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[RunaDacino]

I bring you another SSTO, now with commentated FAR readouts and a test flight!

 

https://imgur.com/a/0kOifrU

 

This one's stated goal is to get to minmus, land and return to Kerbin.

[Vanamonde]

3 hours ago, RunaDacino said:

I bring you another SSTO, now with commentated FAR readouts and a test flight!

 

https://imgur.com/a/0kOifrU

 

This one's stated goal is to get to minmus, land and return to Kerbin.

This is a large plane. 

[Lyra]

Happy page 200 everyone!

[RunaDacino]

On 5/21/2024 at 5:58 AM, Vanamonde said:

This is a large plane. 

Update: it had successfully landed on Minmus, and actually returned to the runway in one piece! https://imgur.com/a/kdxLoEe

 

Made heavy use of Thrust Controlled Avionics for the VTOL style Minmus landing to ensure thrust is balanced and we're vertical

[Mr. Kerbin]

I have 3 SSTO's.

1. The Donnager class, which is totally not a ripoff of one of Matt Lowne's SSTO's!

These are for the cargo version. Wet Mass = 45.554 tons. Dry Mass = 18.184 tons. Payload = 3.5 tons.

2. The Skylon class, which has gone through five different versions!

Wet Mass (cargo ver) = 182.145 tons. Dry mass = 44.495 tons. Cargo = 20 tons. Crew (crew ver)= 48

3. The Energia class, the most powerful. Capable of lifting 45 tons and have ~700 Delta V left!

Wet Mass = 425.948 tons. Dry Mass = 79.948 tons. Tested Payload = 45 tons. Potential Max Crew = 64

Edited July 20, 2024 by Mr. Kerbin
corrected stuff

[Riglen]

my first non-rapier engine ssto 

34.225 T wet mass and 13.225 T dry it carries 2 passengers and a pilot with RCS and a port for docking along with plenty of delta-v (800+ after LKO) it has just enough liquid fuel to reach 20k meters with a stable 5-15 degree flight path and have less than 20 delta-v after using all the rocket fuel also the wet and dry COM are in the exact same spot providing good performance no matter the fuel level

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198409027321/screenshot/2460739118164056893/

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198409027321/screenshot/2460739118164053161/

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198409027321/screenshot/2460739118164054347/

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198409027321/screenshot/2460739118164060042/

also i don't know how to insert images because it won't work for me

Edited August 2, 2024 by Riglen

[Lyra]

Here is Micron-12, a tiny SSTO for three that can fit in a Mk3 cargo bay. Fully capable of docking and up to 600 m/s of dV in LKO.

https://imgur.com/LVkkrXd

Edited September 20, 2024 by Lyra

[Second Hand Rocket Science]

Might try and make a thread for my terrible unique designs. Last time I did that it got abandoned though... so for now here's a rudimentary blueprint in the style I'd like to go for, heavily inspired by an old creator on here called Raptor9. Shame he deleted all his fantastic work.

Edited October 2, 2024 by Second Hand Rocket Science

[Second Hand Rocket Science]

Decided to dump all my SSTOs since in the time it's taken to make the above blueprint a grand total of TWO (2!) new SSTOs have entered service!

K-002 Guardian class, built for LKO resupply missions. Far too much power from 2x Broadswords. About 750 m/s of Delta V in an 80 x 80 km orbit, if piloted correctly.

Spoiler

Maiden flight. There were no events of note. Unlike her brethren, the K-002 is generally quite boring.

The K-004 Guardian class, the by far biggest and best operational craft in the fleet. Originally built without high hopes as a tech demonstrator for the KH-Series Fuselage, she turned out to be able to carry more cargo, faster, higher, and more efficiently, than any other SSTOs in the fleet. Despite this however, a fuel imbalance killed the crew of the maiden flight, which was a gigantic oversight on the part of the Enterprises. Such a grievous error will definitely never happen again. 1200 m/s of Delta V (unloaded) in a 100 x 100 km orbit.

Spoiler

Maiden flight

Beginning re-entry. Captain Fredorf has no idea this will be her last few minutes alive.

The K-004 Terminator enters a flatspin during re-entry much like the K-001 Ranger has been known to do. The captain, knowing the entire air frame is completely heat resistant, calmly engages RCS thrusters and attempts to correct the spin. She wasn't to know that unlike the Ranger, who could be easily recovered during re-entry, the Terminator was completely unflyable dry due to an imbalance in the remaining fuel, and would not be able to escape the spin.

Another 10km into the atmosphere and the craft is still spinning wildly. The crew are beginning to get nervous. Due to extreme G-Forces, this is the last image recorded of the maiden flight of the Terminator. On-board telemetry shows that at around 5 km the nose pitched 90 degrees downwards and Captain Fredorf was attempting an extremely risky manoeuvre to regain airspeed and pitch up. At around 150 m/s the captain pitched up hard, and the craft was almost stable when it slammed into the Kerlantic Ocean and disintegrated on impact. All crew aboard were killed instantly in the first and hopefully last crew fatality in the history of the Enterprises.  

 

Making my own thread is looking better and better...

Edited October 6, 2024 by Second Hand Rocket Science
Added a little more information

[RedAl1en1]

i have no idea how to  post pictures

[Vanamonde]

10 hours ago, RedAl1en1 said:

i have no idea how to  post pictures

Upload them to a sharing service like Imgur and copy the link that provides into your posts here. 

[Natso]

S-400 Air Defense in action

 

[pinolallo]

My SSTO working fleet.

Small Shuttle (flashNight)

 

Heavy Shuttle

SuperHeavy

Medium Shuttle

much more here
https://imgur.com/gallery/ssto-fleet-BN4VeYz

 

Edited December 16, 2024 by pinolallo
added image

[aeirvx]

A piggyback payload launcher, using only Panthers and Thuds...cause I have no tech. It has the imaginative name of General Purpose Launch Vehicle 1.1 or GPLV 1.1.

When the thuds take over the TWR gets kinda sketchy for a minute or two before you have total control over your Ap again.

The payload is headed for the mun, and is about 4.5 tons, with one tourist and a lot of science equipment on board. The tourist contract had to be done, else I'd have brought Bob.

Orbital insertion was a real long burn, cause the COM offset only got worse as the launch stage burned more of its fuel...this'll need some ironing. We made it into orbit with like 40-odd m/s left.

Reentry and descent were fine; I had to power up the Panthers in dry mode at low throttle to make it the last few km to the KSC.

The payload itself is off to the Mun; it will enter a highly eccentric orbit to get space high & low (&bc that's all I have dV for...). It has wings and such bc it is actually a plane too; it reenters as a spaceplane and glides back to land, ideally at the KSC. At first I tried trying to reenter multiple connected mk1 pods or a crew cabin, but those kept ramming into the ground @ mach 2 without a chance to deploy chutes. So I made planes for multi-kerbal missions. Which are atrocious to launch with rockets and anyway, sstos are more cost-effective, right?

Here it is performing trans-munar injection:

It's called the Munaer, because it's a mun-plane and I didn't like the the sound of keeping the o on the end of it.

Here's the full album: https://imgur.com/a/sU8qyOH

Edited Tuesday at 02:34 AM by aeirvx
Add imgur album

[Vanamonde]

Impressive. My planes usually fail to reach orbit at all, let alone deliver something after they do.