Kerbal Space Program

Kerbal Space Program

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SC -SSTO-1-Space Ram
   
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Craft Type: Plane
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25 May, 2022 @ 12:49am
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SC -SSTO-1-Space Ram

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Star Crazed Campaign, first SSTO.

Publishing this one because it's one of the most efficient SSTOs I've ever built. 2 crew and 12 passengers. Has some cargo space and is easily reworked as pure cargo.

1 - Toggle Nuclear Engines
2 - Toggle Rapier Engines.
3 - Toggle Whiplash Engines
4 - Manual Rapier mode toggle.
0 - Toggle Solar Panels.

Flight Instructions:

Toggle off Nuclear at Take off. Full Throttle. Keep it at 10 degrees pitch. Toggle Whiplash off and Nuclear on when the Whiplash engines shut down. When Rapier Engines switch to Rocket mode fly her straight to escape atmosphere.

Has enough oxidizer to achieve low orbit but can use just the nuclear engines to achieve orbit once in space with longer burns, and save enough oxidizer for a few hundred delta-V with the rapiers.

Note that the Oxidizer feed in the Bicoupler is turned off to keep some oxidizer in reserve for RCS docking maneuvers. It's docking port faces down.