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What did you do in KSP1 today?


Xeldrak

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Today I did a bunch of stuff, but as with yesterday, I played for too long to remember it all.

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I did some flying to visit a couple of anomalies on Kerbin, specifically the desert pyramids and the other space station. Man, flying distances on Kerbin is boring. x) I also did a couple of orbital stations around the sun for some easy cash flow. Got the science-for-funds strategy at 90%. I only lack a couple thousand science to complete the tree, and I still have lots to explore on the Mun and other planets, but meh. Transfer windows are far ahead, and biome jumping gets boring. I got a contract for bringing a sun station with 5000 ore, 7500 electricity, lab, ISRU and eight kerbals. Spent some time on that one, it was fun. Really heavy, and I didn't want to spend too much money on unrecoverable stuff. Contract itself paid about 1.3 mill or so, so it was worthwile.

Also sent a couple of probes to Moho, and a rover, but I didn't really think through my plan. I'm afraid they will arrive with so much velocity that they will need 5k deltaV just to orbit. Oh well, they were cheap. :)

Lastly I built some planes, messed around with a flying saucer, and finished with making a light mk2 craft that is very agile and fast. Don't have the stats in my head, but it goes 1.2k m/s at sea level (until it starts to explode, haven't tried with cheats yet). Very fun to fly by KSC at mach 2.5 only 10 meters from the buildings. :) No pics though, KSP keeps crashing from time to time.

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Played around with making replica's for a while as I gear up for doing the Apollo Applications challenge. I figured I'd start the save file off with Mercury and Gemini before moving up to Apollo.

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And since I haven't figured out how to embed the albumb properly yet:

Here's Bob and Bill launching the Little Joe test rocket.

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Running Gemini next, then I'll try to get Mission reports up for them.

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Over the last few days i built my first successful SSTO spaceplane in 1.0.2.

I am still trying to get it as small as i could do it in KSP .90, but it slowly comes together.

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And i began (and finished) construction of my 150 km 45° Inc orbiting science spacestation "Argus One".

Launching station parts:

Now that i do got used to the new aerodynamics, i love launching rockets more than ever... :)

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And the assembled station from different angles:

Finally it makes sense to have a science station in orbit :)

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And a closeup:

Not easy to dock those 3-way symmetry trusses, but they are quite robust, IF thy connect correctly (otherwise the station experiences kerbal style wobble deluxe - took a few f5/f9s)

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My passenger SSTO lost its nose cone during aerobraking on return from Minmus. Rather than just rescue the passengers and abandon the ship, I thought I'd try using KIS to repair it.

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I still had an old Mark III expendable rocket partly-built in my KCT inventory, so I put a replacement nose section in place of the LES and sent it up with Jeb, Val, and an engineer called Wenrine to rendezvous with the SSTO.

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It took a little experimenting (since I couldn't control the EVA jets while manipulating the parts) but after a few tries Wenrine managed to bolt the new nose section and avionics cone onto the front of the SSTO.

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Good as new. Both ships landed back at KSC with no further trouble.

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Built an asteroid harvesting station over Kerbin. It should serve until I can get an ISRU station over Minmus, a fuel depot into Kerbin orbit, and a fuel transport to transfer stuff between the two.

Needs more solar panels though. The conveter takes a lot of electricity.

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