I had a lot of fun with this one. After Doing the Zenit satellite i figured I might as well do a ground up build of Vostok.
Though it looks unconventional to western eyes, this design went on to become the foundation for the most flown spacecraft in history and retains a wonderful post modern, almost pulp fiction sci-fi esthetic that I attempted to capture.
Because of the secretive nature of the Soviet space program, contemporary resources are quite scarce save for photos of modern musium examples which all very to great extent so complete accuracy is almost impossible but I'm happy with the result.

Rocket and craft fly well and low orbit can be comfortably achieved if not pushed too hard.

Launch at 75 persent power and once past 60km altitude, throttle down to around 50 percent and wait for apoapsis then feather the power to get to a nice circular orbit. (or just use the standard burn, coast, curn method).

Orbital manouvering/reto fire must be done manually as the craft is only powered by RCS thrusters.
Slider 1 operates the radiator vanes
Slider 2 disconnects the capsul restraining straps (NOTE: activate slider 2 BEFORE staging the mechanical/service module!)
Slider 3 deploys the antennae.

Have fun.

If I can get an ejection seat to work, I'll post an updated version.

GENERAL INFO

  • Created On: Mac
  • Game Version: 0.9.802.0
  • Price: $12,355k
  • Number of Parts: 827
  • Dimensions: 34 m x 6 m x 6 m

PERFORMANCE

  • Total Delta V: 3.7km/s
  • Total Thrust: 6.3MN
  • Engines: 41
  • Wet Mass: 1.34E+5kg
  • Dry Mass: 20,302kg

STAGES

Stage Engines Delta V Thrust Burn Mass
1 32 3.2km/s 3.1MN 1.7m 1.34E+5kg
2 0 0m/s 0N 0s 58,344kg
4 5 435m/s 144kN 2.7m 58,344kg

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