KerbalX

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This one is really going to require some explanation! A lifter with a different concept…

I built a VAB on the Mun at my Tranquility base, yeah?…

We’ve been to the Mun a million times, I thought. Let’s start building and launching stuff from there. We’ve earned it.

First launch really high-lighted to the Top Brass, we could use an ‘econo-launcher’ here.

OK, so, what ought to change? We had fun with this.

The result was Gazelle. Why ‘Gazelle’? Yes, it ought to be called ‘Warthog’. ‘Gazelle’ is only a provisional name. (Expect an imminent ECO for name-change, OK?)

It lifts 108t (those three Jumbos) to 10km Mun orbit! And then has plenty of dV to spot-land back on that VAB roof! Yea-haaah.

Now the only catch is how you get it on that roof to go.

1. build it in the VAB with your payload
2. deploy it to the KSC launchpad
3. Alt-F12 Set Position to your VAB coordinates plus the roof height plus half the vehicle length with 90-degree orientation
4. get everybody in the mood with e.g. a count-down or some rodeo music
5. light the fuse
6. Go! for launch!!

ECO 2023-06-04 Changed name from fancifully stupid Gazelle to Warthog
ECO 2023-06-06 Added Rockomax X200-8 tanks as bookends for the accoutrements (fins, chutes etc) for convenient replacement of tank capacity and engine to configure Warthog as needed.