Super tiny SSTO

[mr_yogurt]

I was bored earlier, and somehow ended up making an SSTO that weighed .98 t. It's extremely simple, with a grand total of 6 parts (7 if you include MechJeb), so it isn't unlikely that someone has come up with this exact design before. But I thought it was worth sharing, so I took a video to put up here.

For some reason my brain tells me this is nothing worth talking about. My brain is probably right.

However, I'd like to see if anybody could make a lighter one. If you can (and someone probably has already), please share. It would be amazing.

Imgur album (out of date because video): http://imgur.com/a/Fxpqh

Edited February 18, 2014 by mr_yogurt

[barrenwaste]

There was a challenge not long ago, don't remember the name now, but if you sort through you'll likely find it. Anyway. The challenge was to make the least expensive sat possible. Most of them ended up being ssto's that were tiny.

[MassiveEffectz]

From the pictures it looks like you got into space, NOT orbit. Please list the periapsis and apoapsis ( with or without an image)

[jmiki8]

If you look closely, you can see that the prograde marker is actually on the horizon. With this orbital speed and altitude, he must have achieved orbit.

[quarkup]

From the pictures it looks like you got into space, NOT orbit. Please list the periapsis and apoapsis ( with or without an image)

If you watch the video on youtube with 1080p resolution (fullscreen), you see that he mades orbit (apoapsis and periapsis >70km if you see the stats from mechjeb), then at the end he burns to retrograde.