mk2 mining parts etc.