Gravity Ring [UPDATE!] - Part 1, Launch & Part 2, Refuelling

[MarkoeZ]

Hiya,

I was trying to build a gravity ring earlier (old attempt:

), but i found out my pc could not handle anything much larger.

So after upgrading (pc ) parts the past 2 months i decided to try another attempt. Well actually, about 500.... Since the structure is too big to span struts from the ring to the core i had to improvise.

So about 740 parts later, the behemoth gets to orbit, with some to spare

And i tried legit at least 100 times. But i noticed that breakdown-on-launch ratio without mechjeb was 9-1 and with mechjeb it dropped to 4-1

So not that stable in heavy gravity/atmosphere, but works fine once out into space.

The vid!:

Yes i know its massively inefficient, yes i know my trajectory sucks. Im just messing around

UPDATE!

Part two, refuelling.

Next up: adding a rover to it, and flying it to geostationary (Kerbin?)

Cheers!

Edited January 19, 2014 by MarkoeZ

[praise the suuun]

kudos on the successful launch, komrade. im building a deep space port with rings in hope that i can create artificial gravity with centrifigual force as well. please let me know what your findings are after experimenting with kerbals walking on the active ring at 1G.

[MarkoeZ]

Thanks!

And i will try to make video's of every part of the mission and update this thread.

Cheers!

[MarkoeZ]

Part two, refuelling.

Beware that i used mechjeb severely in this case. I do many missions without it too, just check some of my other youtube vids (also those banners below are all done legit), but for these large and complex structures it just makes life that much easier, especially since my gaming time is limited atm...

Cheers!

Edited January 19, 2014 by MarkoeZ