KerbalX

Description

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A stock transport called KP Luna Vista. Built in the KSP 1.7.3 VAB with 309 stock parts.

This is undoubtedly the best-ever use I have made of my Aquila Gen VIII launcher – which features a broad load-carrying platform with positions for 8+1 individual loads…

The KP Luna Vista mission profile is to deliver a super-refinery to a lunar body for assembly upon the surface. (I myself only envisage ever deploying one of these and only on the Mun due to its excessive output capability.)

Atop the Aquila VIII launcher sits a Spider sky crane in the center, surrounded by 8 Orb refinery modules on the perimeter.

Once a Snowflake has been deposited upon a premium-grade equatorial site, the Spider may be used to make 8 trips to it to transport and install each of the Orb modules.

From the launch pad:
- ensure you have an Engineer loaded?
- Radial Out Sfc mode
- pitch down 5 deg at 70 m/s and SAS Hold until AoA centered; then SAS Prograde Sfc
- SAS Prograde Orbit mode @ 20km
- jettison outer boosters when their fuel is exhausted; jettison nose cones
- plot the circularization node and circularize
- this should yield a smooth ride into space with sufficient dV remaining to reach the Mun
- jettison the Rhino when no longer required and light the NERVa to finish the job, possibly during the translunar injection
- KP Luna Vista has a tail dock to receive an interplanetary transit injection booster, if required
- Good Luck

Sited in 14% grade ore, a full Snowflake refinery should produce a minimum of 9 kal / sec, which should be sufficient to fill a Zippo super-tanker in under two hours.

[Historical note: during development, this KP lunar refinery effort was known as Project OVERKILL. We think we met our goal.]

ECO 2020-10-01 repositioned Spider SSM; reorientated radiators for clearance
ECO 2020-10-13 fixed missing radiators; adjusted Mammoth fuel pri; forked v1
ECO 2020-10-14 upgraded with new ORB, tuned for 12+% ore grade; westward; fuel lines for Spider