Tiny Cat Rocketry: Tiger 2 Rocket (more than 360 tons to orbit) with video

[Naten]

The Tiger Ultra-Heavy Lifter

Goals

• Produce a large-payload lifter, lifting 3.5+ meter payloads to orbit
  
• Produce vehicles of varying size for different uses
  
• If possible, pursue reusability
  

Tiny Cat Aerospace wishes to fufill these goals, and more, in the Tiger rocket family.

Expect to see huge rockets, possibly exceeding the Saturn V in size.

Screenies!

The following section may (sometime) be image heavy. Proceed at your discretion.

Block A test 2: Fairings Complete! (Ground Jettison)

Block A fairing progress

Old Image I

Old Image II

Imgur Album (Tiger 1)

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Video:

Tiger 1 launch, shows about 140 tons to orbit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vuz9qMEsmQ

Tiger 2 launch with 10 orange tanks, shows 360 tons to orbit with more than half of the final stage's fuel remaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ29UJVasPU

Downloads

Tiger 1 (140 tons to orbit)

Tiger 1 - 681 Parts

Tiger 1 w Fairing, 831 Parts

Tiger 2 (360 tons to orbit tested, 400 tons or more will probably work within reason)

Tiger 2 - 455 Parts

Enjoy!

-Naten

Edited August 4, 2014 by Naten

[Naten]

I still have yet to find a way to get symmetrical, half-split fairings.

edit-1: New symmetrical fairings WIP. Based/inspired by nephf's design on his Falcon Heavy Mun (he's an engineer with SpaceX, so his rockets are very detailed and nice! Check them out!)

Edited August 2, 2014 by Naten

[Naten]

Until I finish this session of bowel purge, I won't be able to upload pictures. Thankfully, I can bump this thread with my phone, because now the Tiger 2 is out. Beat that, you Zokeasy Skunks or whatever! 360 tons to orbit with plenty of fuel to spare!