Loony's RP1 Misadventures

[Watermel00n]

one day I decided: let's abandon all my mission reports, and go quiet for a week while secretly training myself in the sacred ways of the RP1 player.

One week later...

Loony's RP1 Misadventures!

This is actually my fifth sixth seventh save...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous save:

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Part 1: The Bees' Knees

LAUNCH ONE: BeesNees 1

Powered by 5 Tiny Tim boosters, and an extra Veronique engine, the BeesNees 1 is a little larger than your usual first RP1 rocket!

The next stage is an Aerobee...

The BeesNees 1 crosses the Karman Line, but it still has one stage left!

Eventually, the rocket ends up with an apoapsis of 417 km.

It was eventually terminated by Range Safety at 40 km.

Wow, we're on the news!

LAUNCH TWO: BeesNees 1

The BeesNees 2 is a carbon copy of the earlier launch, but with a parachute!

It lands in the fields outside the KSC.

Well, the next launch is about to be a big one... the "Ardy" rocket!

 

Edited March 11 by Watermel00n

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Part 2: My friend Ardy!

LAUNCH THREE: BeesNees-Ardy

Liftoff! Powered by the RD-101 rocket, the "Ardy" first stage will fling the two stage extended BeesNees rocket to 3000 km downrange.

Although one of the Aerobees failed, the launch vehicle should be overkill enough to compensate.

There we go!

LAUNCH FOUR: Ardy-R500

Another launch, this time an Ardy-R500 completing the Downrange LV Dev contract.

 

Edited February 6 by Watermel00n

[Watermel00n]

Due to some reasons, i am going to restart this playthrough...

[Watermel00n]

hold up... here we go again!

Part one: NOT THE BEES!

BeesNees 1 lifts off with the combined power of 5 Tiny Tim Boosters. Well, until the central Veronique engine blew up them.

After a explosive start, the rocket somewhat stabilises.

The second stage fires after the dynamic pressure is low enough.

Third stage fires speeding the probe to 2.6 km/s!

The probe burns up on reentry though.

There we go!

BeesNees 2 is able to recover the probe from space successfully!

Next step: Downrange!

 

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Part 2: Downing the range

Guess what! The good old Ardy is back!

First Stage: RD-101

Second Stage: 2x XASR-1

Third Stage: XASR-1

The rocket flew about 3500 km downrange before it was terminated by ground control.

A biological payload was launched on an uprated BeesNees 2.

An Ardy-R500 was launched for the Downrange LV contract. It overperformed and was terminated by ground control after it completed the contract.

With that, 1953 is over!

An Ardy-R-FB rocket was launched Northeast to get film and biological experiments done.

An identical rocket was sent over the sea.

It's 1955, and time to complete our first program!

The Ardy-DumpsterFire rocket is ready to launch! First stage: RD-101

The guidance computer is detached to better control the unguided upper stages.

Second stage: 3x AJ10-27 (one failed, boo hoo)

Third stage: GCRC booster

Fourth stage: GCRC booster

The rocket almost goes over 6000 km downrange and burns up over the west coast of Africa.

Goodbye Early Rocket Development, hello Early Satellites!

 

[Watermel00n]

The Sparky 1 is the first orbit-capable launch system created by the Loony Space Program. It's basically the DumpsterFire-Ardy with 2 strap-on boosters.

First stage+Boosters: RD-103 + 2x XLR10

Boosters jettisoned.

Second stage: 3x AJ10-27

Third stage: GCRC booster

Fourth stage: GCRC booster

Success!

7th November 1955: First Artificial Satellite

Okay, I've just put a satellite into orbit with a glorified V2 with 2 Viking Sounding Rockets as boosters. What next?

Well I guess I need to wait a bit to actually launch useful things into orbit though...

 

 

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Part 4: Side Quests & More

Launch of an Ardy-FB sounding rocket. This design contains both an Early Film Camera and a Biological Capsule.

The Ardy-FBPlus uses a second stage with 3 Aerobees to boost the payload further downrange.