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[10ebbor10]

I've seen some on the KSP forums.

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[Skyrunner]

Awesome Now I need to make a huge spaceship with the sole purpose of running one of those huge engines at full power.

[da_nang]

Decided to add an extended dock to the station. It now supports rockets with the clamp-o-tron jr.

Spoiler: The Extended Dock Module (click to show/hide)

[ank]

Unstationary Space Station so far:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Engine module on the top left, and 4 Nexus modules.
The thing on top with the landing legs is my catcher module, that I needed after one of my astronauts ran out of RCS fuel.

I'm working on the lander modules, but I might be overdoing it:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[ThtblovesDF]

You can go into your folder and mod the ion engines, I made mine 30x stronger - still close to no effect.

[10ebbor10]

Problem with ion engines is that they're only usefull if you could use them together with timewarp. Which you can't.

[Chattox]

How are you people getting huge fuel tanks into orbit and docking them? I barely managed to get a probe up there.

[10ebbor10]

How are you people getting huge fuel tanks into orbit and docking them? I barely managed to get a probe up there.

A single mainsail engine + tank + 4 booster engines should be capable of getting a partly full orange tank into orbit.

[Chattox]

How are you people getting huge fuel tanks into orbit and docking them? I barely managed to get a probe up there.

A single mainsail engine + tank + 4 booster engines should be capable of getting a partly full orange tank into orbit.

Whaaaat? At what point does the weight of the engines overcome their lifting capability?

[Putnam]

...never? Engines would be useless if they didn't have a thrust-to-weight of more than one.

[10ebbor10]

How are you people getting huge fuel tanks into orbit and docking them? I barely managed to get a probe up there.

A single mainsail engine + tank + 4 booster engines should be capable of getting a partly full orange tank into orbit.

Whaaaat? At what point does the weight of the engines overcome their lifting capability?

Just to clarify, since I've been pretty not clear. The partly full fuel tank was on a second stage with it's own mainsail engine.

[PTTG??]

It might also be nice to have a very dense "Pebble Bed Reactor" clone of the radiothermal generator that pumps out substantially more power than the radiothermal one. Combine that with a VASMIR rocket and a Xenon container the size of a normal fuel tank, and you'd have a compromise engine like what people are looking for.

[10ebbor10]

I'd like heat to be a resource first. Being able to install radiators, or cooling vents(dumping liquid nitrogen) or redirecting heat from the engines to other nonimportant parts of the ship seems fun.

It might be even more fun if we got the ability to use fuel as an emergence cooling liquid.

[Starver]

Why do my rockets look so phallic?

It's a rocket.

Right said Freud

[Chattox]

...never? Engines would be useless if they didn't have a thrust-to-weight of more than one.

Derp, sorry, I meant the weight of the fuel. xD