WIP - The Explorer NV-1: 14,000 dV and two attached landers

[ialdabaoth]

So, I built this to test my RealSolarSystem fork. The back is a massive 10m x 24m fuel tank, holding 4.7 million litres of liquid hydrogen. For initial launch, it also holds 150 kilolitres of liquid oxygen to increase thrust and decrease lifetime engine wear.

In front, we have a Cupola cockpit, a full science lab, a crew berth for four, and a greenhouse for regenerative life support.

Behind that is a massive 4m cargo bay and two hybrid nuclear-powered landers, which can use liquid hydrogen in vacuum, or any available atmosphere when present. Each lander can hold up to 3.3k dV worth of liquid hydrogen, seats 3, and can be piloted remotely.

Right now, this only works in my particular cfg mod of the game, but I will post the .craft file along with my RKS mod.

[Jeb Cubed]

You might as well bring the VAB with you! I can't imagin the burn times. Anyways well done getting that into space, and the no boom part.

[Kurotenshi]

I'd love to see those landers a bit better. Seem like something interesting going on with those B9-intakes

[ialdabaoth]

Sure!

Edited May 22, 2014 by ialdabaoth

[Legendary Emu]

Sweet mother of mercy ! It's like I stumbled upon whackjobs apprentice!

[Exothermos]

Those landers are beautiful!

[problemecium]

O_O

HOLY MOTHER OF FUEL TANK

is what I thought the instant I saw that picture. It looks neat, though. Another of those pictures that almost makes me want to go mod-happy and start downloading Interstellar and Procedural Parts and whatnot.

Then again, those burn times...

[ialdabaoth]

Those landers are beautiful!

Thank you! I'm working on improving the look of them substantially, by replacing the two side dock pylons with B9 flush docking ports.

[ialdabaoth]

O_O

HOLY MOTHER OF FUEL TANK

is what I thought the instant I saw that picture. It looks neat, though. Another of those pictures that almost makes me want to go mod-happy and start downloading Interstellar and Procedural Parts and whatnot.

Then again, those burn times...

Heh. Actually, I'm using KSPI parts, but I've stripped out the KSPI plugin - I'm trying to rebuild most of the parts' functionality using RealFuels, since KSPI is a real pain to change fuel definitions for.