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MaverickSawyer

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I am guessing that a lot of people here are putting future missions or projects on hold until after 0.21 comes out. I know I am. :P However, what are some of the smaller or more off-the-wall missions you're doing to pass the time?

I'm currently experimenting with cruise missiles and solar escape missions.

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I'm perfecting my precision landings and constructing a small modular base on the Kerbin north pole. Nothing long term, but I suck at landing subsequent missions close to each other so I figured I'd try and get better at it now before I conquer Duna after the update.

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Well since .craft files won't be broken, I am working on my shuttle fleet. I just had a successful flight that confirmed aerodynamic stability and low-speed performance. All that's left is tweaking reentry profiles, and I can move on to the heavy lift shuttle!

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At the moment, I'm not really doing anything. I accidentally corrupted my age-old save file, so I'm out of luck there. I decided to start a new game and try to land on as many celestial bodies as possible, but I stopped since the update is coming soon.

I think that when the update comes out, I'm gonna make it my ultimate goal to plant a flag on every celestial body, discluding Kerbol and Jool. I cannot wait. :)

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For some reason my KSP has becone unstable, and will occasionally fail to save the game state, along with other weirdness, so I really am waiting for .21 before I do anything big again.

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I launched a bunch of probes to all planets I never visited (except Dres), just before the update (and its save-breaking) was announced. So finishing those missions should give me enough playtime until all my mods work in 0.21. I use RemoteTech and the new Deadly Reentry, so gathering data for reentry in atmospheres other than Kerbin will be usefull. I also just installed FAR, so I've got even more to learn. I just landed a probe and a rover on Duna and think I now know how to land there with Deadly Reentry and FAR. And I tried aerobraking on Eve (not advisable) with my Gilly rover mission, and also landed a micro probe from it on Eve. Next, I'm going to drop the rover onto Gilly and mess around a bit in the low gravity... If I've got nothing left to do, I can still toy with insane jumps to orbit, I hope. :)

If I've got more time left, I'm going to use it to design new launcher subassemblies to use with FAR, there's still a lot of learning and design work to be done. Might just as well get over with that in 0.20.2 and have everything ready when 0.21 comes around.

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I'm prototyping my stock space cruiser, which I will launch and assemble in orbit after 0.21 comes out. 15000 L of fuel, eight LV-N engines, crew of twenty. 9 km/s delta-v between refuelings. Lag may be a problem.

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I am going to practice interplanetary transfers, only using the Mün instead of Kerbin. I would also like to work on precision landings on both atmospheric and non-atmospheric bodies.

To let you know its a clever thing you are doing however it is not actually better. it takes more delta V than if you just do it from kerbin orbit

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I'm prototyping my stock space cruiser, which I will launch and assemble in orbit after 0.21 comes out. 15000 L of fuel, eight LV-N engines, crew of twenty. 9 km/s delta-v between refuelings. Lag may be a problem.

Great minds, thinking alike, et cetera.

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Though I call mine a frigate.

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