Rocket with fastest top speed?

[Oggula]

Hi i was wondering where i could find the fastest 0.13 rocket, or whether there is a dedicated thread for this. Any help appreciated. Thanks

My current is attached, in case anyone is interested. :\'(

[TNTGODZZ]

i had a rocket that went 48 km/s but it was modded. does that count?

[Tim_Barrett]

I think for stock it would be somewhere around 8km perhaps?

[Guest Flixxbeatz]

I got my speedball, topped at around 28000 m/s 8)

[Squanto]

I feel sad now, I only got up to 6475 m/s, but I was only using silisko edition.

[Oggula]

Sorry guys, i meant stock, im an idiot

Mine gets up to 10500ms. any takers?

[Guest Flixxbeatz]

Stock only? ???

Ok I\'m out.

[Tim_Barrett]

Sorry guys, i meant stock, im an idiot

Mine gets up to 10500ms. any takers?

Pics?

[Oggula]

Attached

[Tim_Barrett]

Attached

What about at launch? Must be a monster.

[Oggula]

Its no tiddler, got up to 95km/s near the sun

[Tim_Barrett]

Lol that thing is a giant

[PD]

for speed trials 2 words: Solar orbit.

Get a little moon-shot, to sling you farther out from Kerbin orbit and you\'ll be going preeeeety darn fast.

My two pence

PD

[semininja]

That seems to me a bit like measuring the speed of a car, only with a point-of-reference of the surface of Mercury.

[Joene]

10589

She has a LOT of stages.

Massive use of fuellines.

All stock ofcourse.

Im sure she needs some fine-tuning.

Dropping her wings when final stage enlights.

Flight time 18 minutes!

Somehow she needs the wings just before final engine lights. I am not sure why.

Without the wings she could probably go a lot faster.

Only seconds after first stage (boosters) drop, you have to drop the second stage. (2 engines)

Each 10 liquid fueltanks 2 engines have to be dropped.

I`m fairly sure she could land on any (future) planet.

A bit bored now trying to make her go faster.

So close to Oggula`s speed yet so far away.. :-)

[dashcunning]

12254 m/s

Another ring of tank boosters would get it 14000+, but it becomes more and more tedious building the thing. 20000+ is probably doable as well, if you are the sort of person to enjoy extremely mind-numbing activities.

[Joene]

Managed 12759. (no boosters yet)

She can probably go faster.

I dont dare to use more liquid engines.. I doubt she will stay stable.

Will test later today with added boosters and post the craft.

Main problem is she leaves the atmosphere to slow.

[Oggula]

Mine can go faster if you modify the stages, but then it starts twisting at launch, and an unstable rocket is an unhappy rocket. Also, i\'m surprised there is no dedicated thread for this incredibly fixating and wonderful challenge, that was my original q.

[Joene]

I really like this challenge..

It seems so simple..

But its driving me mad at the same time..

Testing is getting pretty boring with over 20 minutes of slow acceleration.

She has loads of stages and you cant miss a single one.

<edit> reaching the limits of my design. 21 minutes, 13.138m/s. Still no use of boosters.

[Joene]

Well, here she is, added 6 solid boosters.

She has a lot of stages.

First stage ofcourse the boosters.

After this you press spacebar the second you see 112, 100, 88, 76, 64, 52, 40, 28, 16 and 4 fuel tanks left.

So thats 11 stages.

She has 126 fuel tanks and 6 boosters. Starts with 25 liquid engines.

The use of fuel-lines was ming boggling and may have cost me 2 years of my life.

Each 12 fuel tanks used another stage starts and 2 engines will be dropped.

5100k kilom.

13.282 m/s ( i cant believe adding 6 boosters only gave me this little extra speed in the end)

over 21 minutes of thrust. (boooooooring)

I am looking forward to seeing a craft that can do higher speeds.

I am at the end of my patience. People with a steady hand that can work more symmetrical might be able to ad more stages.

When i tried I got structural failures.

Dropping Advanced SAS and do manual stearing would ofcourse help a lot. But I think it would make this 'challenge' less measurable.

[Joene]

13414

[Joene]

14295 km/s

Loads of stages.

[Kalasnokov]

this maybe not count as 'top speed' but i used the suns gravity to slingshoot myself up to 116249.1 m/s while i was in the middle of the sun!

[vinc3nt23]

17081.4m/s On my first attempt

[dashcunning]

That\'s your speed with a Kerbol assist. Most people are talking about straight up off Kerbin, immediately after engine cut off speeds.

I\'ve gotten up to 14893 and that\'s about it for me. The first stage and assembly building are a slide show at this point. Theoretically I could keep going, but it\'s just too painful. What\'s needed is a 6x (or even 3x) length fuel tank to cut down on the number of parts. With the increased game performance, you could add another stage and probably get 17000+.