Cyclops III
by Whoop_whoop_pull_up
uploaded 2020-07-09
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VAB
stock ship

Description

I built this (rather huge) craft a while back, as part of a career-mode mission to rescue Lizelle Kerman from an orbit well inside that of Moho. I’m rather doubtful that I made a profit off of that mission (especially given that, if memory serves, I had to launch several more craft to get Lizelle and her craft all the way back to Kerbin, with the capsule being handed off from klaw to klaw between each newly-depleted ship and its newly-arrived replacement). I did get Lizelle (and her craft) safely back to Kerbin within the mission’s deadline, though!

A stock rocket called Cyclops III. Built with 349 of the finest parts, its root part is xenonTankLarge.

Of the eleven lower-stage Vectors, only the outer eight are active at liftoff, with the center three igniting at SRB jettison; I think that might have been to help keep the vehicle from disintegrating while passing through max Q.

The lower stage (an Antilocapra IV, slightly modified by the addition of eight additional parachutes) is meant to be switched back to and recovered after the rest of the vehicle reaches orbit (hence all the parachutes and airbrakes).

Built in the VAB in KSP version 1.10.0.

Details

  • Type: VAB
  • Class: ship
  • Part Count: 349
  • Pure Stock
  • KSP: 1.10.0
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