What's the Largest Rocket you've ever built? Interplanetary and Launchers Mostly

[bigyihsuan]

Before the NASA parts came out, I built an incredibly large asparagus 2.5m modded launcher using NovaPunch parts. 300 tons to orbit, usually with fuel in the core stage to spare.

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[Rarity]

A very modest 4,000 tons on launch with stock parts.

[Cripion101]

This is making my achievements look very small.

*Sigh* back to the drawing board.

[Red Iron Crown]

This is making my achievements look very small.

*Sigh* back to the drawing board.

Small is actually harder to do well than large, IMO. The screenshots aren't as impressive, though.

[Starlionblue]

Small is actually harder to do well than large, IMO. The screenshots aren't as impressive, though.

Totally agreed. I am trying to go as light as possible but with Eve it is hard to shave the tonnage.

I have some new ideas though.

[Major999]

Mostly designed as a tanker, this lifts 600 tons to orbit in just 2 stages. Not huge, but undeniably big. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL DESCRIPTION AND DOWNLOAD (Or click on my signature)

[Benno]

The Joolian, flown up and assembled in orbit the hard way:

[TheOrqwithVagrant]

Aaah... I haven't built anything truly huge lately, but this was "The Hulk", my RSS Launcher for particularly bulky payloads, and certainly the largest craft I ever constructed:

Nowhere near as cool or intricate as many of the designs here, but RSS + full realism overhaul do favor more minimalistic designs. The entire middle structure is pretty much all fairing space - 25m wide and 60 or so tall - lots of volume. For a little perspective, each of the side boosters of The Hulk is wider than a Saturn V.

I brought ~600 tons to orbit with it, but it had dV and TWR to spare, so it could do more. It was surprisingly reliable.

The second picture is what was inside - the science/living section of a very large interplanetary research craft. The propulsive unit launched itself, and was itself almost the size of the Hulk launcher.

[Ezriilc]

Well, I'm a bit late to this thread, and my rocket isn't really new any more, but she's pretty big, so here ya go.

I give you Kolsys 8.

The Kolsys series isn't big for big sake, they're meant to explore the entire system. All my ships and their full stats can be found in the Craft Kitchen.

[Renegrade]

The craft on the right:

Is the "lightweight" BTSM Moho Express return craft.

She's 2774 tons on the launchpad, 12 stages of variable-sized asparagus, and 386.230 tons in orbit of Kerbin with 9.7km/sec of delta-v. Once she's in Moho orbit (pictured), she's massing in at 60.68t has 4.1km/sec left, plenty for an express trip back home with minimal life support.

I can't get any more recent shots as she's too big to fit on a BTSM launchpad in modern versions (or even versions released shortly after that shot was taken).

That's the biggest single-launch vessel I've ever fielded as far as I'm aware, as I generally prefer convoys of much smaller craft:

[Lucario]

Hmmm.... can it be with mods? :3

[Roflcopterkklol]

Still my largest rocket to date, never been very good at building rockets i have always been more of a SSTO kinda guy.

First stage engines

Full view on lift off.

Second stage

Third stage

Fourth stage

Carrier stage

De orbiting on the mun (im not 100% sure how far one of these rockets will go i have only ever taken these to the mun and minmus. but they will go further)

Can find the download link/flight instructions on my forum if anyone wants to test how far they can take one of these.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/109004-Roflcopterkklol-Industries-is-back!-0-90-craft

[LABHOUSE]

(Life size) Saturn V Apollo 15 replica

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I will release it when I am able to take pictures of the entire mission (I cannot dock anyway, so it may be a while).

Edited February 14, 2015 by LABHOUSE

[PB666]

2.5kT

[Sufficient Anonymity]

Confession - the largest thing I've flown in my current career is this:

[Starhawk]

This is the Enormous Eve Expedition.

It took three Kerbals in a Mk1-2 pod to 61 metres above sea level on Eve. And brought them home.

9033.7 tonnes and 1171 parts. Here's the album.

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Edited February 24, 2015 by Starhawk

[Mr Tegu]

space freighter (~1800 tons to orbit, all stock no cheats):

full stats and download available via my sig

Edited February 24, 2015 by Mr Tegu

[Mr Tegu]

Small is actually harder to do well than large, IMO. The screenshots aren't as impressive, though.

efficiency is what make small hard and that get even harder with size...

[Riisos]

Is there a way to post images directly from my screen shots folder? Sorry if this is a bonehead question just can't seem to get images up, section on uploading said hosting elsewhere was preferred but I think it should still work and I'm just doing it wrong. Have a grand ship I would like to share here.

[Norpo]

Is there a way to post images directly from my screen shots folder? Sorry if this is a bonehead question just can't seem to get images up, section on uploading said hosting elsewhere was preferred but I think it should still work and I'm just doing it wrong. Have a grand ship I would like to share here.

It won't work, the forums would have to store it on it's own server, which it just doesn't support.

You'll have to use an image hosting service, like imgur: http://www.imgur.com/

[PB666]

Lurch told me you rang.

http://imgur.com/a/vtr4I

A nice selection of some of my works.

#EDIT: Also, come on! That thread title is about as Whackjob-bait as it gets.

Were you deprived of access to an erector set when you were a child or something like that?

[Flixxbeatz]

ATOR Denebola. Largest real world-ish lifter on my fleet so far, rated at 120 tons (not yet tested the full potential so far). Mission report here. And yes, those are mainsails under.

But that pales in comparison to the largest lifter I've ever build: the Bahamut, built during the times when putting not enough struts would mean imminent doom.

I call this monstrosity The Towering Infernoâ„¢. Does it deliver huge payloads to orbit? No. Does it take large amounts of crew and equipment to another planets? No. Does it have any other purpose than being big? No. Did it crash my poor laptop dozens of times? Yes.

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Last stage. Final velocity was 13430 m/s.

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Final velocity?

Ahh the good ol' pre-0.11 days

Edited February 24, 2015 by Flixxbeatz

[Riisos]

Okay, thanks for the help, hopefully this will work:

The Dominion Inquisitor - Crew compliment of around 70, 2 atmospheric fighters, 4 small space vehicles with grabbing arms, 2 complete science shuttles/bases each with 2 rovers, an additional 2 rovers on the bottom, over a dozen long distance satellites, four deploy-able buoys (these and most of the others all have all scientific measuring devices and communications), almost a dozen guided missiles, enormous solar array and quad-triple xenon engine capable of accelerating in deep space for days and days. All built and successfully launched manually, mechjeb added later because the lag was so bad launches took hours.

[Random Tank]

Aircraft Carriers.... IN SPAAAACCE!

[PB666]

Lurch told me you rang.

A nice selection of some of my works.

#EDIT: Also, come on! That thread title is about as Whackjob-bait as it gets.

How about craft that can actually go somewhere

http://i.imgur.com/UsRBWkQ.png