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#29
I've never landed on a single one.
 

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What's your favorite probe in real life or SFS?
Hard to say, there are many I like. From those notably:
- Voyager 2, only probe that made a fly-by of Uranus and Neptune, and one of the 5 existing that are leaving the solar system.
- Cassini-Huygens, a probe that orbited around Saturn during many years, and managed to land a small lander on Titan.
- New Horizons, only probe that made a fly-by of Pluto, and another one leaving the solar system
- Rosetta-Philae, first probe to orbit a comet and land something on it.
- Hayabusa 2, that managed to visit an asteroid, and send back some samples of it to Earth.
- Curiosity and Perseverance, probably the most ambitious Mars missions to date.
 

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My favorite probes gotta be the Parker Solar Probe. Sure the voyager and other probes are classics, but this probe basically touched the sun!
 

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Unless something changed, absolute garbage. 60 ISP? My water powered rocket has more :p
Funny you should mention that....
I said that one could make an Ecorocket replica using.... ballasted SRBs.:p
(Ballasted to make the TWR more realistic for ecorocket;))
 

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#42
Srbs are cool, but we should be able to add solid fuel tanks to extend their run time
 

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#45
question:
What's the biggest payload that you've launched in the IRIS pack? Drop a link!
Umm, I don't RMB
At it rn
Edit: Attempting 56t single bp noclip
Games dying tho
Edit 2: whole rocket crashed after i clicked a docking port, literally disappeared?!
 
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#46
What's the biggest payload that you've launched in the IRIS pack? Drop a link
Ah, I remember that one:
Kiloton Club

1000 tons to orbit, it took a few hours to design the launcher that would do this. :D

With a legit launcher (that fits into the building grid) I can't remember though.
 

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#47
Daily question:
What's the biggest payload that you've launched in the IRIS pack? Drop a link!

If you don't have IRIS pack, what about payload out of Earth's SOI?
I'd say the biggest payload I launched out of the soi was about 700-800 tonnes
 

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#48
I just managed to reach the symbolic threshold of 100 tons in LEO. With a legit rocket, here is it:
Spaceflight Simulator_2022-02-12-22-32-45.jpg
Some fuel tanks are streched to fit the required size, but that's still some fair bp edit. The result is cleaner but I don't get any advantage from this. Nearly 1600 tons on the pad, that's a big baby :p

Here is the flight:
Spaceflight Simulator_2022-02-12-22-32-59.jpg Spaceflight Simulator_2022-02-12-22-34-35.jpg Spaceflight Simulator_2022-02-12-22-35-15.jpg Spaceflight Simulator_2022-02-12-22-37-14.jpg Spaceflight Simulator_2022-02-12-22-39-46.jpg

100 tons is one fourth of the ISS, not bad.

Something tells me I will need that capacity soon...
 

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I just managed to reach the symbolic threshold of 100 tons in LEO. With a legit rocket, here is it:
View attachment 78787
Some fuel tanks are streched to fit the required size, but that's still some fair bp edit. The result is cleaner but I don't get any advantage from this. Nearly 1600 tons on the pad, that's a big baby :p

Here is the flight:
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100 tons is one fourth of the ISS, not bad.

Something tells me I will need that capacity soon...
Congratulations