[Stock] 30 sec Altitude Challenge!

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I cannot make it in 500 times

[Mars90000000]

Try out different fuel and engine arrangements (ie asparagus staging)

[Forte]

I made it to 10743 meters! I was starting to get reentry effects. I can't show you the picture because its not on the internet. ):

[Mars90000000]

Gotta have screenshots!

[MarvinKitFox]

Good news everyone! I did something with decouplers so exploitative that they'll have to be banned from the competition!

I give you: Plaid.

!

Hmm, not bad.

Now just fix your landing, and you're hired.

[Starwhip]

You are calling the Mun in 13 seconds plaid?

Sun apoapsis in 15 seconds or so. The screenshot, if you note, is only at 1:41.

Yeah. But it is with CFG editing.

EDIT:

So I did the calculations: in 30 seconds I would be at 88,681,208,138 meters. Lovely.

Edited June 5, 2014 by Starwhip

[SciMan]

That's a big number in the velocity box....

19729581712.5 (m/s) / c (speed of light) = 65.8108007

That thing is going 65.8 times faster than light. but... I don't even...

Holy crap. So much for warp-drive.

[Starwhip]

That thing was a 2-part craft: OKTO2 core plus *cough*edited*cough* Rockomax... whatever the tiny one is. The stack orange-y stacky 0.625 metery one.

Lowered the mass to 0.000001 and increased the thrust to 100,000

It broke in under 15 seconds. Gyro Kraken.

(Had unbreakable joints plus infinite fuel on.)

[quietsamurai98]

So, not exploitive entry:

19041m

[totalitor]

Yes, new engines but I just can't go higher. I stick below 30000 m.

[mrabinovich]

30079 meters above sea level.

Edited June 8, 2014 by mrabinovich
typo

[Lou]

I got to 33062:

Here's how it starts: Small 2 stage rocket on top of a parallel cluster of giant engines:

Click here fore images of the flight.

Edited June 11, 2014 by Lou
Improved my rocket and score

[totalitor]

My result is 31893 m. I used asparagus system on big engines and eight 48-7S on final stage.

Edited June 11, 2014 by totalitor

[Mark Nutt]

I tried it with a single stage rocket.

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[MadChris48]

Best attempt so far. I'm guessing that is about to read 21279.

[Norcalplanner]

And my first substantive post on the forum will be to say that I made it up to 22,442 using nothing but RT-10s.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get imgur to work...

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10202048110555285.1073741826.1562262117&type=1&l=33ee16ce6c

[Norcalplanner]

Let's try this again, and hopefully imgur will work this time - 22,825

Edited June 26, 2014 by Norcalplanner
Finally got imgur to work...

[Ezriilc]

Hello all. I'm very interested in this challenge, but I agree that the decoupler powered ships shouldn't be allowed. They're very clever, but they're mortar shells - not rockets.

I've only managed 15km so far, but I'm sure I'll be chasing 30km soon. Is Jason Patterson's 30623m entry the highest normal rocket (sorry, I didn't sift through the entire thread)?

[totalitor]

I do agree - should be only rockets. I did 31893 m with only rockets. The scorelist should be refresh.

[OBEY_ThisSmurF]

I had to sign up just to post my screenshot haha

Think i'm up there now

No I did not use debug menu or any cheats.

[Ezriilc]

I had to sign up just to post my screenshot haha

Think i'm up there now

No I did not use debug menu or any cheats.http://puu.sh/a1o48/7c3ca1c6b3.png

Nice.

I have lots of questions - like how did you do it / what's your design? Can we get pics of the ship?

[OBEY_ThisSmurF]

Nice.

I have lots of questions - like how did you do it / what's your design? Can we get pics of the ship?

Sure let me just take some pics I had to leave to do some stuff.

I had to sign up just to post my screenshot haha

Think i'm up there now

No I did not use debug menu or any cheats.http://puu.sh/a1o48/7c3ca1c6b3.png

Picture of the ship requested by Ezriilc ,

Just using the latest Kerbodyne parts.

Edited July 8, 2014 by Specialist290
Mering sequential posts.

[Sauron]

Sure let me just take some pics I had to leave to do some stuff.

Picture of the ship requested by Ezriilc ,

Just using the latest Kerbodyne parts.

http://puu.sh/a1ukH/959f80bde1.png

...As well as TweakScale. Which doesn't balance quite right (at all). Especially with the KR-2X. So no, you're not quite stock.

[Redshift OTF]

I made 63,177 m!

All stock, no debug menu, although it does massively use the infini-principle. But that wasn't in the rules.

[Ezriilc]

I made 63,177 m!

http://i.imgur.com/UuJgnMZ.jpg

All stock, no debug menu, although it does massively use the infini-principle. But that wasn't in the rules.

http://i.imgur.com/Tw15uum.jpg

Yea - not a rocket.