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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2024
- Single stage from Kerbin's surface, to Eve's surface, and back to Kerbin. Mass on the runway is 51.7 tons.
As far as I know, this is the lightest such craft that doesn't use magic wings. Previous record was 57.4 tons by nonRO-tesseract. A bit of lateral thinking here - this can go down to sea level, refuel, and then climb a mountain before refueling again. So technically this can be a sea level Eve SSTO as well.
With the xenon drained this plane becomes pretty hard to control so I just did a water landing. I am impressed at the capabilities of the KSC recovery crew.
Not all gravity assists and ion maneuvers are shown in this video because there were a lot of them and it would be boring.
Music: Zombie Hyperdrive - The Destroyer - เกม
at first I thought "oh cool, an ssto from eve to eve orbit" and then they took off from fucking kerbin
This song was in my playlist that I used to listen to on loop while playing. It's a banger.
Super neat and compact design too
Very underrated!
Heavens above, this is insane
What was the main engine used here?? Based on the plume, a Vector maybe? Or an aerospike?
Wow it's crazy seeing you build something over 10 tons nonetheless 50!
In any case, nice!
Hard to make an eve ssto for 10 tons
epic
simply beautiful
actually the goat
Joli. Est ce que tu peux préciser tes moteurs ?
Nice! Way better than my bulky ssta
cool shape
How did you survive the heating in Eve's atmosphere?
if you look at the thermal gauges, I almost didn't!
Why did you use those wings I was always under the impressing the ones with liquid fuel inside are better?
I don't use a rapier or nuclear engine so there's no point in the additional fuel tank.
surely you could get rid of the vertical stabilizer? at least replace it with something lighter?
probably
But then it would look less cool
this is tiny