KerbalX

Details

• Type: VAB
• Class: ship
• Part Count: 742
• Pure Stock
• KSP: 1.12.3

Description

Version 2.2: Improved booster aesthetics, made sure it works in KSP 1.12.3.

Version 2.1: Better docking and RCS for the Laythe Shuttle. Better Resource Sat design.

Version 2.0: Rebuilt completely for KSP 1.12.2. Validated completely via Ultimate Jool 5 Challange.

This craft is proven to bring up to 7 kerbals from KSC to every moon around Jool, including Laythe and Tylo and returning them to Kerbin’s surface. Can science mine every moon to completion with rover, mobile bases, Helicopter, and at least one science station per moon, and leaves a base with rover on Tylo and Laythe and a reuseable shuttle in laythe orbit. To achieve this the craft is made of multiple modules:

• The Titanic Expendable Booster 7: can bring >600 tons to orbit, can place all the modules into High Kerbin Orbit in line for a nuclear rocket burn to Jool.

• Nuclear Tug 4+2: Easily has enough fuel to bring the others modules. Can operate with the Pol Mining Base below it.

• Pol Mining Base: For mining pol and producing all the fuel needed to get to all the other moons. Its landing base can hold up about anything on pol and keep it aimed straight up on terrain with up to 30 degrees of slope.

• Jool All-in-One Lander For landing and exploring every moon except Laythe. Comes with lab and rover. Can be reused completely on Vall, Bop and Pol, must leave the lab and rover on the surface of Tylo to be able to return to Low Tylo Orbit.

• Tylo De-Orbiting Staget: For use only for landing on Tylo from Low Tylo Orbit. Fuel up at Pol and use the Nuclear Tug to bring it to LTO, with the All-in-One Lander atop it it can terminate the orbit and then be discarded a few hundred meters above the surface of Tylo, the lander’s own engines can then be used to land.

• Laythe Helibase Base Can sail anywhere on Laythe via its propeller propulsion at up to 20 m/s, has a Helicopter for exploring the islands and continents of Laythe. Has mining equipment for manufacturing fuel for the Laythe Shuttle or to provide electrical power when solar power is too weak.

• Laythe Shuttle Once fueled up on Laythe’s sea, can fly back to Laythe Orbit with up to 10 Kerbals aboard. Can land and take off from Laythe’s seas repeatedly so long as fueled up each time on Laythe.

• Resource and Relay Sat: For finding mining locations on Pol and Laythe. Has docking ports for attaching to other modules Has its own solar power and antenna and can double as a coms relay.

• Heat Shield: For the upper stage of the all-in-one lander so it can return to Kerbin and survive re-entry.