Separatrons to orbit.

[iDan122]

Simple, get a command pod/probe into Kerbin orbit.

Rules:

1.Use no other propulsion method other than separatrons.

2. No hax, part clipping is allowed.

No infiniglide.

Rankings:

An orbit at least(100p)-70x70km orbit reached

For every additional 10x10km you receive 50 points.

Mun,I'm coming for you!(500p)-get caught in the Muns sphere of influence

Minmus, so small!(1000p)-get caught by Minmus

Interplanetary style(3000p)-get onto an interplanetary trajectory.(no gravity assists)

Getting a high orbit with a Mun/Minmus gravity assist doesn't count.

Soft mode(x1) get any probe body to do the above

Hard mode(x1,5) get a 1-man command pod do any of the above

[KatzOhki]

Been trying to accomplish this in my game anyway, so maybe ill try to make an entry.

[pxi]

Been having a bash at this. Best I've achieved so far is getting a probe to about 9000M. Most of my launches however have looked a bit like this:

[HueHue]

It's not impossible, just tedious.

Edit: I've gotten to 22,000m so far.

Edited September 10, 2013 by HueHue

[iDan122]

My bst shot was around 10000 meters. Hint: Remeber, dont activate them all at the same time, carefully planeed staging does the trick.

[KatzOhki]

I've made it out of the atmosphere, but haven't circularized.

Edit: I realized that was with a partially liquid stage. My best with separatrons only was ~44km last night.

Edited September 11, 2013 by KatzOhki
Fix

[xD90o1]

Wait a sec. . . Remember how stun_gravy used the separatrons? Maybe we can do it guys

[PeaMatt]

This is ridiculous

EYE LUV EET

Edited September 26, 2013 by PeaMatt

[Alistone]

I will endeavor this tonight. This is going to be fun.

[lajoswinkler]

It's possible and has already been done, use the search function. Basically you need to make a huge rocket with couple hundreds sepratrons. The very last stage is the one that reaches orbit, it's usually that octogonal flat probe, or the square one. I've never entered orbit, but made it to suborbital, almost 130 km. My computer is too weak to allow normal work with so many parts. Framerate drops horribly so there's no fun in it.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

[eppiox]

Ahhh here is some shots from an older attempt I had at this, 600 odd sepratrons and still could not get this monster into orbit, needed a faster pc for just a few more stages.

[Alistone]

Made it over 50k feet but only with about 400m/s of surface velocity (well short of orbit). A main challenge seems to be the early stages. It is most efficient to travel at about 100 m/s + 10m/s for every 1000 feet of elevation. The problem I have is that after some very potent lower stages that each adds 30ish m/s you get to about 100m/s and your vessel is lighter so the same stage now adds 60 m/s. This quickly pushes you to 160m/s before you are even at 1000 meters up and you lose a bunch to atmospheric drag. I'm trying to split the ignition on some of the early stages to maintain a more stable velocity. If you can get efficiently out to 14,000 m then the top stages should easily make it to orbit.

Will post pics tonight after I finally accomplish this.

[1greywind]

Here is my successful attempt:

27 stages, 590 parts.

[thescientist]

Here is my successful attempt:

27 stages, 590 parts.

this part count will very likely kill my PC

[1greywind]

this part count will very likely kill my PC

Each of first 5 stages has 51 part in it and burn for only 3.3 seconds. So part count drops to more or less reasonable number (~300) in first 30 seconds of ascent. I got around 7 fps from start and then fps will rise very fast. Also my rocket is pretty stable on course - you don't realy need anything to do except of hitting spacebar 12 times until you get to 10 km.

[zapy]

This is mine, till now the best, but I think that 1greywind could improve his design a lot only changing small things at their staging without changing anything.

I reached a 78x150km.

850 parts, 56 stages, 752 sepratrons, 49.6 tons, delta v=4997 m/s and a final orbit of 150x78km.

[Theriss]

I think this would be fun to try

[mellojoe]

Speechless.

Makes me want to go buy all the model rocket motors from all the hobby shops in town ....

[Psycix]

Speechless.

Makes me want to go buy all the model rocket motors from all the hobby shops in town ....

This math has been done: You'll reach space, but not orbit!

[mellojoe]

This math has been done: You'll reach space, but not orbit!

Of course XKCD has done it. Why am I not at all surprised?

[cullyn]

crashed the VAB with my attempt I tried to move it up and detached the whole thing while on x4 symmetry heh.