KerbalX

Description

Can deploy a payload to LKO then re-enter and fly back to KSC without refueling.

How to fly this craft:
- before launch monitor a rapier
- stage rapiers
- when rapiers are at 60 kn of thrust, release brakes and stage vector engine
- climb to 5000 m
- level to accelerate past 400 m/s
- climb at 5-6 degrees while accelerating to 20 km
- when accelerated past 1600 m/s toggle Rapier mode to closed cycle and climb at 5 degrees
- when apoapsis is past 100 km turn off Vector engine, as speed is lost due to drag keep boosting the apoapsis to the desired level
- start NERV engines, and start circularization burn 40 s before the deadline
- as all oxidizer is expended, toggle rapier mode to airbreathing
- deploy payload at desired orbit
- return to 75 km circular orbit
- perform re-entry burn, then turn off NERV engines
- align craft to 5 degrees above the surface prograde vector
- maneuver the craft gently while in atmo or it risks trying to fly backwards.

Craft versions:

• v1: SSTO based on DALL-E generation
• v2: rapiers + nervs
• v2c: rapiers + vector + nervs, more cargo, no dlc parts, at 90 km with 200 m/s
• v2c1: fewer rapiers, less ox, at 90 km with 1200 m/s

A stock aircraft called DALLE-01 v2c1. Built with 116 of the finest parts, its root part is mk3Cockpit.Shuttle.

Built in the SPH in KSP version 1.10.1.

Details

• Type: SPH
• Class: ship
• Part Count: 116
• Pure Stock
• KSP: 1.10.1