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Eve SSTO - The Jokerbird. Reaches orbit with just enough gas to potentially maybe rendezvous with your refueling station.
Uses some cheaty tactics - like clipping a Mammoth info a fairing to cut its immense drag, and radiators in the nose to survive atmospheric heating - but all stock parts. Uses 6 props to climb to 13.5k+ feet, a Mammoth to ascend to space, and 3 Nukes to circularize.
Flight profile was arrived at experimentally after much suffering - if you find a better way let me know.
- Active props using AG3
- Fly as high as possible, usually ~13,500km
- Active rockets with AG2, close service bay doors with AG4, and kill props with AG3.
- Pitch up to 25deg
- Fly up at 25deg until nose begins to overheat. Keep going until overheat begins to subside.
- Pitch down towards horizon. Mammoth will cut out at some point - keep flying towards the horizon until ~1:30m from apoapsis.
- At ~1:30m from apoapsis, begin to nose up. Shoot for 30deg nose up by apoapsis.
- Hold at 30deg until orbit is circularized. Cut engines.
- Deactivate nose radiators & fuel cells to save fuel. You made it!
Enjoy.
A stock aircraft called Jokerbird Redox. Built with 122 of the finest parts, its root part is fairingSize3.
Built in the SPH in KSP version 1.12.3.
Details
- Type: SPH
- Class: spaceplane
- Part Count: 122
- Pure Stock
- KSP: 1.12.3
