Your first space probe.

[Vanamonde]

Having trouble getting your space program off the ground? Well, help is on the way from your friends at Yeahletstrythatdyne!

This is the Mk88 Vantage space probe.

When ready to launch, press 1 to activate the suite of scientific instruments, and you can monitor temperature, acceleration, local gravity, and air pressure during the flight. (To read the instruments, right-click on one, or hold alt+right-click while selecting several.) Then fire the SRB stage to get the ship climbing, and call upon the liquid fueled stage to reach and circularize orbit. As you leave atmosphere, press 2 to deploy the communications antenna and solar panels.

The basic Mk88 has a sufficient fuel supply to attain a circular orbital altitude of 900km.

Once you have peered into the mysteries of near-Kerbin space conditions, move up to the extended range Mk88 XR.

With careful piloting and fuel use, the XR model can achieve a low orbit of either of Kerbin's moons,

or even venture into interplanetary space.

Mk88b craft: obsolete

(Simply replace the small RT-10 SRB model with the large Rockomax BACC type to convert to the Mk 88 XR variant.)

Edited October 11, 2014 by Vanamonde

[Vanamonde]

Updated for 21.1. (Just removed the old SAS module.)