Inspired by Lemniscate Biscuit 's solid booster to the moon and back mission, I've decided to take srbs only to orbit, without any exploits or cheats. With an abysmal 60 Isp, this abomination just barely fits in the build space, and can just barely take the 4.8 ton payload to orbit.
So many fuel bars
After a laggy ascent that burns through a whopping 11 stages of boosters, the rocket reaches suborbital trajectory, with one small srb stage remaining.
The final srb is lit near apoapsis, and the payload is just barely pushed into LEO.
After completing a few orbits, the payload uses the retrorockets to deorbit and reenter the atmosphere.
And so the mission concludes. With a 0.2% payload fraction, I don't think this is becoming useful any time soon....
So many fuel bars
After a laggy ascent that burns through a whopping 11 stages of boosters, the rocket reaches suborbital trajectory, with one small srb stage remaining.
The final srb is lit near apoapsis, and the payload is just barely pushed into LEO.
After completing a few orbits, the payload uses the retrorockets to deorbit and reenter the atmosphere.
And so the mission concludes. With a 0.2% payload fraction, I don't think this is becoming useful any time soon....
