Applied Phlogistics Aerotitan - 77-Kerbal Spaceplane To Other Planets! (FAR Non-nuke)

[Pds314]

I present to you the Applied Phlogistics Aerotitan an entirely stock 77-passenger interplanetary spaceplane launched with FAR aerodynamics.

Nearly an SSTO. Not quite. It uses four BACC boosters to get it off the ground. It seems like taking off horizontally would be difficult if not impossible with something like this.

The first prototypes were what I call and "MSSMTO" or Mostly Single Stage, Mostly To Orbit. That is, it lost about 35 tonnes on the way up by accident but still got to orbit. Missing 12 engines assymetrically, a command pod, several intakes, some fuel lines, some wings and more normally doesn't get you to orbit, but in this case it got there even under monotonous unplanned disassembly with fuel to spare.

The thing has a surprisingly high Delta-V after reaching LKO. Under the best-case scenario with the launch, it might be able to get 2000 m/s out of all that rocket fuel.

It weighs about 330 tonnes at launch and 200-260 tonnes or so in orbit. Only about 150 tonnes dry.

It carries an amazing, maybe even unprecedented for Pseudo-SSTO Spaceplanes that use stock parts and FAR, 77 Kerbals in internal seating to orbit and beyond.

It also has two of each comms device and 7 docking ports of all in areas with no nearby obstructions. 4 are Junior, 2 are standard, the Dorsal 1 is senior.

1 note is that despite having nearly 800 kg of monoprop, it has no RCS or non-cockpit SAS. I dread to see the sort of thing that IT would dock to. What? A 2000-tonne spacestation? Does anyone even make those? Well if they do, I'm sure they can send a fuel tanker with an orange tank that happens to be docked there out to feed me fuel.

So yeah, 77-Kerbal, 330 tonne wet / 150 tonne dry pseudo-SSTO spaceplane. that can get over 100 tonnes of fuel into Orbit.

Whole thing is about 350 parts.

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[Genolution]

You beat KSP. Congratulations.

[TheTsar52]

Wow. Just Wow. How many Vodka bottles did you go through building that... thing?

[Pds314]

Wow. Just Wow. How many Vodka bottles did you go through building that... thing?

None. Don't drink. But I didn't think that it would actually work well. I thought MAYBE getting it into orbit would be possible with some other stages or hyper-editting it to 20 km and 1200 m/s or something, but not just with a normal launch. It is actually a surprisingly capable craft in that it can take fairly severe damage, stall irrecoverably, etc and still eventually reach orbit (while stalled irrecoverably until about 50 km, xD). It is also extremely flyable and arguably even acrobatic in its own blue whale-like way.

[Pds314]

You beat KSP. Congratulations.

No, beating KSP would be making something like this that could VTOL and get to orbit in single stage and then land on laythe using VTOL, and then preferably return. and land on the spire-like mountain (Scott Manley calls it K-2) near KSC.

[TimMartland]

No, beating KSP would be making something like this that could VTOL and get to orbit in single stage and then land on laythe using VTOL, and then preferably return. and land on the spire-like mountain (Scott Manley calls it K-2) near KSC.

Challenge accepted

[Pds314]

I made a better one!

It can haul 112 passengers to Eeloo or deep space and takes off from the runway. It also weighs more than a typical C-class asteroid and has a wingspan of 47 meters.