Voyager 3 - My First Interplanetary Space Craft

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My first post, my first serious ship, my first attempt to reach another planet

So as you may have guessed by the name, this is the third iteration of this design. The first consisted of 5 separate segments (Flight Module, Solar / Comms array, Cargo bay, Fuel Tanks and Engines). This became an issue very quickly as (besides the 5 flights it took to put it together) it was extremely unstable due to the large number of docking ports on the thing. I managed to get it down to a 2 flight ship (Flight, Solar, Coms and Carge as one launch, Engines and Fuel as a second launch). Although this improved thee wabble it was still unacceptable for a long duration mission

Finally I came up with a (for the most part) one flight launch, everything (except the lander which i tow behind the engines, run about shuttle docked by the coms/solar array) is a 1 flight launch (100 tons in total)

I present, Voyager 3 (on top of the largest rocket i have ever made)

As you can see i have a pretty large cargo hold, complete with a small deployable space station (Destined to be DSS) however it could of course be used to take any number of things to other planets

The Specs are as follows

1 x 5 Kerbal Flight Module

1 x 4 Kerbal Living Tank

1 x RemoteCommand module

4 x Massive Solar Panels

Lost of Coms for RemoteTech usage

10 x Micro Satellites for RemoteTech usage

1 x 3.75m Cargo Hold

8 x Nuke Engines

1 x Large Fuel Store

6K Liquid Fuel

6K Oxidiser

1500 Monopropellent

Docked i have

1 x Space Station (Cargo Bay)

1 x Planetary Lander (Towed behind the engines)

1 x Orbital runabout (docked on top of the solar arrays)

I am very proud of this ship, it has taken me over 2 months of messing and learning (and failing, many many times) the game in to get to the point where i'm able to attempt my first big mission

My Stages go like this

1) Primary Flight launched with Voyager (first image) i can get this into orbit but with no Fuel.

2) Launch second flight as a re-fueler for Voyager. Also use this opportunity to dock any extras i intest to take (more cargo, landers etc etc)

3) Dock in LKO and transfer crew, resources

4) Ready for burn

Here are a few more images

Burning from Kerbin

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Retro Burn into Duna Orbit (super close approach to IKE, scared the crap out of me)

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Just got into orbit. Going to launch my sats and attempt a landing tonight, i'll post more later

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm a noob at this game, still learning but loving!

Regards

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