KerbalX

Description

Bologna is an expansion of Egg.

When you scale up the volume of the S4-512 tank inside to that of the whole fairing, er tank, you get storage capacity for:
* 3.6 million kals LF
* 4.4 million kals OX

Yes, that’s a total of 8 million kallons of fuel. Strictly No Smoking.

Why am I doing this? I have placed an Atlas III into operation at Minmus. It’s able to lift so much fuel, I need a decent size reservoir in orbit. I will be starting operations for Minmus interplanetary departures.

Two ways to access the internal tank for fuel pumping:
1. camera zoom inside and R-click to select (fiddly)
2. mark the LF checkbox in the Resources panel; pin the three tanks open; uncheck the LF box; open other tanks; if the internal tanks get minimized, just pass the cursor over that LF checkbox in Resources to pop them properly open (also fiddly)

Launch Procedure

• pin Bologna payload tank and Dreadnought central S3 open
• SAS Sfc HOLD and ignition
• 120 m/s, select Sfc PRO
• raise AP to 80 km
• at 36km, when SAS auto-selects ORB, instantly revert to Sfc
• use low throttle to maintain AP:80
• at 50km, jettison nose cone
• plot circularization
• at 70km, set Brakes
• begin circularization; jettison S1 (Twin Boars) when exhausted
• pump all fuel from S2 S3 tank up into the Bologna payload tank
• raise PE:-280; jettison Dreadnought S2 (Mammoth); set a KAC timer on it
• circularization complete; return to Dreadnought S2 and ride it to recovery

ECO-2023-06-14 Major overhaul improves launch reliability (1.11.2); now mounted on a SuperDreadnought; single internal tank