iCon 5
The eighth and final vehicle in my family of heavy lift rockets
Features:
Reusable First Stage
Pad with Strongback
A modified version of KAL V1.1 by KellyNyanbinary
Either fly my VacSat, or insert whatever you want inside the fairing to send to a variety of orbits. (LDO GTO or Lunar Orbit. You can try Cylero, but I can’t make guarantees)
Enough Delta-V to send the satellite to Lunar Orbit and land the 1st Stage
Be sure to enable the RCS to be able to control the booster’s attitude during landing
This features the Vos Aerospace Communications Satellite Four.
As always, leave an upvote if you can, and have a good day!
Note: I improved on KellyNyanbinary’s design for the RCS thrusters on the first stage. I just added more ports than are on her rocket and changed the performance to make it more efficient.
About the Rocket:
• Four Natural Gas/Oxygen Full Flow Staged Engines power the impressive Core Booster
• Four banks of Cold Gas Thrusters around the core booster for attitude control during landing
• A small VosAerospace Communications satellite, mission code VacSAT 4
• Both Stages are lengthened, allowing more Delta-V in the second stage.
GENERAL INFO
- Predecessor: iCon 4 Launch Vehicle
- Created On: iOS
- Game Version: 0.9.509.0
- Price: $288,456k
- Number of Parts: 236
- Dimensions: 171 m x 26 m x 20 m
PERFORMANCE
- Total Delta V: 5.6km/s
- Total Thrust: 62.2MN
- Engines: 8
- Wet Mass: 9.57E+6kg
- Dry Mass: 5.25E+6kg
STAGES
| Stage | Engines | Delta V | Thrust | Burn | Mass |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 641m/s | 44.4MN | 6.5m | 9.57E+6kg |
| 5 | 1 | 4.9km/s | 17.7MN | 59s | 4.34E+5kg |
@TestRunner lol so it seems
@VosAerospace thankyouvurymuch!
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@kittman congrats on 1K
@VosAerospace ye
@Freeskyaerospace could be prismatic- if anything the metal could be bismuth or something
@VosAerospace aw man I get it, follow your dreams be what you want to be
That's cliche I know, but it is actually good advice
@VosAerospace prismatic?
@Freeskyaerospace partly because my ADHD couldn’t keep up
@Freeskyaerospace i was gonna go with colors. and i’d say foxtrot is iridescent if it is in fact colors.
@VosAerospace oh boy, why not both orbital mechanics or aerospace engineering? It's hard but you'll be a super genius for the rest of your life if you do a double major
How do the ranks go? From least to greatest?
Here is my guess
Ummm white
Lead
Uranium
Cobalt
Silver
Gold
Whatever foxtrot is
Does it have to be a type of metal?
@Freeskyaerospace nah i think platinum is next not sure though - people call them diff things
I thought that was platinum but ok!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
@Freeskyaerospace by the way, just hit 18k. just 16 upvotes away from being the #1 silver ranked player on the sr2 website
@Freeskyaerospace nope. i’m a high schooler on a political science/journalism track that just takes a ton of interest in aerospace and aviation (i have my pilots license). I’m debating whether i’m going to get a degree in orbital mechanics or aerospace engineering though
@VosAerospace yeah you're very good at chem, is that your focus in school?
@Freeskyaerospace It could in theory work with the right solution
@Freeskyaerospace I’d have to map out the equations - I’ll get back to you
@VosAerospace like what, alcohol? What would work? You're good at this stuff, would it work?
@Freeskyaerospace There are ways around the temperature problem, like super-chilling the methane and oxygen. As for the combustion instability, you just have to suspend the solution in another chemical liquid that could bind the whole thing together.
@VosAerospace plus their storage temperatures, hydrogen must be cooled so much more than methane and LOX. Also they probably don't combine very well. I'm not a chemist, but I know that that 4 hydrogens around the carbon give it a full valence shell. And an extra one would be rejected. So there would also be combustion inconsistency.
@Freeskyaerospace exactly. The other issue is that to get the pure stuff, the process would make it impossible to make a hybrid of H2 and CH4 for use as rocket fuel without just making the solution afterwards
@VosAerospace yeah because the stuff that comes from there depends on the place, you could get super pure methane one place and hydrogen in the other place
@Freeskyaerospace its tough to say though
@VosAerospace yeah