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Starbase

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Just call me kid: In my Workshop, there is a craft called "Kerbin Starbase" which is this craft with a launcher to LKO. You can modify the launcher for other destinations.

Thanks.

how am i suppose to lanch
it to space

Thanks for the ideas.

Thanks for the tip LawrenceWolf. I find that running too many mods on my computer makes my game really buggy, so I try and keep them to a minimum. And I haven't had any problems using stock struts to keep things solid.

You should be able to get around the connections issue by using whatever mod adds the construction ports, and having those set to a button that will weld them together,making it all a single connected piece. I use it myself when I am making something connect to more than 1 point.

The short answer is trial and error, part clipping, and struts.

The center of the structure is a six-sided connector node. I built one arm ending in the large docking port and used four-way radial symmetry to attach the curved sections. For the top ad bottom arms, I added small dcking ports to the end of each curved section. WIth all six arms in place, the three-way intersections each had the small docking port at the center. When things didn't line up just the way I wanted, I broke it all down back to the main arm structure and tweaked it until everything looked good when assembled.

Finally, I added struts at all the places where the six arm structures clipped. I think of struts as welding points.

I designed the station as a single-launch craft and never intended the structure to separate into individual components once in oribt, which is why I didn't use docking ports as connectors.

but the structure connects to itself at multiple points, how did you make these connectons?

I built it as a single structure in the VAB and added a lauch vehicle. It's a single-launch station.

how do you connect the different arms? i usualy build these things with multiple docking ports as conectors.