Fly me to the moon

[mariohobbs]

Likely the only build i will ever detail Rocket Link

I'll add the logs for the shuttle itself in the next post

 

[mariohobbs]

Logs and the reference image

 

[DioSpaghetti]

Such contrast between the shuttle and booster

 

[mariohobbs]

My computer was lagging when testing the shuttle so i figured i'd play it safe, and i was getting lazy after doing the shuttle lol. for the cargo bay doors i used a ½ width solar panel with a texture. The shuttle itself also had really high delta V, it was nearly an SSTO except for the whole circularizing the orbit thing, now that it has an orbiter it'll probably make it to the moon lol. I also had a bit of fuel left over when the shuttle was landing so i nearly crashed, had to do a lander style landing where i burn fuel at the end in conjunction with parachutes.

 

[New Horizons]

Booster + Shuttle = Buttle

 

[UN Cosmo Navy]

Gotta a question, is the payload 10% of the entire rocket?

 

[mariohobbs]

It's a bit less at around 3%, I could've had a heavier payload but i couldn't really think of what i could put. The shuttle itself left me creatively dry. Was there a weight requirement for the shuttle payload? Though in testing i was able to get it into orbit, deploy the payload and stuff with a max payload of 25 tons which is around 10% of the total rocket weight.