GDLV5 rocket takes off for the first time

Year 16, Day 288

Having entered the space industry as a private company, the newly founded space organization SpaceK recently unveiled its new payload rocket, the GDLV5 (Generally Designed Launch Vehicle 5), in cooperation with KSA and C7 Aerospace Division!

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The GDLV5 rocket was designed to carry MULTIPLE payloads to LKO (Low Kerbin Orbit) as well as being able to carry one small payload to geostationary orbit if needed. This is new, because we have had rockets that can carry multiple payloads to orbit before, but not this many! This rocket can carry up to 8 small KubeSat satellites into LKO. Rockets before this could only carry about a maximum of 4 of those same satellites.

On top of this, the rocket is HUGE, standing about half the height of the Vehicle Assembly Building. It's essentially a flying building.

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It recently had its first test flight, which went super well, and just after that, it had its first true deployment mission, where it deployed 6 KubeSat satellites into LKO, allowing them to unfurl their solar panels and all transmit data back to Kerbin.

It's likely that this is just the start of the GDLV5 saga, and this rocket will likely continue to be improved upon and expanded and introduced to more opportunities than any rocket ever has before.