They'll be similar to the freighters but have big crew cabins instead of cargo space. I'll probably go for some wing for steering but parachutes for a safe final landing. My plan is to integrate it to a second stage. I really need to get a Kerballed mining base so refuels don't take months. The idea is that the initial small miner can then refuel a bigger miner in lunar orbit before it lands. These might not be strictly necessary, a refuelled upper stage could do the job, but the freighters are cooler.Ī preliminary autonomous miner on the Moon. Interplanetary freighters, to take payloads from LEO to other orbits. I'll probably do the same around other bodies. In LEO there's one with artificial gravity (by spinning) for Kerbals, one with lots of fuel storage. The upper stages can either re-enter and parachute land or be retained on-orbit and refuelled. The first stage engines splashdown on parachutes, but the tanks get discarded. Swap crews, refuel and refurbish, and the same ships are off to explore other destinations. The space program essentially becomes a system- wide transportation network to move Kerbals and experiments from the KSC to any of the planets and home again. Once the whole system is in place, everything is reusable. Interplanetary vessels are assembled in orbit from modular chunks sent up aboard disposable rockets. Crews and fuel are sent to LKO aboard space planes. I follow the Von Braun STS infrastructure concept, and it works really well for me in KSP. Have any tips, do you have your own way of doing this? Let us know!

Do this untill you have send at least 1 module/ITS on almost every planet, for later use. Have mining bases and gateways on pretty much any body that you can easily reachable. Make it so that the ITS can carry a modulair version of pretty much everything, in order to make mining bases and space gateway. Have ITS like spacecraft, that instead of doing 1 mission per launch, stays in space and does missions until it becomes unusable, it also has to refuel sometimes. So i have played KSP for a long time now, and i think its finally time to build a space empire! But how?

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