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Description
This suborbital spacecraft consists of a manned Quicksilver capsule launched into space by a single-stage Jool missile.
The Jool, named after the largest planet in Kerbin’s solar system, is more powerful than the smaller Ochre rocket previously used, and can send a capsule arching much further downrange, but still isn’t capable of actually putting the spacecraft in orbit.
A stock rocket called Jool-Quicksilver. Built with 73 of the finest parts, its root part is Tube1.
The only part of Project Quicksilver not based on an actually-flown Mercury vehicle.
The Jool-Quicksilver is my KSP version of the Mercury-Jupiter, a cancelled project to send astronauts on much longer-range suborbital flights than the short hops possible with the Redstone (or, in KSP, the Ochre-Quicksilver) by launching the Mercury spacecraft atop a Jupiter missile. It was cancelled for cost reasons, in favour of simply putting astronauts in orbit on Mercury-Atlas (alias Globus-Quicksilver) missions… but there’s no reason to let real-world decisions prevent us from building and launching the craft in KSP, now, is there?
As with the Ochre-Quicksilver, retrofire is optional, but recommended if you’re striving for historical accuracy.
Try not to let the vehicle build up large angles of attack when ascending at high speed through the low-to-mid atmosphere, as it has somewhat of a tendency to swap ends when this happens.
Built in the VAB in KSP version 1.10.1.
Details
- Type: VAB
- Class: ship
- Part Count: 73
- Pure Stock
- KSP: 1.10.1
