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

[Dr.K Kerbal]

On 5 September 2013 at 3:40 AM, BigDog said:

An entire space station.

A pusher tug, I have a puller that might come in larger but I don't think I have pics of it.

Gravity is off so I could get this pic on the pad. Stuff like this either has to launch IMMEDIATELY when the physics kicks in or gravity has to be hacked to prevent the sudden application of Kerbin's rotational force from ripping them apart.

The payload is the tug that is at the bottom, docked here with a failed (The Kraken ripped a stack off in translation) Eve lander.

This is the tallest, it is as high as the VAB would let me stack parts. It has to launch with gravity hacked since it has a less than 1 TWR. It also bucks severely. This bucking seems to start at 4 orange tanks high. It is manageable at that height, much higher though and forget it.

I have built an over 3500 part monster, but KSP died when I hit stage. Since then it has been bugged in the VAB.

I know this post was 3 years ago but OH MY GOD!

[SR]

On ‎01‎/‎01‎/‎2015 at 8:08 PM, ArmchairGravy said:

My largest booster was to lift the 125t Stanford Torus to LKO.

 

what mod does that torus use?

[Skylar']

 

[ArmchairGravy]

On 2/15/2016 at 3:52 AM, SR said:

what mod does that torus use?

Here's the link:

Stanford Torus

[The Optimist]

On 2/15/2016 at 3:54 AM, Skylar' said:

 

Yours or someone else's?

[SR]

1 hour ago, ArmchairGravy said:

Here's the link:

Stanford Torus

thanks

[Skylar']

19 hours ago, The Optimist said:

Yours or someone else's?

else

[Amianoob]

This thing was the launcher for my Eve return mission, it could put about 250 tons on an escape trajectory or land easily about 200 tons on the Mun. Weighing in at only 2700 tons at launch.

[AstraNebula]

I built a rocket that is about 1650 meters tall weighing over 135,000 tons. It did take many test flights to get it into space. It's 3 times taller than the CN Tower and nearly 2 times taller than the Burj Khalifa. It did made it into orbit around Earth in RSS mod and might be capable to go to the Moon if configured correctly.

Video: https://youtu.be/dseiZHP9ipw

[RedPandaz]

On 9/5/2013 at 6:03 PM, LostElement said:

For some reason It won't let me post pics, but the largest one I've built was about 3000 tons. As far as interplanetary goes, 100 tons. Post a pic!

My current project only has its frame complete and is at 7000000 tons. Then again, It'll use hyperedit to get to orbit, as in theory it was built in space XD

[Vingo]

A gigantic 1.5 million 500 ton ship designed to do the jool 5. Only ended up being able to visit vall.

[septemberWaves]

My most massive vehicle on launch was Astarael, and I think it weighed around two thousand tonnes (most of which consisted of the dual Sarnus-derived 5m stack launch vehicles). Other than that, Phasma-class transports regularly reach masses of 700 to 1000 tonnes when fully laden with cargo (they don't weigh that much at launch because they're assembled from far lighter modules).

[Znath]

My largest functional rocket I made one side of it and there was no good way to make it stop spinning aside from copy-pasting the rocket to the top of the circumnavigator.

 

It mostly stabilly launched, but I forgot some struts so the bases of the rockets wobbled a lot til i got to a good orbit.  It did successfully get my 55 ton rover/base/circumnavigator to the surface of the moon.

 

I may also take it to minimus too.

[W. Kerman]

The biggest rocket I've made, (that wasn't me derping about), was a 1,700 ton monster that went to Dres. It was so over designed that I had to ditch a stage that had nearly 1000 m/s left. 

 

 

 

 

[MaxL_1023]

I don't remember how much it massed on launch, but I put 3000 tons into LEO (about 300x300km) in RSS/RP-0. The second stage had 40 SSMEs. 

[Chiron0224]

On ‎9‎/‎6‎/‎2013 at 0:47 AM, Whackjob said:

Lurch told me you rang.

 

 

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A nice selection of some of my works.

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

Good god man!  How have you not melted your graphics card?

[MaxxQ]

37 minutes ago, Chiron0224 said:

Good god man!  How have you not melted your graphics card?

He did.  About a year or so ago.  Whackjob hasn't been around much since then, so it should be fairly easy to find the post where he talks about it, if you search his posts.

Edit:  Found this post from the beginning of this month: 

 

Edited September 16, 2016 by MaxxQ

[Chiron0224]

3 minutes ago, MaxxQ said:

He did.  About a year or so ago.  Whackjob hasn't been around much since then, so it should be fairly easy to find the post where he talks about it, if you search his posts.

Didn't realize it was an old post.  Also I found the one about his processor melting.

[Ultimate Steve]

I don't have any pics of these available, but there was Titania I. I basically built it out of tons of fuel tanks and mammoths in hopes that I'd get an epic explosion. I was not disappointed.

My largest PRACTICAL rocket was Titania II. It ended up transporting four full gigantic (the biggest 3.75m) fuel tanks to the surface of the Mun. Then I got bored and crashed it into the Mun arch.

If we step into another save file, you will find larger. Just click the link in my sig that says "Project Intrepid." For a short summary, there is a bunch of gigantic interplanetary motherships. The lifters for those are pretty huge. But Phase One (No spoilers) was designed to get 1500 tons of "Supplies" to the surface of Minmus. It needed a refuel from an equally gigantic rocket to do that, but it did the job.

Phase one:

Phase One Refueler:

[Wolfmoon]

Biggest vessel I made was back in 0.24 to go to Laythe

May have been a "bit" over-engineered and took an insane amount of time to develop, test and assemble in orbit but it got the job done

Can't remember how many parts it was made of, but it was several thousand

It consisted of 3 drive sections I connected to each other with 2 refuel landers with rovers (in the 2 cones) and a atmospheric plane with a rover bay

To get an idea how heavy it was ... the departure burn was 30minutes in game, but took 8 hours real-time

[Vanamonde]

When this thread started, we didn't have a craft sharing sub. But we do now. So, moved. 

[problemecium]

Yesterday I launched my longest SSTO yet:

It's not my largest per se, as it is is quite skinny and, being mostly empty, is far from my most massive ship so far, but it does take the cake as far as largest singular dimension goes. It was part of an attempt to succeed where @TapeGaming failed and build a 1km+ megastructure in orbit. Unfortunately it seems to have a problem with random self-perpetuating oscillations and I have since been forced to scrap this design.

[Matuchkin]

I think that, after all, the final reward is handed to the god who built this:

[DISCLAIMER] I did not build it. I do not know who did, but I just wanted to share this.

[Gaarst]

7 minutes ago, Matuchkin said:

I think that, after all, the final reward is handed to the god who built this:

[DISCLAIMER] I did not build it. I do not know who did, but I just wanted to share this.

No:

 

[StrandedonEarth]

On 9/27/2016 at 0:57 PM, parameciumkid said:

Yesterday I launched my longest SSTO yet:

It's not my largest per se, as it is is quite skinny and, being mostly empty, is far from my most massive ship so far, but it does take the cake as far as largest singular dimension goes. It was part of an attempt to succeed where @TapeGaming failed and build a 1km+ megastructure in orbit. Unfortunately it seems to have a problem with random self-perpetuating oscillations and I have since been forced to scrap this design.

Looks like an Estes Mean Machine (google pic, not mine)