Fuel Depot at KSC

[Grumman]

For those who like building reusable space planes, how about this idea:

A structure near the runway with a docking port on the side. It would be treated as a vehicle with an arbitrarily large inertia (and is thus immovable) that contains an infinite supply of liquid fuel, oxidiser, RCS fuel, electricity and xenon. A vehicle could drive up to this structure and connect with its docking port to resupply.

The purpose of this structure is to make not just space planes but refuelling trucks reusable. Since the current method of refuelling requires spawning new refuelling trucks (which causes problems when you already have a plane on the runway), this would allow a more convenient and more immersive method, by using a tanker truck to shuttle fuel to the spaceplane from the fuel depot.

Thoughts?

Edited April 27, 2014 by Grumman

[Kasuha]

If you have a plane on runway, you can spawn some fuel tanks on launchpad. Navigate your refueling truck to it, connect and suck it dry, disconnect & recover and then refuel the plane.

I don't think it would be bad if there was some device with infinite supply of fuel. But I think with a bit of planning it's not a big problem that these isn't one.

[Tery215]

Well, this would obviously lower the total cost of:

Purchasing fuel tanks

Unpurchasing fuel tanks at an obviously lower price