SSTO Concept 4

[cpt_nosh]

Hello dear Community

Since this is a part where one can exchange one's spacecraft, I thought I might want to join you and begin with presenting my favorite SSTO so far.

It more or less easily went up to my main station in a 100km Orbit around Kerbin. Ideas, suggestion and ratings are well appreciated.

Yours sincerely

cpt_nosh

Edited May 26, 2013 by cpt_nosh

[3_bit]

More details would be nice. Glide range, how to get it into orbit, etc. would be nice.

[Scoundrel]

Welcome to KSP and a good first post. The only criticisms that come to mind is the excess of jet fuel and what I suspect are two avionics packages (I'd just do 1 and use a regular nose cone in place of the other just to get more control authority). Also, I'm curious to see if you can add a docking port to the top of the ship and how heavy a payload it could carry into orbit.

[Varyon]

I've been needing a nice-looking SSTO for a while now, and I'm just terrible at them. Post a .craft file and let us take this beautiful bird out flying. I also kinda want to tear it apart to see what makes it tick...

[cpt_nosh]

Wow, thanks for the great feedback, I will try to answer all of the questions asap! Thanks again for the appreciation!

[Rune]

Even if the fuel balance is all wrong (unless you plan on circumnavigating Kerbin before going to orbit ), you sure got the aesthetics right.

Rune. And that counts in my book.

[cpt_nosh]

Okay, Since I'm just using vanilla ksp via steam and am rather new to this marvel of a game, I'm not sure if I can tell you about the possible payload, nor the glide range (This one I might find out by trying out?). To the further details: It has 5 ram jet engines which will be shut down from the out side to the inside, so I have the maximum use of them. After I shut down the first two, I ignite the liquid fuel engines and the last ram jet will be in use until it flames out by itself, then I shut down the air intakes aswell for less drag. While ascend I normally move a big load of fuel to the front so it flys even smoother.

To be honest, I made easier ones to fly. But in this case, the optics will have to pay it's price.

The thing with the fuel is, until Orbit I use quite a lot and the rest is for mostly for keeping balance. But you could probably do with less of course. Again: It's not the most economic, but looks rather decent in my opinion.

To the construction I have to say, since I had my good problems with keeping the center of mass within the limits and on the other hand making the outside looking all right, I decided to kinda use the "flaws" of the game and for adding the rcs balls, the ram intakes and two rocket fuel parts inside the jet hull. (The fact that this even is possible was only found out last Sunday... ) So I don't know, is this an accepted method or will there be flaming all over the place?

If you want I could upload some more screenshots and if you tell me how to get it, probably even the .craft file?

Yours sincerely

cpt_nosh