To replicate color scheme, set Europa Detail, Solar Cell, and Brushed Heavy Metal (gold, dark blue, and dark red) to 75% smoothness, 90% metallic
Atalanta Medium-Lift Vehicle (Block II Upgrade) - an automated, partially re-usable rocket for fulfilling GNSS Sat missions. This rocket provides automated fulfillment of medium lift (2t - 20t by NASA classification) payloads for the endless stream of "place thing in orbit" missions.
You can easily make several billion dollars/hour with this, and you don't even have to think that hard. You're welcome :D
Block II Upgrades:
- Reduced price to below $50M and weight below 200t, wihout sacrificing performance
- $19M launch cost to place a GNSS satellite in a prograde orbit, after recovery savings (decreased recovery for highly inclined/retrograde orbits)
- Revised recovery protocol - instead of 6 large parachutes, it now uses just 1 smaller parachute and a brief landing burn
Features:
- Designed to fit in the size constraints and be used from Ali Pad
- 2-stage Hydrolox design for reduced weight and cost
- Low part count and simplified design
- Reusable 1st stage
- 3000 m/s delta-V remaining after placing a 14.8t payload (GNSS Sat) in low parking orbit (90 x 140)
GENERAL INFO
- Created On: Windows
- Game Version: 1.0.909.1
- Price: $48,698k
- Number of Parts: 20
- Dimensions: 43 m x 7 m x 7 m
PERFORMANCE
- Total Delta V: 11.5km/s
- Total Thrust: 4.8MN
- Engines: 2
- Wet Mass: 1.98E+5kg
- Dry Mass: 35,184kg
STAGES
| Stage | Engines | Delta V | Thrust | Burn | Mass |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 4.1km/s | 3.7MN | 2.3m | 1.98E+5kg |
| 3 | 1 | 7.4km/s | 1.1MN | 2.9m | 50,824kg |
The Vizzy program will launch at an inclination set by you and place the payload in a stable 90km x 140km parking orbit. After 1st stage separation, the spent first stage will perform a short backburn to deorbit. The program drops the time scale to Normal at first stage separation to ensure it retains a consistent amount of fuel for landing after completing the deorbit burn (sometimes physics during fast forward can get a little funky if you need something timed precisely). You can resume fast forward after the deorbit burn (about 15 seconds) without negative impact.
No need to push any buttons - the program will automatically switch back to the first stage after placing the payload in a stable orbit. It's not my finest piece of Vizzy coding, but it works. The first stage doesn't do anything fancy like fly back to the pad - it just falls in the drink for recovery.
The program uses several proxies to approximate various physics modeling that I'm either too lazy or too dumb to calculate out, so no guarantees that it will perform to spec anywhere outside of Ali Pad, or with a payload outside Medium Lift parameters (2t - 20t)