Rocket Overview
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2023 December patch overhauled the rocket system. Instances of the old modular rocket disappeared when loading old saves.
The new system is even more modular that the old system. Under the old system you started with an engine and fuel tanks, and then added mining and storage modules and capped it off with a control nose cone.
The new system still has a vertical stack, but you have to arrange discrete components like fuel tanks, wiring, chutes, and pipes inside a grid within the rocket.
Before you even get started, you will need to make a Rocket Manufactory.
Contents
Building the Base Station
You need a Computer with a Rocket Control Motherboard attached to a Logic Uplink tuned to the downlink component on the rocket.
A Launch Mount must be built on a set of 4 (steel or iron) frames.
Add enough Launch Tower parts to support umbilicals corresponding to each of your umbilical sockets (Power, Gas|Liquid, Chute). Leave 2 metres between the rocket and the tower so the umbilicals have room. Warning: retract your umbilicals before launching.
Building the Rocket
Propulsion system
- Engine Mount. This must be built on the Launch Mount.
- Some kind of engine: Pressure Fed Gas Engine, Pumped Gas Engine, Pressure Fed Liquid Engine or Pumped Liquid Engine
- One or more Fuselages for fuel tanks
- One or more fuel tanks matching your engine: Gas Capsule Tank Small, Gas Capsule Tank Medium, Liquid Capsule Tank Small or Liquid Capsule Tank Medium
- Umbilical Socket (Gas) or Umbilical Socket (Liquid) depending on your engine
- Kit (Pipe) or Kit (Insulated Pipe) for connecting the fuel tanks and engine
Gas-fuelled rockets use a 2:1 Volatiles:Oxygen mixture. You can fit about 30,000 moles of gas in a medium capsule tank.
Power payload system
- One or more Fuselages
- One or more Auxiliary Rocket Battery or Battery (Medium)
- Umbilical Socket (Power)
Scanning payload system
In order to map space you will need a rocket with the following:
- One or more Fuselages
- Rocket Scanner
- Rocket Scanner Head (this is a consumable)
You do not need to put these on the same rocket as your mining equipment. Keeping them separate will allow you to map and mine separately.
Mining payload system
- One or more Fuselages
- Umbilical Socket (Chute)
- Rocket Miner
- One of seven different drill heads for the Rocket Miner: Mining-Drill Head (Basic), Mining-Drill Head (Durable), Mining-Drill Head (High Speed Ice), Mining-Drill Head (High Speed Mineral), Mining-Drill Head (Ice), Mining-Drill Head (Long Term), Mining-Drill Head (Mineral). This is a consumable item.
- One or more Cargo Storage (Small) or Cargo Storage (Medium)
Use Chutes to connect your miner to the storage and the storage to the umbilical socket.
Guidance system
- Logic Rocket Downlink
- Rocket Avionics (must be built or the rocket will not even show up on the computer)
Rocket top
- Fairing on the top
Note
Important: You do not have to build all of the systems from scratch and/or separately: you can combine parts of the payload and guidance system into the same Fuselages to optimize and keep the rocket as small as possible.
