Asteroid grabbing SSTOs: ASTRO series

[buzz66boy]

The Advanced Spaceplanes for the Tracking and Recovery of Objects (ASTRO) series are a couple of SSTOs I developed for asteroid grabbing. The MK I has ~2700 m/s in orbit and the MK II has about 3600 while the kerberus has 4k+.

Their center of mass and lift is inside the nuke, so they are highly stable (can lose wings and/or engines with little effect). Though I wouldn't recommend knocking off just one jet.

Some pics have mechjeb, but I removed them from the saves, I have SSTO'ed them without mechjeb.

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ASTRO MK I

ASTRO MK II

ASTRO Kerberus MK I

NOTE: Kerberus is currently equipped for docking. For asteroids, just take away docking port on front and replace with "the claw".

Edited July 15, 2014 by buzz66boy
Added Kerberus MK I

[buzz66boy]

Update: Added Kerberus MK I

4k+ dv in orbit