Request Huge Cargo Ship

[Artymaster]

Im very new to this forum but i was wondering if it was possible to make a huge, about 17-20km long ship buy about 5-7km wide transport ship that has landing gear and can land on a planet.

Also if it has a big drop down ramp when it is landed and a gigantic cargo bay with lots of attachment points and docking points for cargo and other ships or vehicles.

If anyone can make this or help me make this type of ship that would be a great help

 

[T.Neo]

Cool idea.
I dunno about the size.
17-20km ships appear often in sc-fi and they don't land on planets.
Maybe and orbiting craft and a lander, that is smaller, about 700 meters long (still pretty big though).

 

[Artymaster]

when i thought of it, i thought "why should it be like other sci-fi"
it would be ok if there was a big landing ship but i would prefer the ship itself to land

 

[Linguofreak]

In Orbiter, or in reality?

In Orbiter, yes. It should be fairly easy to make a mesh of even several hundred km long, just as you would for a ship only a few meters long. The process doesn't really change with size. You just have to scale the numbers right.

In reality, never.

 

[T.Neo]

What is so unrealistic about a 17-20km spaceship, Linguofreak?
Landing, well, that I can understand.

 

[Artymaster]

In orbiter, ok about the size but what about the drop down cargo ramp and bay with lots of attachment points?

 

[Linguofreak]

What is so unrealistic about a 17-20km spaceship, Linguofreak?
Landing, well, that I can understand.

As long as it stays in space, mostly just the economics. Why do you *need* a ship of that size, and for what jobs does it outperform a fleet of 300 meter ships that total up to the same cost? Also, how long does it take to *build* such a monstrosity?

If it lands, then you can imagine the problems as well as I can: Landing gear pulverizing bedrock to gravel, Engines melting the rock before the landing gear gets a chance to pulverize it, the whole thing folding in on itself from its own weight, etc.

 

[Artymaster]

Its not going to be ultra realistic, i realize about the landing problems but it would be for interplanetary transport earth to moon and such, i have never built anything but i am reading up on tutorials, i wanted to know if anyone could do this for me or help me with this big project.

 

[T.Neo]

As long as it stays in space, mostly just the economics. Why do you *need* a ship of that size, and for what jobs does it outperform a fleet of 300 meter ships that total up to the same cost? Also, how long does it take to *build* such a monstrosity?

If it lands, then you can imagine the problems as well as I can: Landing gear pulverizing bedrock to gravel, Engines melting the rock before the landing gear gets a chance to pulverize it, the whole thing folding in on itself from its own weight, etc.

Sure.
And when it doesn't even happen in sc-fi, then you know something is seriously unrealistic.

 

[willy88]

Don't forget what would happen if it happened to enter Earths atmosphere...and didn't "land" properly... :suicide:

 

[Artymaster]

in sci-fi when you see huge ships land, they use invisble hovers that cause no damage to the earth at all. That is what i was thinking of when landing

 

[T.Neo]

Without a .dll, you won't be able to simulate invisible antigravity.

This is a cool idea, but I'd have to agree with Linguofreak here, that a fleet of smaller ships, could do just as good a job.

Maybe 1 km length?

 

[Artymaster]

a fleet of ships, each having to take off and land, load cargo and land on the moon or other planet and unload.

That would be time consuming what if the ship didnt land but stayed in orbit and used some smaller ships to deliver cargo to it?

I have never seen a cargo ship big enough for moving with enough cargo without going back and forth a couple times

 

[Sky Captain]

That would be cool, watching a 20 km ship approaching it`s landing site from the ground certainly would give Independence Day movie style feeling, but you certainly need anti gravity engines for hovering or your ship will turn it`s landing site into pool of magma.

 

[Artymaster]

What if the ship landed on a massive field next to cape canaveral made of heat resistant metal or ceramic or something of that nature

if someone built something like that, the ship would be possible

 

[joiz]

what if it landed in water?

 

[Artymaster]

a layer of water to cool down the earth or metal it lands on that would be good to but i dont think theres a way to simulate that.

But im a bit confused on how to make anything currently, and wondering if anyone can make this for me?

 

[Hielor]

what if it landed in water?

Because water is totally immune to heat, mirite? (hint: no.)

You'd end up with a whole lot of steam and a lot of dead marine animals.

 

[Artymaster]

i did not mean a lake, but water would cool it down not stop the heat, and my original idea was some kind of sci-fi metal or ceramic that is immune to heat.

Can anyone build this for me, the ship or the ceramic or metal platform, a big big big square able to accomidate the ship stated in the first post

 

[RisingFury]

As long as it stays in space, mostly just the economics. Why do you *need* a ship of that size, and for what jobs does it outperform a fleet of 300 meter ships that total up to the same cost? Also, how long does it take to *build* such a monstrosity?

If it lands, then you can imagine the problems as well as I can: Landing gear pulverizing bedrock to gravel, Engines melting the rock before the landing gear gets a chance to pulverize it, the whole thing folding in on itself from its own weight, etc.

Just imagine aerobreaking! The brightness of the light and the heat would dwarf that of the Sun (as seen from Earth) and would probably dry up and ignite vegetation.

To slow down such a huge mass, you're probably need to do a full orbit inside of Earth's atmosphere.

If your landing computer has Windows on it and crashes during reentry, you'd slam into Earth like a huge asteroid and probably cause some major problems for life on Earth