Kevin Kyle

How do you determine what time for an injection burn so you arrive at the moon's proper Longitude of Ascending Node for a sat contract? Ive been trying to figure this out since yesterday. Have you ever layed a protractor on your screen trying to determine angles? lol , surely there is some sort of formula you can use to figure this out. It doesnt have to be perfect. It just needs to be close and not 90 degree's off from where I need to be. :) I couldnt seem to find the numbers I need in Mechjeb or KER. This is a Minmus contract which isnt as hard as trying to figure it out for the similar Duna contract I have as well. So how does one do this?

I seem to be missing some parts as well. I Have no idea why. I am assuming of course that there is a 1.875 cylindrical fairing just like the 1.25 and 2.5 size parts? A straight one, not a tapered one, right? Im new to universal storage so maybe im lost somehow but there isnt one in the VAB but I see the other 2 sizes I mentioned.

You mean the lightning? Last night at the KSC, I was getting ready to launch and I look off to the East. There was a lot of cloud cover and it was late evening I think. But there was this storm off in the distance and I could see the lightning and it looked amazing. Seen some great stuff from orbit as well. If you are trying to add this to 5.1.1 ......... its saying that because not all of the dependencies have been updated just yet. You will have to do a manual install if you want it right now. At least, that is what I done.

Go have some fun, that is what we are all here for. Im all for mods taking some time off to just enjoy what they have worked so hard on. TY for all you do.

When I was a little kid growing up, I thought a dog on a cartoon was the last one to name a planet.

I havent been playing for a good while now mostly just for lack of time. In fact, I havent played since just before Making History came out and all of that. But I always knew that there would be some awesome stuff coming this way since the Making History expansion was released. I expect to see a lot of really cool missions from the past, present and the future to come. So, when I stumbled across this I knew I was going to be playing again soon. So I have to give out a really big THANK YOU for all the time and effort you put into this. I downloaded and fired it up right away. Going to be having some fun today. TY so much and if your looking for encouragement to do the next one, go right ahead. I will be eagerly awaiting your next effort should you choose to accept this mission. (ya, thats right, Im a Mission Impossible fan) Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for stirring my interest again. And for all you other wannabe authors out there, we all look forward to your efforts.

I havent had time to play with this yet. But Ive seen some interesting missions and such I hope to do at some future point. Im just too busy racing for the most part which is my first love for about 20 years now. Also, I play a lot of other things as well. Oh and JWE is out tomorrow so ..........

Had to edit my post. Apparently I cant type and think at the same time.

Thankfully I dont get all caught up in the whole its not science thing and just enjoy the movies for what they are. entertainment. Otherwise, it would be impossible to actually enjoy the movie.

They found Schrodinger's cat..........................but then they didnt

My crime? I launched my first rocket and it just snowballed from there.

Nice, thanks for your work. :)

I would love to have a great train sim. I just have 2 problems, time and money. Maybe someday I will get there but I just cant do it right now. Been wanting to do this for several years now. Grew up in the country right next to a crossing. Its funny what you can sleep through. Even train whistles and a shaking house was no reason to wake up. lol :)

I would recommend trying the realism overhaul. Makes it a whole new situation with much much more to learn and a real challenge for those who have done all the other. Im following a tutorial on youtube to get me through it. Realism overhaul makes regular KSP feel like child's play.

Software isnt an exact science, if it isnt here tomorrow, its not going to kill me. Got plenty to be doing as it is. More than I have time for. Not only other games and sims, but RC flight and a brand new fishing license to wear out. If Spring ever actually gets here. Apparently the weather isnt an exact science either. lol

............... and so begins the constant checking of Steam and the forums.

Ahhhh, another opportunity to thank the KSP team. Thanks guys, and also thanks to some that are no longer here as well. Still to this day one of my favorite distractions of all time. Dont see that changing.

If it was pie day I would probably be a little more excited. But happy Pi day to you as well. BTW, have you ever searched for Pi day pie?

Argh. I missed the live event, thanks much for posting a link to it. Looked like a pretty young crew that put that rocket up there. Congrats to them.

I have to vote for Zork as well, mostly because I cant stop lol at this.

RO/RSS/RP-0 Put my first 2 sats in orbit around the Moon. One in a polar orbit and one in a standard orbit. Nathan's tutorials part 11 and 12. I also did the sat mission where I use the Moon to escape Earth but ran out of electricity and could not complete the last experiment outside Earth's SOI. Oh well.....pretty successful day really. Next up..... part 13 Spy sats Really enjoying the tutorials and the whole RO/RSS experience. Definitely harder than regular Kerbal but I am learning a lot. I will be a lot better off for doing this, I can see that now.

SO how do you all deal with electric power consumption? Do you use the old calculator and do the math to figure out if you have enough electric or do you use one of the 2 addons for that? Same thing for communication distances, how do you deal with that as well? Currently Im just doing what the tutorials say and not worrying about such things but I can see I will have too sooner or later.

Sad news, my generation has been taking a beating lately. Unfortunately , it wont be getting any better soon.

OK, fly into the Moon at 1000x it is. I can see I need to boost up the ole testing skills here in Kerbal land. Ive been slacking. lol Thanks for looking at that. If you figure out why it does that, that would be great and feel free to report that to the proper person, whoever that is.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pri3dmr6y3qaziw/KKMoonImpactsaves.zip?dl=0 There ya go Mat. There is a save in there called Moon Impact Mission if you want to reload it from its current position. Ship Name is "Explorer Impactor" Over in the missions list you can see that the first two requirements are currently met. OK, so I just ran it on through again. So thats 3 straight hits to the moon and 3 times the contract has failed. At least Ive hit it 3 times straight.