You know dude, sometimes I feel like I'm trying to staple shit to a wall when it comes to the subject of TWR. It's an issue so widespread that even the content creator is like 'why tho?' because it's probably the easiest concept in rocketry, the lowest hanging fruit of efficiency, the only data set that the VAB screen gives you, it's one of the few bits of advice the old tutorial pictures gave you and people
still gotta break the sound barrier before they've cleared the tower.
I mean, I could sit here and explain (again) that keeping the same rocket but with a more considered engine set up will put the same payload into a higher orbit cos efficiency is better than speed.
I could even explain how if he
really wants to use titans, he could keep the exact same engine set up, make a larger rocket, double the payload capacity and discover that doing efficiency once is much,
much faster than 'fast' multiple times.
Man wants to use titans so he can save 30 seconds putting 30 tons into orbit (gotta go 'fast'), then thats his choice. He's not asked for advice or help, just wants to display his toys and should be free to do so.
Way back in the dark and early days of 1.4 when I'd just got my hands on the DLC, my imaginatively named Titan rocket (see what I did there) had a
with payload TWR of between 5.5 and 6 and with only 15 titan engines spread across 6 boosters and a core, could place the enormous mass of 100-150 tons into LEO.
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What is aerodynamics?
This beast built my first space stations and even managed (
just) to get a station core and blocky out to Ganymede orbit on my first Jove trip
And no, you can't have the blueprints. They're gone forever.