KraneShip - Small SSTO, big payloads

[Crampman]

Hi folks !

After long and painful (and unsuccessful) tries, I've finally made a functional SSTO with a big payload capacity !

Vertical take-off !

Chute landing : safe & easy !

Station-size payloads !

The first version can carry a 4-5 tons payload to LKO with ~1000m/s to spare.

The pros are :

- No tricky take-off / landing (I crashed countless ships after wobbling on the runway)

- Large payloads

- Very stable design : the payload COM is very close to the ship COM during the whole flight

The cons are :

- No payload protection during atmospheric flight

- The weight/thrust ration can be weak at take-off with a heavy payload.

[Prof. Endwalker]

Looks great! Cool to see new members do great things in KSP! 4-5 tons is a bit small, but with some redesigning, I bet it could get to 20-30 tons! Also, this could be done stock! I might have to try something like this. I hope you don't mind if I base one of my crafts off of this!

[WildBillKerbin]

Nice! Got a .craft file to share?