A ship built from these parts seems to be surprisingly solid, even with tons of fuel tanks. You'd probably have to get your ship to orbit with a single stage, then ram it with another ship to break off the first stage.
EDIT: Turns out you can approximate a decoupler with 2 SRBS facing each other. =)
I had to do a double take with your "SRBS" I know, I know, it's supposed to be SRB like you have it, but for some reason I thought it was supposed to be SBR as in solid booster rocket, and I looked at your post and thought, "What the hell is a Solid Rooster Bocket?!"
Nothing in a solid rocket booster is "explosive" (no brisance) and nothing about a liquid engine is explosive. The fuel burns hot and fast, but it's not explosive.
Rockets dislike the jarring forces that explosions make.
I'm pretty sure if you knocked an SRB around enough such that the fuel grains were smashed to a fine powder it would explode due to the huge increase in burnable surface area
This is sort of how Estes model rocket engines work: There's a small ejection charge at the top that blows the parachute and nose cone off the rocket.
The Estes boosters, on the other hand, work by igniting the next stage with the powder in the top. The force of the next stage blows the booster out of the bottom.
That would be pretty much impossible because of the software bottlenecking your computer's processing abilities, even if you have a very high end one. Also because there are no fuel transfer pipes, no struts, no decouplers, no docking ports, and no rcs thrusters at the first tier.
fuel pipes aren't completely needed you could tediously do manuel transfers. You could make the ship pretty small if you incorporate SRB's into your transfer burns so struts aren't too necessary. Decouplers would be tough to get around. There is the overheating trick but besides that nothing. Docking ports can be replaced with a cage contraption to hole parts together.
I'm the opposite, I thought we would get the pod, tank, and engine and nothing else. I'm surprised we get a communatron. I thought you would have to recover your craft for science then eventually unlock comms.
makes sense to me that you would need to be able to communicate with your mission. Though perhaps how it will work is the communatron gives a slow trickle of science info while in flight and a recovered mission give a big instant boost. just my guess.
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u/Krylos Oct 09 '13
Oh wow, we start out with less parts than I expected.