Team Hawk Shuttle two

[ExoAerospace]

Due to engine values not be equal the Judges would have accepted it as engine stretching and therefore my submission would be denied so i equalized
the engine size values to 0.5 for X & Y Axis so that is fixed

on a another not I decided to redo entire mission because last mission had accidental stretched engine which im not sure would have done anything
but the Judges are incredibly precies so even if I had a 000000000000000000000 this goes on for a while 000000000.01 advantage it would have probably been denied note I’m not complaining at all i like a good challenge so anyway here new mission ps I changed color of shuttle because why not






Mooncrasher your thoughts a wise humble not trying to take over world puppet master

 

[ExoAerospace]

i don’t mean to seem impatient but is anyone going read this

 

[ExoAerospace]

Mooncrasher

 

[UN Cosmo Navy]

Still

 

[ExoAerospace]

Engine shrink is ok because i does not affect thrust or mass whats so ever i shrank it for cosmetic purposes only

 

[Hermes]

I'm not a judge or anything but I don't think you are allowed to edit the engines at all. Making engines smaller allows you to fit more in a smaller space and easier to protect them during re-entry.

 

[Hermes]

Also, how large is your payload? It has to be at least 10% of the whole rocket's weight. You are also not able to clip the payload at all.

 

[ExoAerospace]

says no where i can’t shrink engines just cant stretch them

 

[Hermes]

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says no where i can’t shrink engines just cant stretch them

Altaïr can you resolve this?

 

[ExoAerospace]

The payload clipping is probably right i will have to redesign shuttle thank you hermes and cosmo for calling me out

 

[Altaïr]

Shrinking the engine is ok.

Generally speaking, stretching/shrinking vertically an engine modifies thrust and fuel consumption in proportion, so in this regard it's fine. The problem is that the engine's mass is unchanged. So if you strech an engine by a factor 2, you have the thrust of 2 engines, the fuel consumption of 2 engines, but only the mass of a single engine, which is considered an unfair advantage. It can be accepted if the appropriate dead weight is added to compensate though.
If you shrink it, this is the opposite situation: thrust and fuel consumption are reduced, but you still have the mass of a full engine, so it's at your disadvantage. Since you can't take advantage of it we have no reason to forbid it, you have to deal with the mass penalty though.