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Ion cargoship

==> PURE stock, no DLC <==
this is a 119 ton ION powered cargoship
I built this because i wanted to build a different kind of cargoship since i dont think that there are many ion powered cargoships on the workshop.

ship stats:
parts: 294
length: 38.1m
height: 15.1m (with solar arrays)
width: 11.3m
propulsion: 61 ION engine
mass: 119.555 tons
docking ports: 5 medium, 4 small in a line, 2 large on the sides
burntime: 9200 seconds (2.5 HOURS!!!)
Fuel capacity: 264k Xenon gas, 42k electric charge
crew capacity: 14, including 2 pilot
comm range: 200Gm

stats with no cargo (with 20 tons)
Delta V: 10km/s (8.3km/s)
TWR: 0.10 (0.09)
cost: 1,978,428.0 funds. almost 2 million! BUT the craft shouldnt need to be relaunched as empty fuel tanks can be replaced with full ones (I have uploaded a launcher for the extra fuel tanks)

Actiongroups
1) toggle solar panels
2) unused
3) toggle the 61 ION engines
4) toggle the 32 fuel cells.
5) unused
6) Toggle fuel door

the special design allows the cargo to be attached pretty close to inline with the center of mass. also, the small docking ports are just far enough apart to dock 1.25m ships that have landing gear.
The fuel tanks can be replaced with the help of a tug. it has RCS, so it can dock to a larger station. also, i do not reccomend emptying any of the already filled lf/ox tanks as the 32 fuel cells need to be able to operate for near 7000 seconds straight

Also, you CAN remove the fuel and add panels/rtgs to increase delta V, but it may be slower.