Heavy Lifter Craft Files [10-250 Tons]

[DuoDex]

Looking for stock .craft files for lifters that can do payloads from 10 tons to 250 tons!

Images are greatly appreciated.

[goldenpeach]

At which altitude would you want to orbit?

[DuoDex]

At which altitude would you want to orbit?

Oh, LKO is fine. Y'know, if you can get to orbit, you're halfway there.

[xtoro]

I've got a great one that can lift 150t into LKO with fuel to spare, but, it's not stock, you need NovaPunch2... If you're interested I can upload it...

[DuoDex]

I've got a great one that can lift 150t into LKO with fuel to spare, but, it's not stock, you need NovaPunch2... If you're interested I can upload it...

Go ahead. I can probably fiddle with it so it's stock only in-game.

[xtoro]

Alright, here you go:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zeivyc17hhdrds5/Lifter%2C%20150t.craft?dl=0

It's a subassembly so drop it in your subassemblies folder and attach it to a pod or something to work on it.

[Signo]

Hi, I ve got this quite common and boring stock asparagus. I do not really know how much it can bring up. In the pics below I ended up with 471t in a 150Km orbit.

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/d2ws8ijauj1h88g/il%20mijile.craft?dl=0

It is a subassembly like xtoro one, so treat it the same way.

Edited September 24, 2014 by Signo
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[goldenpeach]

I have a rocket that can lift 170 tons in 75KM orbit.

it doesn't use asparagus staging but I can easily make a version of it that use that type of staging(more test can come soon, if you're interested).

Forget what I just said. The normal version work fine but the asparagus staging prototype can't even get out of the atmosphere with a charge of 170 tons.

So, are you interested?

(By the way, the lifter only have 104 parts, but a simple struts placement instruction have to be followed: basically, you have to place struts from a given point of the rocket to the payload. I think you can make that if I tell you where you have to place the struts?)

Edited September 24, 2014 by goldenpeach

[Darnok]

All 100% stock (just made few screens with fairings, because they look better:) )

Ascender 10 can lift 10 tons to 75x75 km orbit

15 tons to 95x95 km orbit

20 tons to 85x85 km orbit

26 tons to 80x80 km orbit.

32 tons to 80x80 km orbit.

40 tons to 85x85 km

50 tons to orbit

60 tons to orbit

70 tons to orbit

80+ tons soon

[Rune]

I've got you covered for 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, 70, and 100mT sizes. The General Lifters line is one of the star products of R-SUV (link to details in my sig!). In fact somebody just rep'ed me for them.

Rune. The radial decoupler bug might be an issue, though, almost all use side SRBs. Good thing it's fixable.

[speedboiae86]

Do you even lift, bro? XD I couldn't resist...

Thought I'd chuck this in here;

The "Star Hercules" Series Medium Weight Lifter SSTO. Basically, whatever you can fit in it's cargo bay can be taken into orbit. A fuel tank, a mun lander (pictured), whatever!! Just do not forget to strap down your payload with struts, or it'll wobble all over the place. Also, disable crossfeed on the docking port so you don't accidentally use payload fuel.

Completely stock, non air-hogging design. Let me know if you're interested and I'll post a download link. Model shown has Mechjeb equipped, but I can "stock-ify" it for you.

Edited September 24, 2014 by speedboiae86

[DuoDex]

All 100% stock (just made few screens with fairings, because they look better:) )

Ascender 10 can lift 10 tons to 75x75 km orbit

http://i.imgur.com/iWSTMqW.jpg

15 tons to 95x95 km orbit

http://i.imgur.com/ZnHhLzF.jpg

20 tons to 85x85 km orbit

http://i.imgur.com/8n6ZUwr.jpg

26 tons to 80x80 km orbit.

http://i.imgur.com/iquBQLDl.png

32 tons to 80x80 km orbit.

http://i.imgur.com/U2nU2yJl.png

40 tons to 85x85 km

http://i.imgur.com/mDVfAtIl.png

50 tons to orbit

http://i.imgur.com/O3Bczd9l.png

60 tons to orbit

http://i.imgur.com/vYYTwdyl.png

70 tons to orbit

http://i.imgur.com/LFO8C4Fl.png

80+ tons soon

http://i.imgur.com/pwc47f0.png

Do you have a download link?

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@speedboie86 Interested. I use MJ, so don't worry.

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I have a rocket that can lift 170 tons in 75KM orbit.

it doesn't use asparagus staging but I can easily make a version of it that use that type of staging(more test can come soon, if you're interested).

Forget what I just said. The normal version work fine but the asparagus staging prototype can't even get out of the atmosphere with a charge of 170 tons.

So, are you interested?

(By the way, the lifter only have 104 parts, but a simple struts placement instruction have to be followed: basically, you have to place struts from a given point of the rocket to the payload. I think you can make that if I tell you where you have to place the struts?)

Yes!

Edited September 24, 2014 by DuoDex

[mhoram]

Have a look at my Lopac Lifter Family. 10-520 ton Payload

With a quite low partcount.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/74395-Low-Partcount-Lifters

[speedboiae86]

@DuoDex

Here she is, just for you.

"Star Series" Star Heracles (Hercules) SSTO Mk. II with Mun Lander.

Be sure to catch Action groups before take off but here is a quick run down:

0 - Toggles all intakes closed, press before take off!!

1 - Toggles all intakes open and toggles 1st pair of jet engines

2 - Toggles 2nd pair of jet engines

3 - Toggles 3rd pair of jet engines

4 - Toggles 4th pair of jet engines

5 - Toggles 5th pair of jet engines

6 - Toggles Solitary rocket engine

7 - Toggles paired rocket engines

Important, do not set your take off angle to anything more than 10 degrees pitch until you are off the run way, doing so will cause a tail strike and tear off the rear wings and rocket engines. From there, gently pitch to 15, 30, and then 45 degrees. She doesn't like pitching up too rapidly. Climb to 12,500m, level out initially to 30 degrees, then 20 degrees, and nothing below there. Let it build speed until 1,400 m/s, and then hit the ascent autopilot. Listen for when the jet engines start to lose power. Anytime you find yourself about to flatspin, shut down one pair of engines, starting from the outside and going in. She has a ton of reaction wheels, so it'll correct easily. When you're on the final pair of engines, feel free to activate the solitary rocket motor. Keep listening to your remaining jet engines, they should start losing power quite quickly at this point. Shut them down, one at a time, until you can no longer keep the last pair of jet engines lit. Shut them down and close all the intakes with the 1 key. Activate the paired rocket motors. Let those do the rest of the work. She easily make low (80km x 80km) orbit.

Feel free to fiddle around with the cargo section if you like. Remember, anything you can fit in there, you can take to orbit. You could potentially even use this SSTO to build an entire small space station!! If you do anything interesting with it, show me!!

[KandoKris]

Lifters, I like lifters they lift things really well

I use this atm to move 50 tn to LKO

and this to lift 200tn+ to laythe

the first I'm yet to give out as its still a work in progress

then second Is with the navy pack for witch it was created as a sub-assembly ( Sorry I dont have assembly by its self )

[Roflcopterkklol]

This should lift at least 300 tons into a Munar orbit even if you are terrible at getting a rocket into orbit.

I did try to keep the part count low on it as well being that my payloads are normally 600+ parts.

100% stock so no mods needed, fuel flow is all sorted so all you have to do is strap a payload to the top and slap some space tape on it.

It is 5 stages, quite easy to fly.

Throttle up to 95% on launch, hit the SAS and away you go, after staging the lifting rockets at 12,000m wait until your speed starts to increase again then begin orbital turn.

At around 35km you will need to stage the middle rocket, after this continue to burn until 50km, at 50km bring your pitch down to 60 degree, continue to climb until 70km, at 70km bring your pitch horizontal and continue burning until orbit, at around 1700m/s you will need to stage the lifting rockets, at around 2400m/s you will be in orbit.

Good luck and have fun if you end up deciding it is something you could use.

By the way i suggest loading it in the Space plane hanger with FS hanger extender, to pick up the entire craft click the decoupler at the top of the craft)

Action groups: (These only apply the the last stage of the rocket)

5: Toggle Main sail on carrier stage of rocket.

6: Toggle Nuclear engines on carrier stage of rocket.

Download link: Part count - 186

http://www./download/5ko942d7k9c08p9/Roflcopters+Lifting+rocket.craft

An example of one of the lifting jobs i have used this rocket for. (Last posted thread on the stock craft repository)

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/76858-The-Stock-Craft-Repository-%28v0-24-2%29/page12

Edited September 25, 2014 by Roflcopterkklol