Starhawk

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This is a pic of extreme asparagus staging in KSP1. This was from a craft I made back in 2015. No proper aerodynamics at that point so we built pancake rockets. There is also a type of staging known as onion staging. In onion staging the fuel lines would run from the central core straight out along each 'arm' from tank to tank. Each ring of boosters is dropped together. A bit more efficient than conventional staging but nowhere near as good as asparagus. Much simpler to set up however. Happy landings!

Asparagus staging is inherently more efficient in KSP1 and, I am certain, continues to be the case in KSP2. And, as pointed out, since this isn't real life but a simulation without many of the real limitations (fuel in KSP moves at the speed of calculation) asparagus staging works wonderfully. The engineering is much trickier, however, even in the kerbal universe. Happy landings!

Nah. Just old-school keyboard and mouse. I have an old joystick in a box in the basement that I may try to get working at some point. Happy landings!

I managed to fly this little plane under three bridges in one run. It's very maneuverable but it still took quite a few runs. Happy landings!

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Hello @DennisB and welcome to the KSP Forum! I hope you are enjoying your KSP1 experience and your time here on the forum. We are a lively bunch and there are a lot of emotions around EA release of KSP2, but this is still one of the friendliest places on the net. Glad to have you aboard! Happy landings!

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And now that I check back on it, I see that the posts from Grand Discussion that I split off should have been merged into this thread. That has now been done. As regards the issues highlighted in your video I'll add my two cents worth. First, some basic stuff. Aside from getting out and pushing (i.e. EVAing your kerbal and moving the ship around with your jetpack) there are only three ways to turn your ship once it is in vacuum: Reaction wheels RCS thrusters Engine gimbal (i.e. firing the engine at very low thrust and using the gimbal to turn the ship). Reaction wheels seem to behave slightly differently in KSP2 compared to KSP1. This is purely subjective and not tested in any way, but it seems that the ability of small reaction wheels to control very large masses drops off much more quickly than in KSP1. In KSP1 reaction wheels where seriously overpowered and this may be a matter of giving them slightly more realistic values. In any case, even in KSP1 the ship shown in the the youtube video I would absolutely expect to be uncontrollable with the tiny reaction wheel in the probe core. More or larger reaction wheels can work very well to control a vehicle in vacuum. The danger is if the ship is quite bendy the engine may be pointing in a slight off-line compared to the probe core. This disparity in the direction the ship is actually being pushed and the direction that the probe core points can end up in an amplifying oscillation where the ship wobbles back and forth more and more violently and then explodes. This behaviour could be seen in KSP1 as well. The fix for this is to use fins or engine gimbal while in atmosphere and leave the reaction wheels turned off until you enter vacuum. RCS tends to be more forgiving since it inherently has less thrust when the atmosphere is thickest and there is less fighting between engine gimbal direction and probe core direction. Happy landings!

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I took the liberty of just using the copy link function of my web browser and pasting it back into your post. It automatically adds the prefix. It seems to have worked. At least, I can see the picture now. Happy landings!

I believe that you need the 'http://' part of the URL in order to trigger the 'Insert Image' functionality. Happy landings!

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Some may have missed this the CM engagement in this thread: There is a lot of CM engagement here and discussion of the upcoming patch. Happy landings!

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