Probe-Launching SSTO Spaceplane

[Epthelyn]

It's nothing special, and should probably go in the SSTO showcase, but here's the first SSTO spaceplane I've built for any practical purpose. The idea is that I can now distribute probes to all unvisited planets in my career save with a re-usable vehicle. I'm still working on a way to put a new probe in between flights without returning to the VAB though; that may end up requiring KAS.

Name: G-A Probe SP Mk III

Reason: Go-Anywhere 'Probe Spaceplane' Version 3. I'm terrible at naming things. The probe has ~13k dV

Anyway, pictures:

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And a video:

That only exists because I happened to have ShadowPlay running at the time (hence the occasional loss of the HUD to take screenshots). Something weird happened during processing and some of the audio is missing; I'll upload a better version tomorrow afternoon.

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And the save file:

http://goo.gl/wAlS5H

Notes:

- The Engineer part is not in that save file; I removed it before saving as it was there for the test flight

- The probe seen in the video is not the one included in the save file. I realised that running an ion engine on a RTG wasn't going to work and added solar panels; the RTG is clipped inside the xenon tanks (without using part clipping debug). Of course, the probe is entirely optional and the payload can be replaced with something of almost-equal size and mass.