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V-Class Transport Shuttle (ITF_B1-T7.4-V1)

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Description:

The ITF_B1-T7.4-V1 V-Class Transport Shuttle produced by ITF-Driveyards is a civilian transport ship that is designed for planet-space transit. With the ship being an Atmo/Ion-Hybrid, it uses renewable energy by only having batteries as powersource onboard. If it runs out of power, it can be recharged by a small reactor that is located behind the front camera.
The shuttle can transport 1 person to orbit and offers a small storage for personal belongins. A total mass of 40 tons makes this shuttle an ultralight vessel with the ability to land and launch from every planet.
An onboard Antenna, 3 remote controls and 2 timer blocks enable a fully automated flight mode on the shuttle, so that only one click is needed to get from an earth base to a moon base.
Great maneuverability and interplanetary flight capabilities offer a lot of fun while doing risky maneuvers.
A projector repair system allows a quick repair if ever needed.
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Summary:
The ITF_B1-T7.4-V1 V-Class Transport Shuttle is a small and fast craft suited for any kind of interplanetary transit. Its cheap and compact design offer an easy and fast production. With two gatling guns this ship can defend itself from drones and attack other small crafts, although not recommended. The vessel has a small cargo storage and has good scouting capabilities if repainted. This Ship was especially designed for fully automated interplanetary transit with an easy setup.

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Technical Data:

Power:
- 3 large batteries
- 10 small batteries

Life Support:
- 1 oxygen tank
- 1 air vents to suck air in

Cargo and Production:
- cockpit storage
- 1 bottom connector

Communication Systems:
- 1 Antenna
- 1 Ore Detector
- 3 Remote Control (2 facing forward, 1 facing down)

Defense Systems:
- 2 gatling guns

Other Systems:
- 1 projector
- 2 gyroscopes
- 2 timer blocks
- 1 sound block

Measurements:
Length: 21 small blocks
Width: 13 small blocks
Height: 6 small blocks
Weight: ~40 tons
PCU: ~3000
Maximum Weight: ~45 tons
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Tipps and Tricks:

Projector repair system:
The Shuttle features an onboard projector that functions as self repair system. If the ship gets damaged, the projector will show missing blocks in the control panel aswell as visually. All you need to repair the damage are spare parts and a welder.

Interplanetary flight:
With the B1-T7.4-V1 V-Class Transport Shuttle being an Atmo/Ion-Hybrid it shares the typical stereotype of these Hybrids: The atmospheric thruster have the most thrust facing down and the ion thrusters have the most thrust facing back. This means that if you want to launch from a planet, you have to fly up horizontally until you reach the point when the atmospheric thrusters lose their power and the speed is falling. At this point, slowly tilt the ship up vertical and let the large ion engines get you into space.

Scriptless Planet to Moon Transit fully automated:

Idea:

Flying an Atmo/Ion-Hybrid in natural gravitiy environments by autopilot isn't an easy task to solve.
Firstoff, when using autopilot in natural gravity you should always set your remote control to the forward direction "forward". In natural gravity the directions forward, backward, right and left will always keep the ship horizontally and the directions down and up just mess up completely and tilt the ship up sideways.
For an Atmo/Ion-Hybrid it is crucial to tilt the ship up when you start loosing speed at about 7 km to 10 km above ground in gravity, to let the Ion engines at the back do their work. With the remote control being incapable to tilt the ship up in natural gravity there has to be another solution. If you change to the autopilot of a downwards facing remote control set to forward direction "forward", the ship will tilt up vertical and the Ion engines get you to space. At the end of natural gravity you just need to change back autopilot to your normal facing remote control.

Setting it up:

The first step consists of flying the route you want to automate.
While doing that you have to create several gps markers:
- Planet Base
- End of planet gravity
- Beginning of space
- End of moon gravity
- Moon Base

-Starting at your planet bwase you create the first gps marker (I recommend slighly above the landing pad).
-From your base marker you fly straight up, try to stay as horizontal as possible, also start a timer immediatly before
flying straight up. When you start loosing speed, stop the timer when your at about 80 m/s while still horizontal. Write
that time down somewhere (usually between 0:30 and 1:30).
-Then tilt up and fly to the end of the planets gravity and stop there. Make sure that you are directly above the base
(distance to base marker somewhere between 42 km and 48 km).
-Create the "End of planet gravity" marker so that it is still in natural gravity (about 5 metres away from space) and
create the "Beginning of space" marker about 5 metres away from gravity (in space)
-Fly the route from "Beginning of space" to your moon base (directly above the moon base, don't enter gravity).
-Create "End of moon gravity" marker close to the border of space and gravity above your moon base (+/- 5 metres)
-Fly straight down to your moon base and create "Moon Base" marker above the landing pad

The second step is to setup the ships systems:
-Set all remote controls to oneway flight and facing forward, toggle off collision avoidance
-Set the remote controls F1 and F2 to precision mode (optional)
-Set up F1 waypoints: "Planet Base", then "Beginning of space", then "End of moon gravity" and at last "Moon Base"
-Set up action for "Planet Base" marker, choose "Timer 1" start
-Set up action for "Moon Base" marker, choose "Sound Block" play (optional)
-Set up Timer 1 delay to the time you measured for takeoff
-Set up Timer 1 actions to "F1 autopilot toggle off" and "D1 autopilot toggle on"
-Set up D1 waypoints: "End of planet gravity"
-Set up actions for "End of planet gravity" marker, choose "F1 autopilot toggle on" and "D1 autopilot toggle off"
-Set up F2 waypoints: "Moon Base", then "End of moon gravity", then "End of planet gravity" and at last "Planet Base"
-Set up action for "Planet Base" marker, choose "Sound Block" play (optional)

Last steps:
To start Planet-Moon transit you just have to toggle on F1 autopilot or F2 autopilot, depending on where you are (second toolbar). F1 remote control is programmed for the flight from planet to moon and F2 remote control is programmed for the flight from moon to planet.
Unfortunatly this system doesn't allow to auto connect to a connector, because F1 and F2 aren't located directly above the bottom connector.
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Last Words:
Hey guys,

I hope you will have fun with this build. If you notice anything wrong about the ship or the workshop page, let me know in the comments.

If you have any other questions about the build, feel free to ask.
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