What did you do in KSP1 today?

[problemecium]

Today in the actual game of KSP (as opposed to my previous post), I made some more headway toward clearing the Science tree and unlocked the large circular probe cores, allowing me to officially finish my first two "official" light lift rockets. Next order of business: a proper crew shuttle.

[Minnmunmus]

Woohoo! An adventurous Kerbal managed to resurrect the two severely damaged probes on Minmus and saved the mission! He also managed to bring in 1012 science! Now I'm designing my mission plan for a huge trip to the Mun-anyone have any tips for using the KW Rocketry Petal Fairing-I'd really like the option to open it in the VAB before I build my lander.

[SRV Ron]

Built and tested a low cost Mun and Minmus contract lander.

Also built the interplanetary version.

Both are on their way to fulfill their missions to orbit and land on the contract locations and transmit science info, in those cases, temperature readings.

[TrooperCooper]

Carried two long range science probes into a low Kerbin orbit, using another new SSTO spaceplane, the Dreamchaser...

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Each of these probes has like 12k dV to do lots of science anywhere in the Kerbol system.

Edited July 25, 2014 by TrooperCooper

[JacobT11]

Spent some time honing my skills with maneuvering large rockets.

[Superfluous J]

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Spent some time honing my skills with maneuvering large rockets.

You just made me want to try planking rockets around KSC.

[KerbMav]

I added my usual mods to .24 to take a glimps before finally finishing my .23.5. save - I will repeat this process for .24.1 in a few days ... :D

[Ruthgar]

Have just launched in the last gameday 5 separate missions, manned mission to Duna/Ike, Manned mission to Eve/Gilly, unmanned missions to Dres, Moho, and Eeloo. Once the Eeloo ship is aligned to it's transfer point, I'm going to go design/build a ship with multiple small probes for the simple purpose of cleaning up all the space junk up here in Kerbin orbit, though if any of them do have fuel aboard, I will be trying to drain those tanks, doubtful tho.

[Dat_Spacewaffle]

taught my little brother how to play ksp, he managed to kill jeb twice...... hes a master at the game already

[Concentric]

Accepted the Explore Minmus mission and built a rocket that I plan to complete all my currently active contracts in a single launch. That's a flag on Mun, Explore Minmus (also taking a science module and a satellite there), Orbital Rescue, and five different part tests, only three of which I have already unlocked the parts through research (LFB landed at Kerbin, radial 'chute and TR-2V tiny decoupler in flight over Kerbin). I'm also using it to put up a set of four nuclear drive modules (suborbital test and preparation for future missions).

There's a total of three command pods in the rocket, one is empty and is to return the orbital rescuee to the surface, and the other two are manned and part of landers. Hopefully the landers will be capable of a return - they're fitted with parachutes, so that is in the plan.

The most recent version had two sets of drop-tanks. The LFBs feed into them, and they feed up the line and into the main tank. The radial 'chute and decoupler tests have an overlap in altitude/speed requirements that lies between the dropping of the tanks.

Here you can see that there was a lot of leftover fuel in the core: a full Rockomax X200-32 and more than a third of one of the two Jumbo-64 tanks. As such, I believe that I can remove one set of drop tanks and still reach orbit and rendezvous. If this next version doesn't make it to orbit, I'll probably look at splitting the set of X200-16 drop tanks into two sets of X200-8 tanks, and see if that helps at all. If not, well, I can put some small tanks on the LFBs. The 'chutes will come in handy when I attempt to land the thing back at KSC - I'll have to practice my precision de-orbiting.

The total cost of this rocket is almost 260k funds, but with all the mission rewards, I still anticipate turning a profit.

Edited July 25, 2014 by Concentric

[prophet_01]

Being amazed how many mods th 64 bit version can take without colapsing on 0.24.1 *____* i can start a fresh game with 10 big mods including b9 and it doesnt crash this is going to be a looong night

[Felsmak]

I tested an ion engine and landed really close to the VAB.

[Roastduck]

Today, I taught my students about some physics in between what we were actually learning. I later used KSP to demonstrate orbits and how to manipulate them

[Overfloater]

I flew To Laythe & Duna:

Craft file

[SRV Ron]

The low cost Minmus contract rocket has flown and landed completing its mission with lots of fuel to spare.

A single stage to orbit variation is orbiting Kerban to fulfill those transmit data contracts. The SRB ones will orbit the two moons to satisfy similar requests.

[Jon Tash]

Something weird happened to me today. I was planing to go the Minmus with one of my unkerbaled ships. Made a maneuver node, had a minmus encounter and burned. During warp, when I got close to Minmus, my orbit path changed and was going back to Kerbin, after the periapsis on Kerbin it encountered the Mun and later on that same path encounter Minmus again. So let the warp continue, I was still going to Minmus but it would just take me longer than expected.

Good thing I didn't changed my path because I took quite a lot of science from my fly by on the Mun. Now I'm on Minmus on a polar orbit and collecting tons of science.

Wish I had screens of the orbit path.

[Reactordrone]

Tested some engines in various places.

[SkyHook]

Well I crashed. Not a rocket, but the game..over and over!

[Tw1]

Being on CSM duty didn't stop Jeb from seeing the Moon up close.

There's the others! Time to return.

Jebediah. Nothing will stop that magnificent badass.

[Mister Kerman]

Tested some engines in various places.

That's a really cool setup you have. Was it a smooth launch?

[Mohole]

I discovered you can actually get to the Mun with the Kerbal X, however with my piloting, no fuel left.....

[Ruthgar]

Landed on Ike, Jeb decided to go for a walk......a space walk.

Now to get him safely down.

I imagine there might be some bumping along the way.

[Overfloater]

I discovered you can actually get to the Mun with the Kerbal X, however with my piloting, no fuel left.....

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Yes this is a known fact... it can't do a round trip, but still has legs. A very mysterious design.

I wonder if it can do a Minmus round-trip though, just never feel like testing... :-p

[Mister Kerman]

I rescued Kirbles Kerman stranded in orbit. Unfortunately I smashed I to him traveling at about 30M/s which sent his little bum FLYING. I always forget that you can switch from 2 Km away. (I think? I think someone said that once...) He's fine in any case.

I just HAD to have him because of his adorable name.

[Mister Spock]

I completed my first Kerbil rescue! I'm new at this, so it took a fair bit of trial-and-error, not to mention some advice from the helpful people over in the Gameplay Questions forum.