KerbalX

-Basic Description

Details

• Type: VAB
• Class: ship
• Part Count: 630
• Pure Stock

This craft was made more for fun than to be anything spectacular. The challenge behind this craft was to transport the Big Three as well as a full compliment of scientific equipment to the surface of Duna and back, all only using the Spark rocket engine. Needless to say, many of them were required, 254 to be exact! Somehow, this is not the most engines I’ve ever used on a craft. This craft has only around 6600 m/s of delta-V, so it goes without saying that the margins of error when using this craft are SLIM. This precision was required to keep the size of the craft down, since every ton that was added to its mass would require an additional 2 sparks. Beasts of this nature are not for the faint of heart or trypophobes!

-Flight Information

-During the launch an optimal gravity turn will have the craft naturally reach 45 degrees at 500 m/s.

-When landing on Duna a small bit of retro-burning is required to slow the craft to a landing, try to be gentle with the landing as the craft does not have landing legs to save on mass.

-The aerobreaking at Kerbin must be split into two passes otherwise the craft will burn up.