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RSS: Many VTOL Shuttles for Mars


gilflo

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Here is my VTOL Shuttles fleet for Mars: On foreground, the biggest one will be launched by a big rocket. It contains a Big Converter Driller fit with a KAS Fuel station to supply all Shuttle with LF. Every Shuttle is equipped with 2 KAS Socket for the supply line.

In the middle,  the Shuttle takes à Mars Base in its center hold. In the back we have a Shuttle with a 8 crew compartment, a Lab and a rover in its belly. Near the building is the Driller Converter

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Here is the vertical Rocket with the biggest Shuttle. all other Shuttle will be Stratolaunched

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Take off of the first Shuttle that contains a ScanSat Satellite to draw a map Of Mars and find the best Ore Spot to land and establish a Base. The Suttle is automatic, and the Stratolauncher is piloted by 2 kerbals. Take off weight is around 3500T

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At 50 kms in suborbital flight, the shuttle is launched and begins its climb on 2 LH2O side rockets. Then it finishes the climb to 170 kms orbit where  we get 14 to 15000 DV left for Mars

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Once orbiting Mars, the Shuttle has launched the Satellite and a map was drawn to find the best landing site which is in the Yellow color.  I marked a blue waypoint just under Mars equator line determined by the 2 green waypoints. Then it is easy to intersect the equator plane and the Shuttle plane to set a manoeuver point.

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Here the Stratolaunch vid

https://youtu.be/cHVPf97ZchQ

 

 

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