Pride of Antiga - 500t MK3 Capital ship

[Wulfg4r]

Hello Kerballers,

I'd love to present you my last effort to build a capital ship:

here's the Pride of Antiga Capital Ship class!

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It can lift from Kerbin, using solid boosters and 4 Mainsail rockets to reach LKO, then the 9 LV-N to circularize and manuver.

For lifting, I've emptied most of the fuel tanks to lesser the payload (you can also go full loaded, cargo bay included; I've reached a successful lift with more then 500t mass!); once in orbit, I've refueled and it's ready to go!

Once refueled, it has more or less 7000 deltaV on nuclear engines, making it more then capable of long range missions.

It has plenty of RCS and a SAS wheel in the cargo bay, giving decent handling for a ship of this size.

The docking ports are:

• 3 shielded standard ports, 2 on bottom and one upfront, by the command pod;
  
• 3 docking ports sr., 2 inside the cargo bay and one behind command pod (yes, it's detachable);
  
• 6 docking ports jr., on top and bottom near the engine section, to attach 6 planetary probes ready for deployment.
  

Here's the link for the .craft file:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1196113/Pride%20of%20Antiga.craft

Comments/critics/suggestions are welcome!

Thanks,

- Wulf

Edited January 9, 2015 by Wulfg4r
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[ExplorerKlatt]

Very nice! What's the part count on that thing?

[Wulfg4r]

Very nice! What's the part count on that thing?

Here's the full data:

• Size: 50.8 x 5.1 x 11.7 m
  
• Mass (full tanks, solid boosters, no payload): 561.6 t
  
• Part count: 270
  

Edited January 9, 2015 by Wulfg4r
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