Stormworks: Build and Rescue

Stormworks: Build and Rescue

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Roton Rotary Rocket
   
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Roton Rotary Rocket

Description
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Description
Nope, your eyes are not deceiving you. This really is a traffic cone shaped single stage to orbit rocket with a massive coaxial helicopter on top. And it was real to! In 1996 the Rotary Rocket Company was founded to create this vehicle, known as Roton! Unfortunately in 2001 the company closed for good, but not before Scale Composites actually built and flew a full scale prototype! It currently lives near its original hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
In real life Roton uses tip jets for its rotor, but this one uses coaxial rotors since tip jets aren't currently in the game.

The Numbers
Diameter at base: 7.25m (rotor is 13.25m diameter in hitbox)
height: 20.75m
crew capacity: 2
cargo to 200km orbit: 3200 mass

Startup Procedure (super easy)
1) Climb into the crew compartment (button is on hatch)
2) throttle up to 50%
3) activate engine pressurisation pumps by pressing the key to your right
4) flip on the "rocket mode" switch to take flight!!
5) only when coming home, press the "helicopter mode" key to activate the rotor. It controls like a normal helicopter.

Features
mostly full interior
room for lots of crew with designated cabins
a big payload bay that can be controlled from the crew compartment.
It can hold payloads 3m x 3.25m in size that weight 3200 mass
Helicopter/ rocket mode
solar power
it is 100% reusable
airlock to access payload bay
4 space suits for a crew of 2


Credits
rotor microcontroller: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2395007026&searchtext=ze+coaxial
rcs microcontroller: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3050094254&searchtext=rcs
101 Comments
Trombone1 6 Jun @ 12:18pm 
what goes into the cargo?
thexboxpc1 6 May @ 11:39am 
no very much possible
Lord of Death 6 May @ 11:07am 
so impossible ok
thexboxpc1 6 May @ 4:28am 
with w,a,s,d :)
Lord of Death 5 May @ 10:04am 
How do you steer this thing :cartel_roflmao:
Thecreative8 27 Apr @ 7:44am 
@larryjacksonlaw use either one of the two launchpads (one is near o'neil and the other i think industrial island), or use the mission editor to spawn it in.
larryjacksonlaw 22 Apr @ 3:21pm 
dont know how to spawn not in addons and i cant spawn it in hangar PLS HELP
M109A3 Howitzer 21 Mar @ 11:56pm 
hARD TO FLY
Dogfoster 7 Jan @ 2:54pm 
How do i get it to not spin out?
JofReddy  [author] 19 Dec, 2024 @ 6:39am 
Use the other one