Hi all, I have been practicing my rocket making skills using Kerbal Space Program
Right now I am low on funding and science, I have a mission I am trying to complete just so I can get another one, hopefully some more tourist missions as I have a rocket already set up for doing those.
But the one I am struggling with is the large decoupler mission into Suborbit. Its called TD-25 Decoupler and is about twice as big as the fuel tanks, engines etc.
The wierd thing is if I just switch that for the normal decoupler on my suborbitter rocket, the icons for Aerodynamics, Centre Of Thrust/Mass all just stay exactly the same , BUT when I try to launch it with the TD-25 the rocket gets to somewhere around 3000m high and starts to curve back down to earth gradually. If I switch back to the small decoupler and change nothing else it flies directly up without needing to be piloted at all.
How can I complete this mission? (note: mission is "Haul TD-25 to suborbital trajectory Alt. 110,000m) - I know with Haul I just need to have it on my ship at the noted altitude but of course I cannot reach that)
Should I take a screenshot or does this text describe what I've tried enough?
I did see the "Rockomax Adapter" that I havent yet unlocked and thought it may help, but the games given me this mission really early I've had it sat a while and done all the others that I can and now I'm stuck either doing this mission or making a cheap plane somehow with the science I already have and then I can complete the "Collect Data at xyz altitute above abc place" - also even if I had the Rockomax adapter, what would that even do if the fuel tanks and engines are still small and so is the control-pod.
Hope that kind of makes sense. Thanks for any help.
Kim
hmm? well i did try with 4 large boosters and it still had the same effect. The thing i found most wierd was how all the Aerodynamics etc icons just stayed exactly the same no matter which decoupler I used. (it of course did look very silly with the large one and looked like it definitely would NOT fly) Sorry what is TWR? The problem is occuring at liftoff stage when I reach approx 3000m altitude. I have not yet separated any stages that would come later before the descent . Is it possible that I just cannot do the mission until I can have all large diameter parts. I guess i will just keep trying many different designs and try to get the large decoupler up to 100,000m somehow. Cheers for your suggestions mate