Pico Space Program

[Gojira]

The Ike-1 was designed to be as minimalistic as possible so that it is both a challenging and fun to fly (at least for me).

Oh well

Then again, the Angara works as a nice launcher for any small probe or rover you can design...

Edited August 20, 2013 by Gojira

[mushroomman]

This kind of makes me wonder, by building rockets of this size, assuming measurements are scaled down as well, would it be possible to make the game in a 1:1 scale universe by simply building small rockets?

[Giggleplex777]

Are you rebuilding Angara?

Yes, but they will have lower performance (no asparagus).

[Gojira]

Gonna keep the current ones, because I like those. Subassemblies will come as necessary.

[Giggleplex777]

The first Angara 1.1 is launch with a dummy payload.

[Giggleplex777]

I think it's too powerful.

[Giggleplex777]

This just looks so cool:

[Giggleplex777]

Angara A7:

[Gojira]

That doesn't look "pico" anymore

[Giggleplex777]

That doesn't look "pico" anymore

It's smaller than sgt_flyer's 2m Angara A7.

I think it looks more like the A7 than my first attempt.

Edited August 21, 2013 by Giggleplex777

[astropapi1]

Hay dood. what happenned to the DL Links? I wanted to steal your technology test the SV and N1.

[Giggleplex777]

Hay dood. what happenned to the DL Links? I wanted to steal your technology test the SV and N1.

This is the 0.20 front page: 605535

[astropapi1]

This is the 0.20 front page: 605535

Thanks!

I really like the way you use the small solar panels for different things such as "winglets" and engine fairings.

[Giggleplex777]

Updated the Delta II:

Now with 9 boosters!

Probably the first 9 booster delta II in KSP too.

Also, Delta II with a 2.5 ton dummy payload:

Edited August 24, 2013 by Giggleplex777

[Spartwo]

What's classed as pico?

[astropapi1]

What's classed as pico?

Tiny I guess.

[Giggleplex777]

What's classed as pico?

If the base size is 1.25m (1.25m center tank, 0.625m boosters), then it's "pico".

[EvilotionCR2]

When cash comes,you will be the biggest millionaire (english isn't my first language but you know what I mean right?)

[esinohio]

It's time.

These are just stunning. The detail is amazing. How long did it take to bang these out in the VAB? Also, this might be a completely nub'ish question but how did you get those tanks to come together near the top of each stage on the Soyuz and on the bottom stage of the other rocket shown.

[Giggleplex777]

These are just stunning. The detail is amazing. How long did it take to bang these out in the VAB? Also, this might be a completely nub'ish question but how did you get those tanks to come together near the top of each stage on the Soyuz and on the bottom stage of the other rocket shown.

The Saturn V took longer than the N1. There were actually two versions of the Saturn V. The first one was build back in 0.18, and the second in 0.20 - that's about 6 months apart! I was figuring out the technique of making the tanks bigger in the first version and it wasn't that good.

While building the second version, I realized that I can use cubic struts and solar panels to make mini fairings in which you can see between the stages of the rocket.

I built and tested the N1 within an hour.

If you turn off part clipping, you can tanks radially on a tank and rotate them into the center tank. On the N1, I simply made a core out of trusses, rotated the tanks 180 degrees, and put tanks around it.

Edited August 25, 2013 by Giggleplex777

[Giggleplex777]

[DisarmingBaton5]

Proton? Looks familiar.

[astropapi1]

-snip-

I had almost forgotten about that.

[Giggleplex777]

Proton? Looks familiar.

Actually my Proton crashed because for some reason, the staging for one of the 12 engines (the leftmost on in the picture) in the first stage was placed in the last stage and the rocket veered off course at liftoff.

[astropapi1]

Gosh, I remember that crash like it was yesterday. (Thanks, Giggleplex)

Pretty devastating, heh?