What to use for an efficient rocket
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Pretty much. It can be brought down to just over 1/4 but 1/6 gives you plenty of room to attain a decent orbit and perform a dock.
Those rules work only for Low to mid Earth Orbit. If you want to go further, you have to make that transport / delivery stage part of the payload mass so that you can get that into space and then continue on from there.
As for TWR, it's a pretty easy one. It explains here all about how it works.
Brief summary it's your total force divided by your total mass. This gives you your acceleration in metres per second.
Then you divide that by the local gravity of where you happen to be (sat on the launch pad, 9.8).
Do this for each stage from the top down.
If you want to be real big brain, you can work it out for booster separations as well, to see if your boosters are coming off too late or too early.
Those rules work only for Low to mid Earth Orbit. If you want to go further, you have to make that transport / delivery stage part of the payload mass so that you can get that into space and then continue on from there.
As for TWR, it's a pretty easy one. It explains here all about how it works.
Brief summary it's your total force divided by your total mass. This gives you your acceleration in metres per second.
Then you divide that by the local gravity of where you happen to be (sat on the launch pad, 9.8).
Do this for each stage from the top down.
If you want to be real big brain, you can work it out for booster separations as well, to see if your boosters are coming off too late or too early.
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My two cents:
Indeed, all screenshots should go in one post, and we have thumbnail option for a reason!
Less boosters are sometimes good. They aren't strictly necessary for efficiency, they just need to be used when you have a low power core stage. There's other options. I once modified the two stage rocket in my profile photo into a lean beast that was 25% payload. With two serial stages.
Congrats on the docking, I shall follow your career with great interest.
Indeed, all screenshots should go in one post, and we have thumbnail option for a reason!
Less boosters are sometimes good. They aren't strictly necessary for efficiency, they just need to be used when you have a low power core stage. There's other options. I once modified the two stage rocket in my profile photo into a lean beast that was 25% payload. With two serial stages.
Congrats on the docking, I shall follow your career with great interest.
My two cents:
Indeed, all screenshots should go in one post, and we have thumbnail option for a reason!
Less boosters are sometimes good. They aren't strictly necessary for efficiency, they just need to be used when you have a low power core stage. There's other options. I once modified the two stage rocket in my profile photo into a lean beast that was 25% payload. With two serial stages.
Congrats on the docking, I shall follow your career with great interest.
Indeed, all screenshots should go in one post, and we have thumbnail option for a reason!
Less boosters are sometimes good. They aren't strictly necessary for efficiency, they just need to be used when you have a low power core stage. There's other options. I once modified the two stage rocket in my profile photo into a lean beast that was 25% payload. With two serial stages.
Congrats on the docking, I shall follow your career with great interest.
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I have a rocket core 64 metres wide. Place them side by side and then put engines under them. As long as they're the same length, they'll burn out at the same time and be considered a 'core' unto themselves.
If you try the USFS, you'll see a thread named 'Basics 101'. Inside that is a shitload of sub-threads and posts, one of which is docking.
Also, that post I've linked on this thread twice, if you scroll down through that it goes into encounters and docking as well. There's even several videos.
If you try the USFS, you'll see a thread named 'Basics 101'. Inside that is a shitload of sub-threads and posts, one of which is docking.
Also, that post I've linked on this thread twice, if you scroll down through that it goes into encounters and docking as well. There's even several videos.
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On the contrary, you can. Your problem is drag. Tons of it. A self-created and very efficient adversary. Horus Lupercal see what I did there
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On the contrary, you can. Your problem is drag. Tons of it. A self-created and very efficient adversary. Horus Lupercal see what I did there
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