The Behemoth

[Redshift OTF]

I think this may be considering "Going full Kerbal".

475 parts. 7673 tons. Can lift over 1000 tons to LKO. Total thrust = 107 mega Newtons!

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I was testing a new engine cluster and the only way to utilise the crazy TWR was to build upwards. Side staging long SLS parts are a bit of a pain as there are no decouplers powerful enough to push them away so I decided to make the lifter stage one stage. This means it is not exactly the most practical or efficient design but it looked awesome and I think it is the tallest design to date!

The top stage can be anything you want. I just built something that was around the 1000 ton mark.

It was pretty difficult to build as I think it is about twice the height of the VAB. It doesn't turn too bad but the 32 large SAS modules help. The lifter stage is about 100 DeltaV shy of getting into LKO so you'll need a slight boost from the upper stage but that's good as it lets the lower stage fall back to Kerbin. You don't want that thing as space junk!

Download here if you dare.

[Remkeau]

That's pretty neat, nice one! You mentioned it is twice the height of the VAB, so how do you build it? You drag the lower part through the floor? Or is there a way to zoom beyond the VABs walls?

[Jeb Cubed]

Wow, this is like Jebediah's dream, i mean realality rocket. I will have to cop.. i mean revearse engineer this for sure.

[Legendary Emu]

Whackjob would be proud

[ProGamerGov]

This is amazing! Finally I have a chance to get my payload into orbit!

One question though, what is the secret to phasing engines together like that?

Edited April 6, 2014 by ProGamerGov

[Redshift OTF]

Thank you! Making the engine clusters was surprisingly easy.

1) Enable part clipping by pressing alt+f12.

2) Attach the 2000kN engine to the bottom of a fuel tank.

3) Attach a 3200kN engine in the same place.

4) Attach another 3200kN engine in the same place rotated 90 degrees.

5) Attach the other 2 engines but rotate using shift + Q or Z so it looks even.

6) Get a fuel line and select 4 way symmetry.

7) Attach it to the side of the fuel tank near the bottom and connect it straight down to the side of one of the 3200kN engines.

Because of the way the 3200kN engines overlap each other slightly a different engine side sticks out on a different side of the rocket so a 4 way symmetry fuel line will connect to them all. You can kind of see it from the last album picture I posted. You don't have to build a rocket as big as mine but one of these clusters is extremely powerful and can lift almost anything, (as you can see from the pictures).

[Redshift OTF]

That's pretty neat, nice one! You mentioned it is twice the height of the VAB, so how do you build it? You drag the lower part through the floor? Or is there a way to zoom beyond the VABs walls?

You have to drag the top part as high as it can go, detach the bottom section from about the middle and then add extra parts there. This will allow you to push the bottom part through the floor. Unfortunately if you need to change something at the bottom you have to disassemble half the ship to get to it!

[Remkeau]

You have to drag the top part as high as it can go, detach the bottom section from about the middle and then add extra parts there. This will allow you to push the bottom part through the floor. Unfortunately if you need to change something at the bottom you have to disassemble half the ship to get to it!

Aaah I see, good to know! Cheers mate