Super Heavy Lifter to Eeloo (160 parts only!)

[Frida Space]

Hey guys, today I wanted to show you my newest super heavy lifter: the NEW GIACOBBO, capable of bringing a relatively large manned lander safely on the surface of Eeloo, the small snowball at the edge of the Kerbol system. I hope you guys enjoy this design. It has less than 160 parts.

It is a very reliable and stable launcher, thanks to the hundreds of struts, winglets and sepatrons I always put on my rockets. If you have a manned capsule, you don't even need RCS, if you're note planning on doing some docking action. As always, feel free to point out things that i could have designed/built/... better, although for this particular design I think there's not a lot that could be done to make it even better.

I don't like writing very detailed ascent profiles: after all, it's here for YOU to fly it, and everyone in the community has its own style of flying and crashing things. But here are some useful tips:

- don't start immediately with your gravity turn. The rocket is relatively fast and sensible to your commands, but it still takes some time to move it around. Start turning when you are already at a high altitude.

- the rocket is very heavy and so it is also very, very slow. You'll get to 100m/s after 1m30s from liftoff, and not before two minutes after you'll get to 200m/s. After that, things should speed up.

- throttle to 98-99%. Don't go 100%, cause after a couple of minutes the main mainsail engine (the only engine with gimbal-control) will slightly overheat.

This rocket features two stages. The first stage is a Mainsail engine, with 4 liquid booster (each with 4 LV-T309) to which are attached other 8 solid rocket boosters. I've gone for an asparagus staging: I know it is not very popular at the moment, but I still figured out it would be the most fuel-efficient solution. The second stage features a nuclear engine. This will get you all the way to Eeloo, although the transfer burn might take up to half an hour.

For the lander design, you can copy mine. Don't add too much extra mass though, or else you might need a refueling mission to get all the way to Eeloo.

Sorry again for my English, I'm from Italy

Have a nice day everybody!

Craft download: http://www./download/izfrxijei8ctn3g/New_Giacobbo.craft