APDS-03 Dropship Spaceplane with Rover

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The APDS-03 (All Purpose Drop Ship) was designed to fill the gap in surveying and delivering payloads in the colonization process. It features custom, heavy-duty landing gear and VTOL capabilities to drop into any environment and deploy varieties of payload, whether it be deployable settlements or rovers. This is not a long-range vehicle, you will depend on a transfer vehicle to do interplanetary/interstellar work. It's capabilities do not go much farther than orbit to surface or orbit to moon.

Main propulsion is two liquid ammonia powered gas core rockets, with jets for atmospheric ascent. 40 micro gas core rockets provide the thrust needed for VTOL. VTOL rockets are action grouped in clusters so they may be selectively toggled based on surface gravity.

Use slider 1 to control the deploy state of the landing gear. Fully deployed is about +30-40%, and fully retracted is -100%. Once the gear is safely in the bays, use action group 8 to close the gear bay doors. When deploying the gear, make sure to open the bay doors first then use slider 1 to deploy to +40%. If you do not open the bay doors before using slider 1, the craft will explode.

Seats 6 astronauts, see cargo bay at the nose of the craft to access the cockpit.

This is revision 4, more is to come.