LukeTim

This is true... But heck, I\'m rocking a ZTE Skate/Orange Monte Carlo with an ARM11 overclocked to 900MHz... what do I know about power? I do know something about retro style, though.

I know Neil Armstrong was the commander but I could\'ve sworn he also landed the LEM... there was that whole thing about trying to find a good landing site, and running low on fuel... and some sort of computer warning... and I always pictured Neil in the pilot\'s seat (I say seat, I know they were stood up)... that must be for a reason. Also, the guy you quoted never said Neil was the pilot... EDIT: Yes he did... sorry, I\'m stupid and can\'t read.

IIRC, Kerbin, the Mun and Minmus are all procedurally generated, just with a fixed seed all the time so they never differ.

I was in London today. I passed by a Model Zone store, and it occured to me that they may just have some Estes Rockets in stock... so I went in and sure enough they had some. Not a huge selection, but I ended up getting the Patriot Missile model... Heavier than the Alpha III, so should hold up better in the wind. I\'ll make sure to get good photos and video this time.

He shouldn\'t get the GS3 because it is ugly as sin... (no offence intended to GS3 owners, but it is). And it\'s all Apple\'s fault for that ridiculous lawsuit.

I\'d get the S2 and see if I could get Cyanogen Mod 9 on it. I personally wouldn\'t go for the HTC because as much as I dislike the ugly skin Samsung puts on Android it\'s not half as horrible as HTC Sense.

Would have been really awesome (and fairly kerbal) if the first moon landing ended up happening because two guys were like 'F*** it. We\'re here anyway, why the hell not?!'

See if I can get back to Kerbin from Minmus with just a jetpack.

Ohh That guy. Jack Donaghy\'s Dad.

It was an Alpha III, which is in the E2X series so construction was almost as basic as you can get. Might go for one with a little more work in the construction.

Didn\'t manage to find my rocket. I think it\'s ended up in a field 500m from the launch site, and there doesn\'t seem to be any easy way to get there to have a look. Figure I might as well pay a tenner for a new rocket for all the hassle it\'d be trying to find the thing. Not sure whether to go for the same or a different one.

I have. Meant to see it at the cinema, never got round to it.

Ahh, I see. I\'ve never seen The Avengers.

I\'m so confused... You\'re not talking about the Hawkeye thing they use in Cricket/Tennis to check where the ball landed, are you?

Imagine that each circle in the diagram represents a stack of liquid fuel tanks with a standard Liquid Engine at the bottom (Perhaps use a vectored thrust center engine for better control). The outer stacks are attached to the central stack by radial decouplers (not shown) and the yellow arrows are fuel lines. The No Crossfeeding example is a basic setup. The six outer engines burn as S2, and then are dropped. The inner engine then ignites on a full rocket, and starts burning. The Crossfeeding example runs fuel lines from the bottom tank of the outer ring to the bottom tank of the inner engine. All seven engines start burning on launch, and the inner engine is getting all its fuel from the outer tanks. This setup provides higher thrust off the pad than the No Crossfeeding example, but delta-V works out to be the same. However, because the atmosphere is thickest at the surface of Kerbin, it can provide better overall performance by getting out of the lower atmosphere quicker. Asparagus Stalk Booster Staging is a subset of Crossfeeding , where again, all seven engines ignite on launch. However, instead of dropping the outer ring all at once, fuel lines and staging are set up so that all the fuel drains from the S4 tanks, and those are dropped, followed by fuel draining from the S3 tanks, and dropping them, followed by draining from the S2 tanks and dropping them, and finally burning the S1 fuel. Asparagus Staging combines the high thrust on launch advantage with an efficient mode of dumping empty tanks while keeping the rocket balanced. It provides a somewhat significant boost in delta-V over regular crossfeeding. Three-tank-high Asparagus Staging is what I use in my standard stock Munlanders, and for a variety of other pursposes. It is a bit of overkill for a Munlander, to be honest; I often find myself chucking mostly-full boosters at the Mun to get them out of the way of the lander. Never used fuel lines ever... didn\'t really know when to use them. After trying that out, I think I\'ll be using them a lot from now on. Thank you so much for this post!

I see. So no semtex. Anyway, I launched my Alpha III... sadly I only got one decent photo, and it\'s not of the launch itself just me setting up. As far as video goes, I got nothing. My brother was supposed to be recording, but he was standing too far back and doesn\'t seem to know how to use a camera so the footage was useless. And on top of that, the wind carried the rocket quite a long way away. Not entirely sure where it is, but we think we\'ve found a likely spot using what we saw + google maps. Going to see if I can find it now. Despite that, it was a great launch. Left the pad perfectly, and VERY fast... got up to a very high altitude... not sure but at a guess I\'d say 500ft-ish... the chute popped perfectly and it sailed down gently. Just a shame about the wind.

It\'s RCS fuel, IIRC. I think it comes in NovaPunch too...

Yes... but could it not be used to launch a rocket? I know bugger all about this... I just think 'Gunpowder is an explosive, and that can be used as rocket fuel, semtex is an explosive... ergo...' I\'m probably completely wrong.

What about Semtex?

Just watched your launch attempt video, Vostok. I really love the launch pad. Much cooler than Estes ones (at least, the Estes one I have). Looking forward to seeing the Mk. II launch.

Yeah, it\'s got excellent video decoding.

Oh, definitely. It\'ll be in HD and on youtube and everything!

I only just got into this stuff, so I\'m really glad there\'s now a thread about it! I recently got an Estes Alpha III for my birthday and finished building it the other night: I called it the Sass-1... Being from the UK, I don\'t really want USA written all over my rocket. Hoping to launch it tomorrow, provided the weather is okay. Pretty excited. What I really want to do is build a flight computer... not necessarily for this rocket, probably for a bigger one with more room. It\'ll have GPS and an SD card for tracking trajectory, and maybe a GSM module for texting me its location once it\'s landed. Then perhaps when I\'m really confident with this stuff, I might try gimballing with a Gyroscope and Accelerometers...

A friend of mine on another forum (little community of friends, really... not a big forum, only about 30-40 active members) posted a thread about it. I thought it was the most awesome thing I had ever seen... and it was. This was back around the 0.8 release... I think he\'s glad to have made such an impact on my life. Don\'t even think he plays it that much.

Wow, man. Sounds awesome! Good luck.