SpaceCycle, Smallest shuttle ever?

[panzerknoef]

YES, after some engineering i have made kerbin's smallest shuttle (my kerbin that is) it weighs in at around 30tons and can make a 100x100km orbit (possibly higher but haven't tested) and return safely to the ground

here are some pics

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save files:

Stock version:

http://www./view/41kg2g6z7pg1d4c/SpaceCycle.craft

Mechjeb version:

http://www./view/6w7ydevlk108r3a/SpaceCycle%20MJ.craft

Please give me your opinions about it

Edited January 18, 2014 by panzerknoef

[panzerknoef]

No comments

[Tada]

I will test it right when I get to my computer, on damned iPhone i dont even see the pics properly :-)

Not the easiest thing to fly I must say

Edited January 16, 2014 by Tada

[Blue]

You could've provided screenshots that focused closer on the spacecraft and less on the empty space around the Launch Pad.

A problem I see with the design is that its inheirently asymetrical without a compensatory angling of the engines, which means all the way through the launch you'll be losing delta-v for corrections. But it does seem quite cute and novel to have a shuttle with only a strap-on seat to the top.

[Redshift OTF]

Closer pics from the side and front while in flight would be nice.

[Tank Buddy]

A problem I see with the design is that its inheirently asymetrical without a compensatory angling of the engines, which means all the way through the launch you'll be losing delta-v for corrections.

It looks like the mass of the Shuttle is so minuscule it doesn't matter. The shuttle body is made of Oscar-B tanks.

Also to panzerknoef, how am I supposed to get this save to work, is it a world save file or a craft file?

Edited January 16, 2014 by Tank Buddy

[panzerknoef]

It's a craft file, the compensation is provided by rcs and reaction wheels. I will upload some better pictures when i have some time.

[3_bit]

I found that if you detach, rotate the plane so that pitching up changes your heading, turn on SAS, and do so, you have an infiniglider.

[panzerknoef]

Updated pictures

[The Destroyer]

When I first saw it I was like THAT'S NOT SMALL and then realised it was a "Shuttle" not a SSTO.

[likke_A_boss]

When I first saw it I was like THAT'S NOT SMALL and then realised it was a "Shuttle" not a SSTO.

Heh, exactly what I though.

[Pds314]

Smaller shuttle idea:

Take all of the fuel out of the boosters.

Put 3 seperatrons attached to a 5-tonne SSTO.

dump the seperatrons.

Voila.

[Mr. Speed]

aaaww how cute!!!

[panzerknoef]

ikr, if you have some problems with it and want me to look at them, feel free to ask