The Funosphere I sent to space... bigger than the VAB

[horndgmium]

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I set out today with the goal of making another moon for Kerbin, because I'd like to have more and my computer can't handle Alternis. This went poorly without motivation for something that is extremely hard to send to space (I will never use hyperedit).

That is, until I saw one time that Whackjob made the Thrillmaster sphere, so I made a bigger one and sent it to space (I'm coming for you, whacky!)

Unfortunately, I had to make it out of B9 8x8 panels because the stock 2x2 panels racked up about 4000 parts to get spherical, which then caused my computer to crash (6 years old now ). This makes it look a little non-spherical, because I had to use bigger than 5 degree increments to be able to fit in in the VAB (even so, the sides of the sphere were not actually inside of it).

Without further ado:

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Mods used: I think only B9 and KW rocketry

Part total somewhere between 1000 and 2000, I closed KSP and it's way too late for me to go look again.

Edited December 28, 2013 by horndgmium

[Levelord]

W-what have you done???

[Ezimole1984]

"That's Not A Moon...It's A Space Station!" Kenobi-Obi Wan

[horndgmium]

Whoops... I'd like to think of my rendition of the death star as more of a 'fun' star. I do plan on driving things around in it after all

[Redshift OTF]

You need to get Jeb to do an EVA inside that thing. Or stick a rover inside and have a drive. I'm guessing it would stick to the walls?

[life_on_venus]

You need to get Jeb to do an EVA inside that thing. Or stick a rover inside and have a drive. I'm guessing it would stick to the walls?

This is not the rover you're looking for...

[Spica]

Put in geostationary orbit, and drive a rover around inside it.

Edit: Ninja'd

Edited December 29, 2013 by Spica
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[horndgmium]

Why geostationary? But anyway I'll be sending a rover up to it when I get some free time next!

[Blitzkrieg]

Oh yeah! Well i can build bigger spaceballs!

[The Jedi Master]

The ability to put a ridiculous sphere into orbit is nothing next to the power of Jebediah Kerman.

[sgt_flyer]

@horndgmium geostationnary is mandatory to be able to drive a rover around (spin induced gravity works in geostationary too )

basically, your rover needs a Surface Velocity to be below the tires breaking speed - even in space - if your not in geosynch, your surface velocity will be too high for the tires and they will break up

[Redshift OTF]

He could always use plane wheels and power his car with RCS if he didn't want to get that thing into a geo stationary orbit.

[horndgmium]

I will not shy from such challenges... how high is geosynch?

[Redshift OTF]

I think 2880 ish Km?

[KvickFlygarn87]

2886.78 IIRC. Don't quote me for it though.

[nubcaker]

Correct, about 2886 km. DO EET.