Surprisingly stable ship

[chemieglennie]

I'm not sure why this ship is so stable. The hours I've wasted making neat asparagus staging only to get wobbles, spirals and instability.

I did this in about 20 minutes after modifying my lander. No winglets, no RCS and it's the most stable ship I've ever flown into obrbit. It lifted almost 80Mg.

(This is the first time I've inserted an image. Hope it works.)

The gimbals are enough for all steering to get into orbit. Also because it's an open design I had no problems with spent stages bumping into anything else.

I think all my launchers will now be based on this design.

Edited May 23, 2013 by chemieglennie

[HoY]

I use a similar design for my insanely heavy lift launchers, except 4x symmetry instead of 2x

[sporkafife]

Jeb also looks suitably impressed by its stability

[Deadweasel]

I'm not sure why this ship is so stable. The hours I've wasted making neat asparagus staging only to get wobbles, spirals and instability.

I did this in about 20 minutes after modifying my lander. No winglets, no RCS and it's the most stable ship I've ever flown into obrbit. It lifted almost 80Mg.

(This is the first time I've inserted an image. Hope it works.)

The gimbals are enough for all steering to get into orbit. Also because it's an open design I had no problems with spent stages bumping into anything else.

I think all my launchers will now be based on this design.

I think that looks like a suitably insane (and fun) design! I have a small suggestion to add, but feel free to tell me off if you already know: Mainsails will not overheat if you place something (like a small fuel tank) between them and the orange tanks. No idea why, but that's apparently how it works.

[Vanamonde]

I think you meant "inexplicably" stable ship. By the way, it would be much easier to fly your gravity turn if you rotate the ship 90 degress in the VAB before launch.

[chemieglennie]

Didn't think to rotate it 90°. I guess I could just select the command pod and rotate the whole thing.

Overheating wasn't a problem because I had excess thrust. I'll have to modify the design to lift something bigger though. This lander got to Laythe and back. Next mission is Moho.