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[benjiful9000]

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Edited July 4, 2021 by benjiful9000
Cleaning house

[Nao]

Argh, and just today i build this for another chllenge:

4000km traveled in 10minutes (almost 10km/s, 2minutes after launch, probably on Kerbol escape velocity) 49995 units of solid fuel.

It uses separatrons on the last stages (around 2000m/s Dv gained from them) so it's invalid. But it does felt awesome to return to good old stack boosters, no radial decouplers design (was it .10 or maybe even before that when we didn't have radial decouplers).

edit: before somebody post's a valid submission, you may want to have more restricting rules as it is really easy do do Kerbol escape with them, thus making scoring quite diffiult with infinity meters of altitude.

Cheers!

Edited May 12, 2013 by Nao

[SmallChange]

So, is a Kerbol escape infinite points?

[Phoenix Aerospace]

Sometimes, in space, less is more. 7 SRBs, 6 small decouplers, a small probe core, an RTG, and an SAS got me on a Kerbol escape trajectory.

On the pad:

Launch:

Space!?:

SPAAAAAACE!:

Flight data:

To be honest, I didn't expect to get this far. However, it was still a load of fun.

[SmallChange]

Phoenix, you beat me to it!

[Phoenix Aerospace]

...So I did! Yay me!

I'm still impressed by what that thing can do. I only expected it to get 10 or so kilometers of altitude. In conclusion, SRBs are hilariously OP on small craft, as their near-empty TWR is simply extraordinary.

[occar]

Yeah, with not that many of these, you can get out past jool and eeloo in 70-100 days.

[Rhomphaia]

On the launchpad, Ribely isn't looking too nervous yet

As the first stage goes the gravity turn starts early, The magnitude of Ribely's situation dawns upon him as he realizes that he has very little control over where this rocket is going, sheer luck has him pointing prograde.

With Just 2 boosters left nearly in orbit, maybe firing one at apoapsis will get you there

Or maybe it will get you a Munar gravity assist launching you out of the Kerbin system

Byeee

Forgot to grab a screenshot before firing that last booster, but ended up a little short of Duna, saved the booster till poor Ribely had returned to his Perihelion, then launched him further out

I'll check back with him from time to time as from the looks of his orbit an eventual Duna or Kerbin encounter is not entirely out of the question and he still has a parachute.

[Nalin_Airheart]

Here's my entry, more pictures in the album. --> www.flickr.com/photos/95460760@N03

2013-05-12_00002 by Nalin_Airheart, on Flickr

It escaped at 4845.4m/s with the pod.

After 500 days it was at 223534451.478 KM or 223,534,451,478m

Edited May 12, 2013 by Nalin_Airheart

[Ojimak]

People at this link have reached the sun with only the RT-10s as part of another challenge. I don't know how that should count for points in your challenge, but I felt like it should at least be mentioned.

-Ojimak

[sparty48]

I think It should be 0 points with escape velocity...

[Phoenix Aerospace]

Honestly, seeing how easy it is to launch stuff into a solar escape using solid boosters, I think it would be more of a challenge to see the maximum payload that could be carried into orbit, using only RT-10s. Using a slightly modified version of my Kerbol escape craft, I just barely got a capsule into orbit, showing that they are really only OP for extremely light craft.

[Holo]

Just have scoring based on speed at infinity for solar escapes.

[John FX]

I like challenges like this. Sometimes you revisit an old part from a few versions ago and find it still has uses, just not the same ones. A small motor with a large final TWR can have its uses, especially during landings I think.