Yukon0009

Apologies for the lack of updates, I've been busy with other things as of late. 004 Percheron F1, First flight of the new Percheron rocket

That cart is equal parts incredibly impressive and adorable, the kerbal towing it makes for a really funny scene. Your Apollo replicas must be the most high-fidelity replications out there, even most mods don't come with the kind of detail you've given to each mission; and I don't think anyone's actually replicated the Apollo 14 cart before so hats off to you.

Uploaded a Starship video.

I built a spaceplane.

Further Lunar Starship testing. The tanker Starship isn't fully functional yet, it's basically a Starship-shaped shell at the moment, but I made it so that it would be easy to convert into a functional ship.

Added a launch tower

Now has a working elevator courtesy of BG pistons.

003 Artume 1, first boots on Minmus

https://kerbalx.com/Yukon0009/TCS-1L-Lunar-CSM-Career-ship https://kerbalx.com/Yukon0009/TCL-1-Lander-Career-ship

WIP Lunar Starship

First kerbals on Minmus (in this save).

No, the default KerbNet will do.

Overview: The 7th Survey Squadron is an expeditionary unit tasked with the duty of general surveying, which includes everything from exploring Kerbin's uncharted waters to the furthest reaches of the Kerbol System. Its main facilities are at the equatorial Kerbal Space Center, and its rockets can launch from leased launch facilities at Woomerang Space Launch Center and Baikerbanur Launch Complex. Its unique status stems from its lineage as a formerly military-run endeavor, its mantle passed on to the various scientific organizations united together as one. The goal is to explore in detail all of the planets and moons within the Kerbol System, so that colonization and settlements can be built in the future. This mission report thread will not start at the beginning of the career save, because the early game stuff was just the usual suborbital missions, and I found those uninteresting. Also, this save is one I started much earlier, played up to early-mid tech tree and abandoned when I got bored of it, which is why it starts at that point in the tech tree. Mods: OPM, Spectra, Scatterer EditorExtensions, Mechjeb. Mission log 001 Launch Abort Test 002 TCS-O1 Orbital Flight Test

Awesome ships!

Made a poster-ish thing out of a screenshot

too ez uhhh idk just gonna tag the first person i remember @Dman979

The mission will also include a small coaxial-rotor helicopter, which is flown to the ship via remote control from the Island Airfield. Hastily made map of the progress so far

Thought this build deserved a thread of its own. This project started out as a side project when I was making my Saturn V, with a simple question: could I build an MK3-sized shuttle without using MK3 parts? This resulted in the following shuttle build. But right after I finished building that shuttle, the flags got released in the KSP update, so I tried replacing some of the parts in that shuttle with flags that could better emulate the texture of the real shuttle. But then I realized it would look very jarring if some of it was flags and some of it just regular KSP flags, so I decided, why not make the entire thing out of flags? Contrary to what you might think, building the shape of the shuttle was the easy part. Getting it to fly, was most definitely not. I thought the flags were physicsless. They were not. Every single time I tried to do a drop test from orbit, the shuttle would spin out of control. Every. Single. Time. I could not for the love of me figure out which part in particular was causing the problems, which pretty much stalled out the process of building. I ended up rebuilding it from scratch in an effort to figure out just what the %$#! was wrong with it, as well as to try and lower the part count (orbiter went from 1100 parts to 900). Eventually, after on and off months of testing, I finally managed to figure out how to fly it without losing control. After many hours of losing my sanity at sub 10 fps, I present to you the best stock shuttle replica I can build. Flight instructions, custom flag downloads and such are on the KerbalX page. KERBALX DOWNLOAD Fancy pics:

It flies!

I finally &%#!ing did it. After spending 6 months on and off working on my stock shuttle I got it to work perfectly.

Started a circumnavigation attempt of Kerbin.

The Elcano challenge is something I've attempted but never succeeded in, so out of boredom I decided to do it in style, with a nice boat. The RV Vanguard is an amphibious ship with the purpose of circumnavigating Kerbin by ocean. The ship uses a quartet of Wheesley jet engines for propulsion, two mounted inline with the hull and two on side-mount pods, which allows for very quick turns using alternating thrust reversers. The rear of the ship also has a flooded cargo bay with claws inside, which lets smaller vessels dock with the ship. As the ship doesn't have the range to circumnavigate Kerbin unrefuelled, nor does it carry ISRU equipment, the plan is to refuel from fuel tankers placed along the planned route. The voyage starts when a truck picks up the 6-kerbal crew from the Astronaut Complex. My headcanon is that a single agency handles all scientific and exploration-related matters, hence these sailors are also stationed in the KSC. The expedition crew pose alongside their ship. Left to right: Isaemy, Seerod, Ludin, Heloly, Leaman, and Thomvis. Ending the first post here with a pretty shot of the Vanguard leaving KSC Harbor with its tugboat escort.