Heavy lifter made with ReStock parts.

[Galane]

AARP is appalled proud surprised(?) to introduce a FIY (Finish It Yourself) heavy lift launch vehicle, the TT-70 Test Article. As-is, you may go to space today, but you won't be coming back - alive.

http://pastebin.com/v4tykNax Note that the Skipper and decoupler on the upper stage should be moved in the staging before sending Kerbals on a suicide mission, or modifying the ship for actual use. This is *not* a flying rocket, it is intended as a test of the TT-70 radial decouplers (due to total failure to hold together with KJR 2.0). Do not kill some Kerbals with it then complain to Alan Aerospace Recycling and Packaging.

The only non-stock parts are the big Thundermax 64 tank in the middle, the large adapter on top of it, and the 8 big tanks around the sides. The design originated as a way to get a lot of fuel to orbit, while drastically reducing the number of parts, especially fuel tanks.

In flying form it had two rings of 8 ReStock 5-way RCS blocks around the big tank, and one each on the outside ends of the side boosters. It also had a ring of 8 OX-STAT panels on the big tank. There was also a large inline reaction wheel on top of the cone shaped adapter/fuel tank. That plus all the RCS made it very quick turning, even when full of fuel - it makes a pretty good tanker, easily capable of ferrying quite a bit to Mun or Minmus.

As it is in the link above, the asparagus staging is set up to work but the solar panels and RCS and other pieces have been removed and the engine and decoupler in the stage stuck on top are in the wrong stage due to it being stripped down for debugging why the TT-70's fail with KJR 2.0 but not 1.7.

Fit it out as you like, but don't try using it with KJR 2.0. Moar Struts didn't help.

This craft actually does not need KJR to hold together, I tested it without any KJR and it had *less* flex and bounce on the pad as physics kicked in. So I launched it and nothing failed! I've used this to lift much heavier payloads than an orange tank with a command pod and a Skipper.

For even heavier payloads, replace the center Mainsail ReStock Bigger Badder Quad Coupler plus four Mainsails and brace it to the big tank with quantum struts. (IIRC, this version may have come before the posted version with 'only' nine Mainsails.)

Here's a piccy of the big tank after lofting a heavy rover. Will get a launch shot later.

[Galane]

On the pad!

Liftoff!

For Kerbal Joint Reinforcement 2.0, it has been suggested to edit "breakForceMultiplier" in config.xml and change the value from 1 to 1.5. This has not yet been tested with this craft.

Could also replace the tall side tanks with stacked pairs of Rockomax 64's, at the expense of adding more parts.