Show Me some of your Interplanetary Rockets (Any Mod except I.I, Antigrav, Hyperedit)

[JJJacksonTyler]

Come on! Show me your capable rockets that can use ANY mod except Impossible Innovations, Antigravity In-The-Box, or Hyperedit. I want real rockets here, people! Anyways...here's mine.

The Saturn 1! Capable of reaching Eeloo and returning to Kerbin. The launch vehicle is made of KW Rocketry parts, while most of the main spacecraft is made by stock parts. At the time, I did not know how to rendezvous, or dock....so this space craft takes off and comes back as a single rocket. (Staging also). It has 4 Inboard launch engines, and 4 Outboard launch SRB's designed to cut off 5 seconds before the inboards. Here are the specs...courtesy of MechJeb.

Total Weight: 531.3 Tons

Thrust at Launch: 8050 Kilonewtons (kN)

Velocity Capability with first stage: 3,400 M/s (That's right, it can almost escape the sphere of influence...IN THE FIRST STAGE. BAAAAHHH!

Here is it a few seconds after launch...

FEEL THE BURRRNNN....

Now we are doing business!

The CSM (Command-Service Module) In orbit around Eeloo

May have been one small step for Neil...but it's one hell of a leap for me!

Good to be home. Miss me? I went on a field trip....TO PLUTO! Ahem....Eeloo.

*EDIT*

I've been getting reports that my images are dead links. I can view them...but I re-uploaded them...? If they still are PM me if you truly care. XD

Edited June 19, 2013 by JJJacksonTyler
Dead Links

[jordanjay29]

All your images are dead links.

Here's my first interplanetary ship, the IPV-001 Enterprise (I'm a Trekkie, so sue me!). It was a one-stage, one-shot ship to Eve. I'm surprised I even got it up in one piece, but after a quick refuel at Minmus, it performed beautifully.

The only thing I didn't think about was getting back...

Enter IPV-003 (unnamed for now). Oh, and don't ask about IPV-002, you don't want to know. So IPV-003 is a tad more ambitious, and much bigger. The core ship is fairly similar, some different solar panels, but the same basic idea. The big difference is the docking ports all over the place, which let me build the ship how it needs to be for a mission. The addition of the large fuel tank allows me to use smaller engines around the core, drawing from the larger tank, and prevent wobble from the unstrutted engines.

The ship isn't fully assembled yet, but this gives you an idea of what it will look like. Imagine the 3 other secondary engines (which burn liquid fuel for in-orbit manuevers) and the large rocket on the end (everything after the strip of blue solar panels, basically anything that's pure white) gone to reveal the large, ion engine (courtesy of Deep Space Mod). I'll probably add a probe or two on the ends, and hopefully some landers.

Most of the parts are from Deep Space Mod, AIES, Spherical Fuel Tanks or KW Rocketry. Maybe a tad of Kosmos thrown in for good measure (certainly nothing essential, though).

[Spartwo]

a nice anywhere but tylo lander

(old picture since then new rover,new compund landing engine lv-N45 so it can land on tylo.)

[Sufficient Anonymity]

Prospero, a heavy interplanetary cruiser, propelled by the Orion nuclear pulse drive:

The cargo bays and solar panels are closed and retracted respectively when under acceleration. There's one current design flaw, namely massively insufficient amounts of monoprop. I have to be fairly conservative with RCS use when turning, and thus I can end up waiting a good 5-10 minutes for her to come about fully (but then she is around 700 tonnes).

Due to the issues with Prospero, I made a few refinements and ended up with an improved cruiser design - thanks to radiation concerns she's a drone, rather than a manned vessel, and has some ridiculously oversized RCS thrusters (they're the low profile B9 liquid-fueled thrusters). She still handles like a brick when in atmo, but at least she no longer takes forever to come about. Anyway, presenting Caliban

Proof of handling like a brick - one incredibly sloppy orbit (I'll circularise it nicely later to dock Laythe station components):

Addendum - before I criticise my own ships too much, I should probably point out that pilot error could well be to blame (and does anyone know the spaceflight blood alcohol limit?)

Edited June 16, 2013 by SufficientAnonymity
typos

[jordanjay29]

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My god, that's a big ship!

What mods are you using?

[Sufficient Anonymity]

@jordanjay29

I think it's just these for Prospero and Caliban:

B9

MechJeb 2.0.x

Orion

RLA Stockalike

Also, here are some crafts:

http://www./download/xq7kl1ds4sw8hkh/Prospero.craft

http://www./download/w6wtamwpic0cwln/Caliban.craft

[JJJacksonTyler]

Your rocket is FANTASTIC looking...very very cool indeed! Thank you for shining some light on Spherical Fuel Tanks...definitely something I will want to play around with in the future. Good Job, Explorer!

[OUScooby]

Come on! Show me your capable rockets that can use ANY mod except Impossible Innovations, Antigravity In-The-Box, or Hyperedit. I want real rockets here, people! Anyways...here's mine.

The Saturn 1! Capable of reaching Eeloo and returning to Kerbin. The launch vehicle is made of KW Rocketry parts, while most of the main spacecraft is made by stock parts. At the time, I did not know how to rendezvous, or dock....so this space craft takes off and comes back as a single rocket. (Staging also). It has 4 Inboard launch engines, and 4 Outboard launch SRB's designed to cut off 5 seconds before the inboards. Here are the specs...courtesy of MechJeb.

Total Weight: 531.3 Tons

Thrust at Launch: 8050 Kilonewtons (kN)

Velocity Capability with first stage: 3,400 M/s (That's right, it can almost escape the sphere of influence...IN THE FIRST STAGE. BAAAAHHH!

Here is it a few seconds after launch...

FEEL THE BURRRNNN....

Now we are doing business!

The CSM (Command-Service Module) In orbit around Eeloo

May have been one small step for Neil...but it's one hell of a leap for me!

Good to be home. Miss me? I went on a field trip....TO PLUTO! Ahem....Eeloo.

*EDIT*

I've been getting reports that my images are dead links. I can view them...but I re-uploaded them...? If they still are PM me if you truly care. XD

What engines are powering that? I only see one small fuel tank, how on Kerbin did you have enough fuel to make it back from Eeloo?

[JJJacksonTyler]

Well when I started this thread I was pretty new to forum posting, and did not have complete photographs of the entire mission. I took a big chunk out because I didn't want 11 pics on the same page. (Space hog!)

I send up two rockets, one is practically a giant fuel tank, one is the Saturn 1. I rendezvous around the target planet with the fuel tank/engine combo and steam back towards Kerbin.