The Ultimate Spaceplane Showdown of Ultimate Destiny!

[Blaster]

ATTENTION BUILDERS!

My hair is too big to fit in a little spaceplane! My hair needs a spaceplane that is BIGGER! Not Mk2 bigger, Not MK3 bigger, Kerbodyne bigger! It is time to create a flying mothership that can take my hair into space! The biggest space plane shall win!

The Challenge

Make a spaceplane that is bigger than all else and gets into space in a single stage! No dropping parts allowed!

Obviously it has to take off on the runway!

Two different ranks for Stock and Modded KSP

Requirements: at least 1 Kerbodyne S3-14400 tank as an integral part of the hull full of liquid fuel (not tweaked down), 1 MK3 cockpit

Scoring:

Bigger is better. Your Craft Stats (the i button in the SPH) need to be bigger than everyone else.

Size Score: Mass + (height x width x length). Highest score wins the size category. You still have to make orbit or this doesn't count.

Part Efficiency Score: Size Score / number of parts. The bigger you can make it without grinding your computer to a halt, the better. Add to the above.

Launch Efficiency Score: All liquid fuel, solid fuel, and oxidizer, starting amount added up, then add up amount left when orbit is reached (periapsis at or above 70,000m, slingshotting out of Kerbin SOI doesn't count). Divide amount left by amount starting. Add this to the above.

Range Bonus: Achieve these goals without refueling. +10 pts for Achieving Mun orbit, +100 pts for orbiting another world, X number of worlds away from Kerbin (example, Duna and Eve are 1 world away, so 100 pts, Eeloo is 4 worlds away, so +400 pts for orbiting it). Double the points for returning to Kerbin as well.

Ultimate Spaceplane Category: All those scores added up. Highest score wins!

Proof of concept:

There is a reason there is an Mk3 to 3.5m adapter size!

Edited January 7, 2015 by Blaster
Modded crafts go in a different ranking

[Blaster]

No takers?

[ScriptKitt3h]

Give it some time...

[Moar Boosters]

I built this before Kerbodyne S3-14400 tanks were even a thing.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/62173-LARGEST-REUSABLE-SSTO%21-The-Kerbus-Space-380-1100-ton-spaceplane

[Waterlimon]

All fuels, except intake air and electrical power, that are used during launch and orbital burn, starting amount added up, then divided by amount left when orbit is reached

Use up all fuel, get infinite score!

I think you should come up with a cleaner score calculation method... The current one seems a bit messy.

[Blaster]

Use up all fuel, get infinite score!

I think you should come up with a cleaner score calculation method... The current one seems a bit messy.

It's the other way around.

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I built this before Kerbodyne S3-14400 tanks were even a thing.

http://i.imgur.com/vDlCk1d.png

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/62173-LARGEST-REUSABLE-SSTO%21-The-Kerbus-Space-380-1100-ton-spaceplane

Does it still fly in the latest Beta? Think you can do one better and give it a MK3 cockpit?

[Voculus]

No takers?

Kindly allow a separate mod category, and I'll try for a behemoth monstrosity, the likes of which Kerbin has never seen!

[Maelstrom Vortex]

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/33312-Showcase-SSTO-s%21-Post-your-pictures-here?p=1639917&viewfull=1#post1639917

Big Bus Betty.. before I tweak her for this challenge... (she's currently cargo configured).

Only mod is over-sized landing gear.

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Big Space Plane Betty, 16 dual cycle ramjets, 8 shock cone intakes, multiple side inlets. Tons of fuel. Probably can make it to the moon, but for got solar panels, so will update on attempt two after I add a few renewable power sources.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/94022667/Public%20site%20hosting/ksp/Space%20Plane.craft

The little red dot in the right is her sister, the shuttle, orbiting nearby. Ohh, missed the Kerobodyne tank requirement. Will fix that too.

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And.. final entry, Kerbodyne Betty, who will probably make it to the moon if not beyond:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/94022667/Public%20site%20hosting/ksp/KerbodyneBettty.craft

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What about mun and minmus?

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Deorbiting right above the space center with plenty of fuel to land...

I am sad to report that the game suspended the plane before it could reach the space port to land. As I was making the turn to bring it around, the craft suddenly went to 0 airspeed and hung in the air..... and won't move.. Although it is consuming fuel and the jets are running, is so strange.

Strangely, it let me recover the craft as if it were on the launchpad and said it was on the launch pad in the flight monitor screen *scratches head*.

Edited December 31, 2014 by Maelstrom Vortex

[Blaster]

Strangely, it let me recover the craft as if it were on the launchpad and said it was on the launch pad in the flight monitor screen *scratches head*.

Mine did that too. It has to be a MK3 cockpit bug?

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Kindly allow a separate mod category, and I'll try for a behemoth monstrosity, the likes of which Kerbin has never seen!

There you go. Summon the Lag Kraken at your risk.