[Real Life Recreation] Falcon Heavy

[Rdivine]

Hello ladies and gentleman!

Behold my creation, the Falcon Heavy!

The lifter can launch more than 52 tons of mass[KSP] into low earth orbit[100km] without using fuel from the payload. 52 tons of mass is equivalent to + + +.

I am trying to imitate the real life Falcon Heavy by spaceX. Falcon Heavy is a lifter from spaceX which is capable of delivering 53 metric tons of payload into low earth orbit.

[RL] falcon heavy stats

FALCON HEAVY

Mass to LEO (200 km, 28.5 deg): 53,000 kg (117,000 lb)

Overall Length: 69.2 m (227 ft)

Width (body): 3.6 m (12 ft) x 11.6 m (38 ft)

Width (fairing): 5.2 m (17 ft)

Thrust on liftoff: 17 MN (3,800,000 lbf)

This is quite an awesome lifter. It boasts 27 merlin 1C engines which help to lift the payload into orbit.

In my imitation, i will try to recreate this awesome lifter.

(Spoilers didn't work, i beg your pardon )

VAB pictures

Starting spacecraft module

This is the payload being sent to low earth orbit

Subassembly saver would help alot.

What the launcher looks like

Boasting its 20 booster engines and 7 vectoring engines.

Sideways view[iphone style]

Launch sequences album:

http://goo.gl/Stmdd

Launch sequence:

1. 10 seconds to launch. Throttle up and enable SAS using T.

2. Liftoff! Remain throttle at max power until speed reaches 97m/s or altitute reaches 1km.

3. Follow the optimum ascend speed. This saves most fuel.

Altitute Velocity

1km 110m/s

2km 120m/s

3km 130m/s

4km 145m/s

5km 160m/s

6km 178m/s

7km 196m/s

8km 215m/s

9km 238m/s

10km 260m/s

4. Remain throttle from 10 to 15km. tilt to your inclination at a deg. of 5.

5. When twin boosters run out of fuel, jettison, wait for 3 seconds then throttle up to maximum power.

6. Now tilt directly to 45degrees and remain until apoapsis reaches 100km.

7. Circularise your orbit, then jettison the lifter.

8. Congratulations! You are now in space!

Spacecraft download:

http://goo.gl/M06XW

Thank you, happy Kerballing!

-Rdivine

[T3E]

Thanks a lot!

I was actually designing today a rocket for my first space station in low orbit, but had really trouble with it.

Will give it a try for sure in the next few days.

Cheers

[Flixxbeatz]

Falcon Heavy you say?

Note the engine placement. Each of them was placed one by one, due to how complicated clustering works. Also tried to make it as realistic as possible by adding nosecones each engine (except the middle one). Oh - and no part clipping involved

On a related note, here's a Falcon 9:

Edited May 17, 2013 by Flixxbeatz

[firerider521]

Oh - and no part clipping involved

What sorcery is this?!

[Giggleplex777]

What sorcery is this?!

Radial attachment points, maybe?

[Flixxbeatz]

Radial attachment points, maybe?

Nope, Cubic Octagonal Struts. I made those things back in 0.18.2 and for sure they would be easier to build now because of RAPs. As for the nosecones above the outer engines, I've put them one by one (since putting them in symmetry didn't work at all) and rotated them so that the black side faces out.

[AmpsterMan]

It seems we all have a Falcon Heavy Vehicle. I deleted mine some time ago for a Angara Style rocket. I might be using both for later on.

1+ to OP btw

[Rdivine]

Note the engine placement. Each of them was placed one by one, due to how complicated clustering works. Also tried to make it as realistic as possible by adding nosecones each engine (except the middle one). Oh - and no part clipping involved

Perhaps your design is a falcon 9v1.0?

-Rdivine

[LABHOUSE]

I suggest a kerbodyne engine and tank for correct colour and size. Go to the wiki to see my tutorial.

Edited April 30, 2014 by LABHOUSE

[astropapi1]

I suggest a kerosene engine and tank for correct colour and size. Go to the wiki to see my tutorial.

Maybe he would go if you hadn't taken a year-old thread back to life...

[Vanamonde]

Oh my. The info in this thread really doesn't seem to be current anymore. We're closing it now.