#Will this space shuttle make it to orbit
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Hard to tell by the photo. No staging information and no TWR information. Your launch button only shows 1,022 m/s deltaV which does not seem enough to get to 70km altitude, plus secondary burn to establish a stable circular orbit. You want center of thrust to be between the liquid fuel tank and the SSTO orbiter. If you are only launch with the SSRBs your thrust will rotate your vehicle to the right (pitch the SSTO up). The real space shuttle launched with both SSRBs and the Orbiters engines to counter act this rotation. Also the orbiters engines are at a slight angle, not completely parallel with the orbiters long axis to assist with this issue. Hope this helps a bit.
I suggest you just launch it and find out for yourself
you can always just revert to launch
the delta V is because of my fuel lines not being connected correctly, and ive tried launching different variants of this space shuttle maybe 20 times with 1 successful with no payload, also i am launching with all engines on