No Strut Space Program

[Dead Pixel]

How Long Can Your Rockets Last With Absolutely no struts, Post your video attempts, This challenge will be really hard for complicated rockets

[Xeldrak]

Hm...you should post some goals beyong "how long can you go". Maybe dv or altitude....

[SirJodelstein]

Regardless of the somewhat vague rules, i like this challenge. I guess we are suppost to post crazy working rockets that don't use struts

Here is my humble entry to get this started: No Struts Mk1. Accelleration at liftoff has to be reduced, but other than that its a fine rocket, the top part can reach a stable orbit if flown properly (58.2 tons payload to LKO)

Also, no asparagus

[Mygnol]

Decided to go a little ambitious on this one, seeing the vague rules.

TOTALLY WORKING AS INTENDED.

[Coneshot]

Decided to go a little ambitious on this one, seeing the vague rules.

~snip~

TOTALLY WORKING AS INTENDED.

OMG, WTH is that thing??!!

[Mygnol]

OMG, WTH is that thing??!!

Going into space using nothing but toroidal fuel tanks.

FOR SCIENCE.

[astropapi1]

OMG, WTH is that thing??!!

That, is the magic of toroidal tanks, my friend.

EDIT: Here's an example:

Edited July 30, 2013 by astropapi1

[Kmuster]

and another.

[Kmuster]

Finally got my standard inter-planetary rocket into orbit! (took some design tweaking and quite a few attempts though...) On my way to Dres!

[Kmuster]

Can get into low orbit (with some difficulty ) and land on nearby planets and return (in progress).

[billybobsatan]

*that moment when your computer is so bad that struts lag it too much so you don't use them*

[greg12]

Your slogan should be:

"Struts are so overrated!"