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The '''S3 KS-25x4 "Mammoth" Liquid Fuel Engine''' is a [[liquid fuel engine]] with four nozzles. This is the engine with the highest thrust and, compared to the thrust, high specific impulse. It doesn't allow placing additional stages beneath the engine cluster. This is the second liquid fuelled engine after the [[R.A.P.I.E.R. Engine]] which uses multiple nozzles.
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The '''S3 KS-25x4 "Mammoth" Liquid Fuel Engine''' is a [[liquid fuel engine]] with four nozzles. It is currently the most expensive part and the most powerful engine available in the game. It has a relatively high specific impulse compared to other high-thrust engines. There are no attachment nodes for placing additional stages beneath the engine cluster. This is the second liquid fueled engine after the [[R.A.P.I.E.R. Engine]] which uses multiple nozzles. According to the part description. the engine is assembled from four [[S3 KS-25 "Vector" Liquid Fuel Engine]]s.
  
The ''KS-25'' might be a reference to the [[w:Space Shuttle Main Engine|Space Shuttle Main Engine]]s which are also named ''RS-25'', especially as it was introduced as a [[w:Space Launch System|Space Launch System]] component which uses four RS-25 engines.
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''KS-25'' is a reference to ''RS-25'', the official designation of the [[w:Space Shuttle Main Engine|Space Shuttle Main Engine]]s. The part, which uses four KS-25 engines, is inspired by the main engine component of the [[w:Space Launch System|Space Launch System]], which similarly uses four RS-25 engines. The part was introduced along with several other SLS-inspired parts.
 
 
It is the most expensive part in the game.
 
  
 
== Product description ==
 
== Product description ==

Revision as of 15:19, 13 November 2015

S3 KS-25x4 "Mammoth" Liquid Fuel Engine
Part image
Liquid fuel engine by
Kerbodyne

Radial size Extra large
Cost (total) 39 000.00 Funds
Mass (total) 15.00 t
Drag 0.2
Max. Temp. 2000 K
Volume  ?
Impact Tolerance 20 m/s
Research Tech tree very heavy rocketry.png Very Heavy Rocketry
Unlock cost 115 000 Funds
Since version 0.23.5
Part configuration part.cfg
Liquid fuel engine
Maximum thrust (1 atm) 3 746.03 kN
(vacuum) 4 000.00 kN
Isp (1 atm) 295 s
(vacuum) 315 s
Fuel consumption 258.98 Units of fuel/s


Thrust vectoring 2 °
Testing Environments
On the surface Yes
In the ocean Yes
On the launchpad Yes
In the atmosphere Yes
Sub orbital Yes
In an orbit Yes
On an escape Yes
Docked No
Test by staging Yes
Manually testable Yes

The S3 KS-25x4 "Mammoth" Liquid Fuel Engine is a liquid fuel engine with four nozzles. It is currently the most expensive part and the most powerful engine available in the game. It has a relatively high specific impulse compared to other high-thrust engines. There are no attachment nodes for placing additional stages beneath the engine cluster. This is the second liquid fueled engine after the R.A.P.I.E.R. Engine which uses multiple nozzles. According to the part description. the engine is assembled from four S3 KS-25 "Vector" Liquid Fuel Engines.

KS-25 is a reference to RS-25, the official designation of the Space Shuttle Main Engines. The part, which uses four KS-25 engines, is inspired by the main engine component of the Space Launch System, which similarly uses four RS-25 engines. The part was introduced along with several other SLS-inspired parts.

Product description

Kerbodyne engineers got fed up with having to contend with overly complicated staging arrays for lifting heavy payloads, and decided instead to just build a truly enormous engine of the highest efficiency. Strapping together four of Kerbodyne's KS-25 rocket motors in a single assembly, they created the largest rocket engine in production anywhere, and each KS-25 has the highest chamber pressure--the reason for four small nozzles and combustion chambers, not one big one (those kept going boom). It's certainly got the power to match its size, and although it excels in its main role as a first-stage engine, the lack of structural hardpoints on its underside makes it quite less suitable for other purposes. Its price tag also seems to match its size, in fact.

Kerbodyne

Changes

0.24
  • Cost increased from 5900 to 32400 (and made meaningful)
0.23.5
  • Initial release