What did you do in KSP1 today?

[jimmymcgoochie]

Visited a famous KSP landmark for the first time.

It’s… bigger than I expected.

[Fraktal]

Starting up the game just now when I noticed Steam displaying You have played for 1337 hours.

I'm officially leet now . 

[Kerbals_of_Steel]

Landed a series of small rovers in 4 separate locations on Duna in preparation for upcoming krewed landings:

 

Turns out that the combination of drogue chutes and retro rockets were enough for safe landings without even needing the main chute:

Each rover has a basic science package and low grade automation, allowing it to scout out a good landing spot, act as a homing beacon, and then provide local transportation when the Kerbals get there.

Also landed an automated miner on Ike as part of an experimental ISRU setup to fuel the mothership (The dunce cap on top is a ferry tank for the transfer and insertion burns. ) :

Making the landing burn with a team of Terriers:

Set up and filling the tanks with 15000 units of ore:

 

KoS

[Kerbals_of_Steel]

9 hours ago, jimmymcgoochie said:

Visited a famous KSP landmark for the first time.

 

It’s… bigger than I expected.

It's also an itty-bitty probe for scale . I love that Squiggsy mod!

[jimmymcgoochie]

1 minute ago, Kerbals_of_Steel said:

It's also an itty-bitty probe for scale . I love that Squiggsy mod!

I'm a bit of a sucker for tiny probes too, there's just so much you can do with a lightweight little probe with that much delta-V, plus they're really cheap and can be launched in clusters very easily. And they're really early in the tech tree too so I can actually use them without the really expensive R&D upgrades that most probe cores need.

 

[darthgently]

On 8/1/2021 at 12:57 AM, JcoolTheShipbuilder said:

What should i name the 4th (and final) planet of the Estrela Dobre system?
It will be a super kerbin between the sizes of Petrichor and Hados, probably at 800km radius, will be a cold ice world far from the suns, and will have cracks in its surface.
It will have two moons, one of which will have liquid on its surface, and it will be about 300km in radius. the other moon will be quite similar to Minmus, some craters, but also flat plains, no atmo, and about 120km in size

some suggestions for its names? hmm.. im not really that great at coming up with planet names lol...

Perlin?  I was reading docs for the Waterfall mod and came across a type of noise generator called Perlin.  It could be the planet where the Kraken evolved

[Admiral Fluffy]

On 7/31/2021 at 10:57 PM, JcoolTheShipbuilder said:

What should i name the 4th (and final) planet of the Estrela Dobre system?
It will be a super kerbin between the sizes of Petrichor and Hados, probably at 800km radius, will be a cold ice world far from the suns, and will have cracks in its surface.
It will have two moons, one of which will have liquid on its surface, and it will be about 300km in radius. the other moon will be quite similar to Minmus, some craters, but also flat plains, no atmo, and about 120km in size

some suggestions for its names? hmm.. im not really that great at coming up with planet names lol...

Lark.

[panzer1b]

Updated my Javelin class frigate, a ship i particularly like asthetically (if it wasnt obvious, its vaguely based on the Sulaco in overall layout/looks).

Fully decked out interior, even though survivability is rather terrible (the hull is solid, but everything and i mean everything inside it will get shredded, no bulkheads or multilayer armor plate).

I noticed the new patch gave fireworks some spread, which makes it much harder to kill stuff outside of point blank range, but hey, ammo capacity on these is so insane i really dont mind wasting even half the shots.

Sadly, the patch ruined particle beam weapons entirely, the spread combined with the shortened trails just ruins the looks, but its a minor price to pay, ill just redesign the AKS warships with heavy pulse cannons on the nose instead of beam weapons.

Yeah, that happens when BCorp is stupid enough to engage a Nebula headon (you can actually get both ships to fire at each other when using the autoaim at target, then switch to other ship).

Now that looks amazing, i gave the medium pulse turrets some more varied FX to make them actually feel like flak which they are supposed to be in universe.  Explosions sadly do not do any damage, but hey, it looks super cinematic at least...

Retaliating with the last leftover weapon (the controller was shot off so it wont autofire, but i just rebound the thing to action groups.

Javelin is kaput....

[Hotel26]

Can we get this (LImpet):                                                                                                                                                                                                     into this (Victor IV) with a double-length Mk2 cargo bay?:

   

 

Yes, we can!!:

 

[JadeOfMaar]

I was given some IRL aviation corrections for a test airplane I made (specifically, how to handle canards). As it turns out, the design which already smelled like Ace Combat...decided to go up a level and so a Morgan happened.

[HoskJa]

Oversaw this thing's preparations for the transit to Jool. Will arrive in 80 earth days.

[Neebel]

15 hours ago, Kerbals_of_Steel said:

Turns out that the combination of drogue chutes and retro rockets were enough for safe landings without even needing the main chute:

Were did you get these neat landing legs from?

[Caerfinon]

A little infrastructure project...

The ComNet Probe carries three relays for a little constellation party

Each relay released at the right place and time

Until synchronicity is achieved

What was the name of that company that wanted this done? Oh ya here it is... "The Illuminati".  Odd name that.

Precision orbits provided courtesy of Station Keeping Restationed

 

[Kerbals_of_Steel]

5 hours ago, Neebel said:

Were did you get these neat landing legs from?

The RoverDude/Umbra Space Industries MKS Mod. It includes a huge variety of ground base and colonization parts, probably my most used mod. I use those legs all the time:

 

KoS

[lemon cup]

In our quest to recreate the construction of the ISS, the latest mission - STS-98 - delivers the Destiny Laboratory.

Check out the full mission, and every other mission to the ISS so far, in the thread ISS Adventures!

[septemberWaves]

Vostok.

[RP1IsSuperior]

On 8/4/2021 at 3:59 PM, king of nowhere said:

My OPM grand tour has reached Neidon. Some spectacular views. My congratulations to whoever designed that planet.

first part, the injection burn of my mothership A'Tuin. It then went to Nissee to collect new fuel, and all the stuff needed to keep the greenhouses working

A random pic taken from Thatmo landing, but Neidon is always protagonist

Second part, sending the spaceplane Arrowhead inside the atmosphere.

 

6 darts are way overkill for a 50 ton plane, but with kerbalism there are malfunctions. 4 engines are needed, the other two are backup.

year 64

[panzer1b]

Was a bit annoyed with the lagfesty cruisers today, so i spent some time working on smaller lighter and much more compact ships. 

My newly revamped AKS NG-III Nova-II.  Its a much simpler ship to the usual stuff i work with, and 0 lag when flying it anywhere, including teh ascent with the reentry fx.  Armor is meh, easily obliterated with a solid hit from a heavy torp, but it can at least take glancing blows and it is suprisingly good against fireworks based weaponry.  Not immune, bbut it will take easily 20 salvos from a quad turret and still retain at least fuel/engines, weapons tend to go 1st on this design as its impossible to armor them up properly with such a small ship (and its even comparable offensively to the BC Broadsword, a ship 4 times the parts and 5 times the weight).

Had some issues with the rocket launcher, but eventually i fixed it so it stopped overheating the 2nd round and exploding it...

And the real reason i like these things, you can actually bring a NG-IV Nebula-V, a LG-II TriFighter-III, and 2 of the Novas into load range right atop each other and the lag is still not really noticeable (slight slowdown to time but nothing like the 600+ part cruisers would be).

And the new engine glows, my absolutely favorite part of the newly redesigned ship i made.  Those strip lights are so good looking not to mention very low lag (you only need to enable light emmision on 1 strip per engine cluster and it gets the job done).

[JcoolTheShipbuilder]

I made a system map for the Estrela Dobre system

the planets are in a row, with their moons below
Collait and Culair orbit each other
Basa and Altic are barely visible, they are TINY..
Oyst is not in the habitable zone, it is slightly too close, Collait-Culair are barely warm enough for liquid water on its moons. Hados, despite being well outside the habitable zone, has lava craters from recent heavy impacts, that also slightly affected its moon, Ieros.
the furthest ice world is now named Ichor, however, I need ideas for its two moons
Ichor's large, close moon will have a methane atmosphere. This moon is a cold desert with some lakes of liquid Ethane (just cool enough for Ethane, tho not sure if i want lakes due to the sheer glitchiness of oceans in this pack lol)
Ichor's other moon will be smaller, no atmosphere, with some ice flats.

Edited August 10, 2021 by JcoolTheShipbuilder

[jimmymcgoochie]

Due to a docking port crossfeed mishap, Jeb and engineer Sanlan are in a bit of a pickle around Dres- they have enough fuel to do the landings on Dres and Minmus or to come back to Kerbin, but not both; fortunately they have loads of life support supplies and this is the Snarkiverse, where Dres has Minmus as a moon and orbits Kerbol in a nearly identical orbit to Kerbin so is easily reachable in 10-20 days.

This might be an excuse to build a space station with some big fuel tanks on it and send that to Dres…

[Hotel26]

What a classic jet!!?

I'd be thrilled if anyone can identify this one (author/title)!

It's beautiful -- that's for sure.  M1.74 @ 7km

Edited August 9, 2021 by Hotel26

[Puggonaut]

Mostly this

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Oh and

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finally .

Sorry there is is so many but my upload speed sucks , so there only short clips .

[Caerfinon]

High Arctic Science

Bill travels to the High Arctic to gather some rare scientific data... wait a minute! You're and engineer! A mix up in the SPH and you were thinking of a career change anyway?

[Dientus]

2 minutes ago, Caerfinon said:

High Arctic Science

Bill travels to the High Arctic to gather some rare scientific data... wait a minute! You're and engineer! A mix up in the SPH and you were thinking of a career change anyway?

Was he airlifted and Bob just stayed on the lift?

[Minmus Taster]

I did the usual stuff...

Another day another funeral...