[Showcase] Show Me Your Cargo Bays (aka How'd You Pack THAT in There?) Post Ur Mk2 and Mk3 Cargoes!

[eddiew]

Who said the standard MK2 bay isn't big enough for a useful rover?

An off-centre docking port at the back of the bay held this little rover just right so's nothing stuck through the doors/roof.

The helmet clipping was a bit annoying - I foolishly tested on Kerbin, with texture replacer, so they weren't wearing any as they drove round KSC.

[inigma]

The STS ComSats payload (single subassembly!):

The ComSat payload subassembly paired with the STS Service Module subassembly above:

[jake9039]

Mmmm what do I hid in a cargo bay... My snazzy little science craft for coastin out to mun or dipping into the atm o of duna this little beauty is great fun to take for little trips out away from the "mothership" aslo there great little shuttles

http://i.imgur.com/pv5LM8g.jpg

Mk 2 EP for Chubby

The lift comes courtesy of my SSTO "Chubby"

http://i.imgur.com/KVDxSa1.jpg

when I saw that, first thing I thought was "make a cargo plan, to put in the shuttle, and the aforementioned cargo plane should hold a small rocket"

[Wabbit]

I can put a couple science probes in one. I like to drop them over different biomes on planets from the bay and transmit the science back.

[moronwrocket]

Cargo bay? We don't need no steenkin' cargo bay!

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[WhiteKnuckle]

Ha! Now that is pretty darn cool.

How big of a cargo section can you put in the middle?

[ibrahimhamza48]

Truss section for space station. Carried on my shuttle here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/108397-KRTS-Radnor-%28Mk2-Shuttle%29?p=1691662#post1691662

Here it is attached to my space station on the right. The spacecraft on the bottom is Soyuz.

[s1l3nt_c0y0t3]

@DerpenWolf Why do you hate wings so much?

[moronwrocket]

@WhiteKnuckle

I've launched it with the equivalent of 2 modules, max of about 6 tons. This is with stock aero + stock drag fix (no drag from fuel).

[keeper]

ALL of these snaps are awesome

[inigma]

Space Shuttle Intrepid with the STS Service Module and STS ComSat subassemblies installed in the bay. Kerbals are working to retreive a failed satellite and secure it for return to KSC. Download found here:

STS Service Module: http://kerbalx.com/inigma/STS%20Service%20Module

STS ComSats: http://kerbalx.com/inigma/STS%20ComSats%20%28STS-5%29

Video of their assembly and use (and a bunch of other STS subassemblies):

[LitaAlto]

My first SSTO lifter, the Trident, shown here in its stock configuration. (I have another version that is 6.4 tons lighter than the stock config, thanks to longer, lighter, stronger landing legs from SpaceY.)

Here the Trident is delivering Salute 4, an 8.25 ton observation platform and space station deployed at a 250 km circular orbit.

Edited March 3, 2015 by LitaAlto

[xoknight]

A Hubble Space Telescope (not the greatest looking), It was really a headscratcher to try and find a way to squeeze those solar panels in the cargo bay. I needed some MMU's and detachable Solar panels in the end though.

[inigma]

A Hubble Space Telescope (not the greatest looking), It was really a headscratcher to try and find a way to squeeze those solar panels in the cargo bay. I needed some MMU's and detachable Solar panels in the end though.

http://i.imgur.com/KCq1PRa.png

http://i.imgur.com/ogPnR14.png

http://i.imgur.com/ha0UfXV.png

http://i.imgur.com/fOqK0p3.png

Very creative solution to think of stashing and EVAing the solar panels.

[hellblazer]

[Vashts]

[freqout]

This is from... 0.24, I think. The goal was to build a cost-effective (and cool-looking) probe and launch system that could get to any body in the system. It's a very tight squeeze in the cargo bay but it fits without clipping. These little puppies were so efficient that some of them made visits to two planets and so light that I was able to land one on on Eve without a chute. The plane flew great too.

What you can't see here is that the probe was mounted to the bay on an Infernal Robotics pivot. To launch it the pilot would first blow a tiny stack separator that held some struts from the cargo bay wall to the otherwise-unconnected end of the probe. It would them pivot up 90 degrees and be ejected from the bay via another decoupler. It was pretty slick.For a demonstration, you can take a look at it's big brother.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Here are my space station crew modules:

Not actually designed for cargo bays, however they fit perfectly.

EDIT:

Whoops, forgot download.

Enjoy:

craft file here

Edited March 13, 2015 by Mad Rocket Scientist
Forgot DL

[Vashts]

Gooseneck class with Manta rover

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[inigma]

Here are my space station crew modules:

http://i.imgur.com/Up2MmNu.png

Not actually designed for cargo bays, however they fit perfectly.

EDIT:

Whoops, forgot download.

Enjoy:

craft file here

Does this require mods?

[Stone Blue]

Does this require mods?

Its on the linked page...Looks like only FAR and ProceduralFairings are required...???

MR Scientist, I'm highly interested in those docking ports...I dont recognize them..are they part of ProcFairings?...For some reason I have never been able to get ProcFairings or ProcWings to work for me in 0.25, so I havent been able to use either in about a year...

[jake9039]

they are part of something else. the docking port is part of vens stock part revamp.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

It should be stock, unless I forgot to remove the fairing base ring(I don't think so).

It does however use stock revamp, which works with stock on most parts, tell me if it doesn't work with stock.

[Alchemist]

I've got this one the other way around...

Docking to the station

Redocking. For safety reasons, the crew used the station's return vehicle to fly home.

Actually had to undock the payload because it almost fell out... And then it laid in the cargo bay normally without causing any problems.

And here we are

[pwlnw]

some stock cargobays

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Edited March 19, 2015 by pwlnw