Lifter Family names

[JPmAn]

Can anyone give me any lifter name ideas to release on curse?

Please reply, I will give you credit for the names.

I will be planning on 6 families

Ranging from manned to extra planetary probes

Edited January 29, 2015 by JPmAn

[SkyRender]

I think you need to be a bit more specific in what sort of payloads they're going to be lifting. Though I suppose a good idea would be to list them according to how much collateral damage they're going to cause if the launch goes haywire. So you could call them Little Bang, Big Boom, Huge Blast, Crater-Maker, Catastrophe-in-Waiting, and Rocket Apocalypse.

[Bill Phil]

Alpha- light lifters

Beta- medium lifters

Gamma- heavy lifters

Omega- super heavy lifters

[JPmAn]

Thanks, Bill Phil

[Bill Phil]

Those are some names for a series of rockets I never built....

It works like the Angara:

Alpha 1 has 1 core,

Alpha 2 has some boosters

Alpha 3 has 3 cores

and so on.

Same for the Beta, Gamma, and Omega families.

Oh, and, your welcome.

[Axelord FTW]

Animal names. Because animals are cute and science is cute.

Ergo, animal named/themed rocketry parts is cool (and cute).

Warbler

Crow

Hog (yes, hogs are cute ([PROOF!])

Bison

Rhino

Orca

I even arranged them by order of magnitude (unrelated to the Cute Factor).

[Rolanvorxariat]

UCKK (From oldest to newest)

Moho (Mercury)

Kebnis (gemini)

Sentar (Saturn)

Kelta (Delta)

KSLS (SLS)

Jaymak (falcon)

Titan (Super-heavy lifters)

KKKP:

K (R-#)

high Jump-s, high leap-M, high leap-H (All long march varients)

antimatter (Proton)

Stellis (new concept heavy lifter, reusable)

[Delrey]

Mine are called:

Mega N0

Mega N1 (now Mega N1 R with a recoverable second stage)

Mega N2

I'm only on 2.5m parts so it will continue.

I've started naming by craft after women so this is named after Megan Fox.

[QuesoExplosivo]

I have:

various reusable spaceplane launchers,

the N1, for big stuff that doesn't fit in cargo bays,

the N4 (4 times as big as the N1), for huge stuff that doesn't fit in cargo bays,

and the N9 (9 times as big as the N1), for obscenely huge stuff that also doesn't fit in cargo bays.

The N1, N4, and N9 use a reusable liquid core made of Kerbodyne parts, and disposable solid boosters. The number of boosters varies based on the payload, but at launch the rockets usually derive about half their thrust from the core and half from the boosters.

[Hannu]

Animal names. Because animals are cute and science is cute.

Ergo, animal named/themed rocketry parts is cool (and cute).

I prefer scientific names of insects. Typically genera. They are cool and language independent. I have Nymphalis, Volucella, Hybomitra, Catocala, Sapedra, etc.

You can find lists for example in Wikipedia. Here is a lisf of english hoverflies. If you click links under "Scientific classification" you can find practically unlimited source of names of living things.

[OhioBob]

I use to call my light, medium and heavy class launch vehicles by the names Dart, Arrow and Javelin. Now I generally just name them LV-XX, where the XX indicates the maximum lift capacity in tonnes to LKO.

[JPmAn]

I have made a second stage for the KSLS

- - - Updated - - -

Thanks to Chicken1880 for the name

[Wabbit]

Swag-rockets. Nuff said

[Falcon Coupe]

Boostermax as a family or company name. Then your favourite cool names for the individual rockets.

I use names such as: Broadsword, Magnum, Strongbow, Vision, Triden, 6 shooter, 8 iron, Zulu 9, Doomsday machine, Ominus Major, Tiny Tim.

[LostOblivion]

I have what I call my Deltakerb family of rockets. Deltakerb I through IV. :-)

[Rainbow-Dashie]

Mine follow sort of the American way of naming weapons and stuff, starts out as a formal name like "M4E8 Sherman" but the "Kerbals" call it "Sherman Easy Eight".

My rockets will start out at "M1 LKO-A" (Model One, Low Kerbin Orbit - Autonomous) which is now known as the "M1 Lakota"

[hirschhornsalz]

From light to heavy:

Meat Loaf

Problem Child

Unforseen Consequences

Grey Area

Killing Time

Glacial Erratic

[Red Iron Crown]

From light to heavy:

Meat Loaf

Problem Child

Unforseen Consequences

Grey Area

Killing Time

Glacial Erratic

Love those books, Banks has a great way with ship names.

[Janos1986]

I should start naming rockets as bands and songs, like Jojo's stands.

[NecroBones]

I just name everything as some variant of "Up-Goer" these days.

Then again, naming everything after flightless birds is fun too.

[Gargamel]

I have my Keflex series, run from 30-120 tons, and my Kobiashi Series, that run from 100 - 900 ton lifters.

Framerate is inversely proportional to the mass being lifted.

[Sampa]

Please, do NOT use the name Phoenix. I am preparing to share my main heavy lifter by that name on here as a way of sharing my most successful line of rockets.

[sporkafife]

I'm extremely boring, so my lifters are just named after the Greek alphabet. The 1.25m launchers are Alpha, 2.5m launchers are Beta, and the new huge 3.75m rocket parts are Gamma. And they have a number after their name corresponding to the mass they can carry to a 100km LKO. For example, my 2.5m launcher that can carry 25.5 tonnes into orbit is the "Beta 255". Pretty boring, I know

[JPmAn]

Please, do NOT use the name Phoenix. I am preparing to share my main heavy lifter by that name on here as a way of sharing my most successful line of rockets.

I won't use it

[Bill Phil]

I'm extremely boring, so my lifters are just named after the Greek alphabet. The 1.25m launchers are Alpha, 2.5m launchers are Beta, and the new huge 3.75m rocket parts are Gamma. And they have a number after their name corresponding to the mass they can carry to a 100km LKO. For example, my 2.5m launcher that can carry 25.5 tonnes into orbit is the "Beta 255". Pretty boring, I know

Maybe I can build the Lambda 100, solid first stage liquid second like the Ares 1.