r/simplerockets

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Fully 100% Reusable Rocket Test

Ooooo fully 100% reusable rocket?! 👀👀👀 no fake fake fakeee (literally took me 8 whole hours just to finally work this thing together so that i could fully reuse it even tho it costs me $4B+ in career sighhh.. but hey it works tho!:3)

u/RXVZ_33 — 1 day ago

A NEW DAY IT IS!

THE IMAGE

Here you see quick snap shots of a new design compared to a human/drood and my first operational Micro Lift Rocket “Maya” C-S LV (Cube-sat Launch Vehicle). This is my new rockets upper stage and fairing assembly showcasing detail work and texturing.

THE PLAN

Following the success of Maya CS which is fully autonomous to LEO 3 stage 15 meters tall rocket with 45Kg payload capacity. I have came up with a bigger solution following pretty much the same design principle I used creating Maya, a cheap but reliable boosters and a capable orbital tugs to get that payload up into orbit in the most precise and practical way.

THE DESIGN

Similar to Maya C-S LV - I would follow a 3 stage rocket with the first 2 stages using a fixed powerful “SRBs” (Solid rocket boosters) and a liquid LOX/RP-1 upper stage to precisely do the final push to orbit and perform orbital maneuvers. Targeting a 2,000Kg payload capacity, it is capable of delivering most commercial satellites.

THE CHALLENGE

Designing Maya C-S LV comes with various challenges, to mention are non-gimbal motors and uncontrolled thrust so as heating issues punching through the atmosphere. Right now everything for Maya C-S LV is pretty much dialed in mostly after I coded events and active thrust and pitch management system. It’s launched at an optimal angle about 70-75 degrees, tuned the engines just right that it comes really fast and heats up just at the sweet spot that it leaves the atmosphere completely before everything glows red (this is what I meant with everything dialed in).

The new design would pretty much face the same challenges and some maybe completely the opposite of Maya C-S LV that requires a completely opposite solution from what I have already figured out in a small rocket to a much larger one that follows the same design principles.

u/Exciting-Frame7585 — 1 day ago

I'm so confused

Ok so here's what happens when I try to drive my rover on droo

1 my rover flips onto it's wheels so far so good

2 my rover starts bouncing around and then splodes before I've even touched anything

If someone has any explanation as to why this occurs (and even better how to fix it) that'd be much appreciated

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u/Consistent_Option771 — 2 days ago

Cannot control my rover

I was bored, so I quickly built something to go to Cylero. Everything was going well—I landed—but there was a design flaw: Unassigned was sitting in a seat on my rover. It wasn’t a problem; he was going to be there anyway. I had him get out on reflex, then I deactivated the Docking Port. The rover landed without a problem, but now that I’m trying to get back in, I can’t control it anymore, even though there was no problem when he was on the rocket. Why? Should I have used a different way to control him? Should I never have had him get out?

u/AnyHighway1028 — 4 days ago

Is there any way we can transmit what the camera see to MFD?

I would like to have the astronauts POV when docking, is there a way I can display on the MFD what the camera sees outside?

and if yes, is it possible I can display something on top of it?

I am thinking maybe a cross and a display of distance, velocity etc.

it qould be cool to dock with that POV

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u/J_inanutshell — 7 days ago

Hehehehe

Just watch this is vanilla career no mods cheats or anything at all. This also tricks the game into giving you the science for going on mountain and getting high on terrain (sounds weird lmao) also give land speed too. Those happen at 10x speed. The clip is in realtime.

I love this game

u/Tiny-Page-6249 — 8 days ago

What happening to my satelite RCS?

Can someone explain what happening with RCS?

I cant lock in prograde or retrograde becose RCS is not working.

u/CreepyZombie3398 — 10 days ago

Impractical but it looks cool

This is my under development 3-stage light space launch / cube sat platform for RSS inspired by Jaxa SS550 - 1st and 2nd stage are pure solid propellant and since solid motor cannot be vectored for direction control and do a gravity turn. I created this (idk what its called) kind of a launching system using small solid motors timed to actively launch this rocket at an angle instead of using a traditional angled launch rail.

It will punch through the atmosphere for an apogee of around 120-200km - let it coast till about 1 minute till apogee before activating 2nd stage to increase horizontal velocity. The final push and precise orbital corrections are provided by the 3rd stage small LOX/RP-1 engine.

IT CANT REACH ORBIT YET, BUT I SAW POTENTIAL. I’m working on it still.

u/Exciting-Frame7585 — 11 days ago