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« on: March 31, 2014, 09:03:05 am »
I have completed my mad startship. 1,560 tons of fuel, rockets, and some fun stuff.
It has six Mainsails, a Griffon XX (the largest rocket in KW Rocketry), and twelve Thor SRBs (the largest solid boosters in KW Rocketry). It has just under 5,000 of Δv and room for 20 crew members. Its total fuel capacity is insane. It can barely fit in the VAB, I can't even scroll all the way up it, and it needs extensive strutting before it can even think of launching (or even not explosively deconstructing on contact with physics). Hell if I can figure out where, though.
Let's try something...smaller.
Only 1,316 tons and change, with over five km/s of Δv. Four Titans (large, decent-efficiency engines), five crew (the D-Team, because I chose my kerbonauts with names that start with "d").
It's still falling over and exploding.
I try to go for the bare minimum. 763 tons, one crew (Jeb), one engine, a crapton of fuel. It has over 57 kilounits of liquid fuel, nearly 70 kilounits of oxidizer, and close to 50 kilounits of electricity. And it has an antimatter drive, antimatter collectors, and a warp drive.
It also has a TWR less than one. Whoops. Even a Griffon XX can't lift this monstrosity alone! So, I instead add six Mainsails around the edges as "boosters", bringing the TWR up to 1.61 (until they run dry). I then switch the central engine to a more efficient Vesta (another KW part). TWR down to 1.24, but eh.
I'll launch it after class. My plan: Launch this thing, then run a refueling mission, then...I dunno.
