BR-MH-1 Horizon Medium Lift

@RosmonosAerospace no worries. I managed to crash into the lunar surface which destroyed the lower half of the space station, which allowed it to land on its side. Don’t add a fourth stage; that’s a sure way to reduce efficiency. You should instead extend the solar panels away from the body so clipping bugs stop occurring.

@TopSecret2 the third stage of the rocket does not separate from the rest of the rocket. The interstage on the second stage is entirely cosmetic. I am starting a version of the rocket that will include your idea of a more efficent rocket. Thank you for leaving feed back, it is always very appreciated.

Update: after doing that and attempting, not only did I get into a 100km orbit on Luna, but with the fake third stage (which doesn’t separate with the interstage for some reason) and landed with the apparent fourth stage by lithobraking (ie. Controlled crash that destroyed the third stage)

One suggestion regarding this rocket: instead of firing all engines at once on the ground, only fire the center liquid engine and the solids (sort of a Titan-Atlas approach, half staging the first stage and the solids represent the zeroeth stage), and then firing all the liquid rockets when the solid rockets burn out. That should improve the delta-V of this rocket tremendously enough to get a lunar orbit, albeit the TWR is quite low.