Super Tanker - 24kL to LKO
Yeah, yeah, I know. But after the first dozen times manually launching a 1200 part, 2 fps design, I just want to click Launch and go make a sandwich. My larger ships tend to wobble to pieces or collide with seperating stages if I let Mechjeb fly them though. This has become my all purpose tanker since it doesn't require any piloting. I just turn off auto-warp to apoapsis, or turn on RCS once the engines cut so it can turn in time to circularize.
Each of the tanks is attached to a docking port, and the fuel lines are set up to keep it balanced and crossfeed to the main dock. I normally use Quantum Struts (mod) to attach this design directly to some atomic engines and whatever landers I'm taking along (last 2 pictures).
Posted Apr 14, 2013, 12:19 AM UTC