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Forum Thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/74395-Lopac-Lifter-Family
A lifter family consisting of as few as possible parts.
Download on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i1lsls10rjnx9zk/_0aPvkoS-b
Goodies:
- 75 km target orbit
- Payloads capacities of 10, 20, 40, 80, 120, 180, 240, 320 400 and 520 ton
- Very forgiving on non-optimal ascent profiles because of large fuel supply
- Enough fuel to deorbit final propellant stage for a debris free orbit
- MechJeb compatible (75 km, 10km, 75km, 0°, 40%)
The reason for designing this new lifter family is that my Tangent Lifter Family does not scale well beyond 180 ton payloads because it uses a lot of parts. So I intended to create lifters of much higher payload capacities but this is not possible within the Tangent series.
And with the arrival of 0.23.5 it is the ideal time to build new lifters.
| Name | Payload 75km | Parts | Stages |
| Lopac 01 | 10 | 10 | 2 |
| Lopac 02 | 20 | 15 | 2 |
| Lopac 04 | 40 | 22 | 2 |
| Lopac 08 | 80 | 37 | 2 |
| Lopac 12 | 120 | 57 | 3 |
| Lopac 18 | 180 | 60 | 3 |
| Lopac 24 | 240 | 77 | 4 |
| Lopac 32 | 320 | 96 | 5 |
| Lopac 40 | 400 | 127 | 6 |
| Lopac 52 | 520 | 163 | 7 |
Changelog
V0.1: Initial Version
V0.2: Added Lopac 12, 18 and 24
V0.3: Update to 0.23.5, got rid of Launchprad problems, reduced partcount
V0.4: Added Lopac 32 and 40
V0.5: Added Lopac 52
V0.6: Removed non-stock parts (thanks to galimare)
V0.7: Reduced partcount in Lopac 52
V0.8: Staging Bugfix in Lopac 52
V0.9: Added subassemblies, minor tweaks
V0.10: Overhaul for KSP 0.24.2, improved design
V0.11: Compatibility fix for KSP 0.90.0