Flexilis Anatis
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So I enjoy making space stations. A few months ago, I began work on a new station. After I launched the core and main arms of the station up, I created the solar panels, which is where I made my mistake. I designed the solar arms in a way that boxed in part of the station, thereby limiting further development. Today, I realized that none of my current stations are large enough to refuel multiple big ships without a resupply, so I chose to try to change this old station into my major fuel source.
Before:
Instead of the entire station radiating out from a central core, it instead will be a long pole with the modules sticking off that. Now, I didn’t intend to make a thread about this until I started adding the fuel, so I have no screenshots of the launch of the new solar arrays, only one of them already on the station.
Then I began designing a fuel source worthy of the size of these new solar panels. After downsizing to something that I can realistically launch, I came to a module weighing 1200 tons. That may not be a lot for some of you, but it is the largest amount that I’ve ever tried to launch. And this brings me to my monstrosity of a rocket.
This thing was not built well. This is not a rocket I am going to keep, much less tune. It has innumerable problems, but it was built for one purpose: to get the fuel into orbit.
And to my great surprise, it did.
And it docked. Then, I found that one was not enough.
So I used that horrific launcher three more times. Thankfully, the large pieces are done (unless I decide to put more fuel on). Next up will be habitation modules, but... maybe tomorrow... or Tuesday, I think I’m taking a break.
Before:
Instead of the entire station radiating out from a central core, it instead will be a long pole with the modules sticking off that. Now, I didn’t intend to make a thread about this until I started adding the fuel, so I have no screenshots of the launch of the new solar arrays, only one of them already on the station.
Then I began designing a fuel source worthy of the size of these new solar panels. After downsizing to something that I can realistically launch, I came to a module weighing 1200 tons. That may not be a lot for some of you, but it is the largest amount that I’ve ever tried to launch. And this brings me to my monstrosity of a rocket.
This thing was not built well. This is not a rocket I am going to keep, much less tune. It has innumerable problems, but it was built for one purpose: to get the fuel into orbit.
And to my great surprise, it did.
And it docked. Then, I found that one was not enough.
So I used that horrific launcher three more times. Thankfully, the large pieces are done (unless I decide to put more fuel on). Next up will be habitation modules, but... maybe tomorrow... or Tuesday, I think I’m taking a break.