Allo! Orbitting is hard, lets do maths...

[Senji]

After a few days I\'ve finally managed to sustain an orbit (although I made a mistake trying to circularize it and clipped the atmosphere with no fuel left). Not exactly an elegant ship to do it though, I call her Kerbal Explorer 5?.

So, having achieved that it\'s time to look at Addons. Which are on my 'must get' list, and which are 'kinda nice'?

[Capt'n Skunky]

Welcome to the KSP Forums!

Happy Launching!

Arrr!

Capt\'n Skunky

[your mom]

hers my favorite addons i got every new version of ksp

c-7 flight pack

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=1172.0

[v1.3!] Silisko Industries Doughnut Research & Spacecraft Development or SIDR

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=1109.0

and one of the newest addons i love

[v0.2]KSP - Silisko Edition

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=2925.0

and welcome to the fourms

[Commander Zoom]

I use Silisko\'s parts (SIDR), above, as well as Sunday Punch\'s 'Wobbly Rockets' pack: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=79.0

As I\'m still playing with proper rockets, not these crazy newfangled spaceplanes, these two parts packs suffice for my purposes.

[Ivan Ivanovich]

Holy sh...! What a friggin\' huge rocket for such a low orbit!

My guess is that you\'re lifting way too much dead weight to make it efficient. Try this:

1 Parachute

1 Capsule

1 Decoupler

4 liquid tanks

1 liquid engine

6 boosters around the bottom.

Fire boosters and liquid engine at the same time and jettison the boosters as soon as they\'re running dry. That should easily be good for a circular orbit around 80-100k.

[mojoey]

nah, let him do it wrong a few times, and let him learn a lesson....never ever leave home with out 10+boosters