captainb

I don't have a "hammerhead" rover, you must be thinking of someone else.

You mean this rover? here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6lbyildn8p92vn7/MPL Rover %2B Skycrane.craft?dl=0

I will try to help you via PM. I'd like to keep the thread on-topic tho.

Cetera's suit mod. They are awesome!

Lots of great shots here! It looks like you have quite a lot going on in your career! If you're going to post more than 6 images in a post, I'd recommend either embedding an imgur album or putting the pics inside spoiler tags.

We'll go with yes

The Crew Arrives With only a day left before the transfer window, activity is ramping up at the KSC. Spirits are high, as the Magellan 4 board the Lynx crew transport SSTO. They are thrust back into their seats as the 4 RAPIER engines ignite. Soon the Lynx lifts smoothly off the runway and begins the climb to orbit to meet the waiting Trinidad flagship. This is the inaugural flight of the Lynx and the vehicle performs admirably. The protective heat tiles keep the blazing inferno on the outside of the ship and orbit is achieved with plenty of fuel to spare. Likewise rendezvous and docking proceed without a hitch. The crew transfers over to Trinidad which will serve as both their home and lifeboat for the next 6 years. Leatha undocks the Lynx and makes preparations for re-entry. Meanwhile, the crew of the Trinidad check out their new digs! Commander Jeb goes for a spacewalk to inspect all ship systems prior to departure Full album link can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/iqu2o

Two minor feature requests: 1) Remember previous camera settings - When I deactivate the camera view by pressing backspace, the view defaults to a highly zoomed out view. I then have to zoom in with the scroll wheel to get back to a useful viewpoint. It would be nice if the mod could remember your previous camara state (angle, zoom, focus etc.) so that when exiting Hullcam view it returns to the 3rd person view you had before. 2) Docking cam set as target - If I use set as target option on the right click menu of a docking port, I no longer get distance or relative velocity readouts.

this is a cool idea.

Found these videos on their youtube channel delving into the process to build a demonstrator rocket using a linear aerospike. So it looks like they have a team of at least 6 people working on it. Hopefully they don't run out of funds before then!

Musk stated that they found a "better way" to do Mars landings. Any ideas what that might be?

If all goes well, I will get both low and high orbit science, since I will park the flagship in orbit. I will also get 1 biome landed science from the probe. Is there another type of science data from suborbital on non-atmospheric bodies that I'm forgetting about?

Thanks @Mikki! I did think about a Kerbaled Tylo landing, but decided to go with a probe lander for simplicity and weight. Thats why this is a Jool 4.5 mission and not a Jool-5. Someday I will build a crewed Tylo lander!

Hi @Mikki Do you Is the cryosleep pod supposed to reset radiation accumulation to 0% or is that a bug you've managed to exploit? Any upcoming posts in the mission log or is it finished for now?

Are you using the cryosleep mod or not? If not, are you MAD? But seriously, can I get some more pics of Eggyolk-1 in good lighting along with description of features?

Four days before the Jool transfer window arrives, the crew selection for the Magellan Mission has been finalized! Crew bios Lt. 1st Class Valentina Kerman (Pilot/Navigator): A graduate from the Krunze Polytechnic Institute, Valentina (or Val) has a serious need for speed. Always wanting to be on the cutting edge of space exploration, Val joined the space program when she heard Jeb had become stranded after the first Mun landing. Val was sent on a hastily planned rescue mission, and was then herself stranded when it was realized her craft didn't have enough juice to return home. After a 2nd rescue mission successfully brought Jeb and Val home, Val went on to pilot the highly successful Tombaugh Lab long-duration mission to collect surface science data from Minmus. When off duty, Val can be found joy riding in any number of high speed experimental aircraft. Cap. Jebediah Kerman (Pilot/Commander): The original steely-eyed missile man, Jebediah Kerman was born to fly. At a young age, Jeb cobbled together a ultralight aircraft from scrap machinery on his parent's farm and was soon terrorizing the neighbors cows and buzzing grain silos. After graduating, he became one of the founding members of the Kerbal Rocket Corps, which eventually became the Kerbal Space Program. He pioneered the use of the gravity turn and was the first Kerbal to land on the Mun (as well as the first to require a rescue). More recently, Jeb has taken an active role in recruiting and training new cadets. He has personally rescued numerous kerbonauts stranded in orbit by rival space agencies around Kerbin and Minmus and trained them in proper spaceflight procedures. Jeb was the natural choice to command the Magellan Mission. Mission Specialist Danma Kerman (Scientist): A veteran of the Tombaugh lab expedition, Danma was ecstatic to be selected for the Magellan Mission. Danma has dual PhDs in geology and chemistry. She pioneered use the laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy to study the chemical composition of the Minmus and Munar regolith and she believes the technique can be adapted to study the surface composition of the Joolian moons. Danma has also taken up astronomy as a hobby and constantly annoys the radio dish operators with questions. Mission Specialist Elirine Kerman (Scientist): Elirine is the youngest and most junior kerbonaut selected for the Magellan Mission. She was chosen for expertise in hydrology and exo-climatology and was the first to discover the cloud layer of Laythe. She is a qualified pilot and has been training extensively to fly the Laika SSTO down to the Laythe surface to investigate the atmosphere and oceans firsthand. The KSC also hopes she will be able to combat crew boredom on the long outbound and return legs of the mission based on a statment from her application: "I also know lots of magic tricks that will dazzle and amaze anyone watching." The crew poses for a photo-op during a hastily-thrown-together training exercise.

Are there any albums of the parts in this mod? Looked in the OP but didn't see any. Imgur album embedding may be to blame?

how about this:

Color me intrigued. Have you seen what @Mikki did with his Duna mission?

Just tried this and wow is it fantastic. My planes are actually fun to fly now! I have other options in between a 1 and 20g turn and also my wings don't constantly rock back and forth! One question I had - is there a way to have the view snap back after free look? In my version (2.1.2) I have to manually drag the view back to where I want it.

I know I'm late to the party but I just found this thread and I must say I love your design aesthetic! I may steal some ideas from you such as the Jr-Sr-Jr clamp-o-tron docking port arrangement and the Constellation style trusses.

I started working on a small powered glider for Duna loosely based on NASA's ARES mission concept. http://imgur.com/a/9Fspx My original plan was to use the underslung booster to get the glider up to speed (~500m/s), then jettison it for better glide performance. However initial testing at Duna showed that the glider was not aerodynamically stable above about 150m/s without the booster attached. The glider flies just fine on Kerbin up to about 400m/s at 10 km, but when I jettison the booster on Duna, the nose begins processing about the prograde vector until it loses all of its speed. I'm finding Duna aerodynamics to be very strange and sluggish. I'm going to try to keep working on it tho.

Immediately following confirmation of a good orbit of the Trinidad core, the two sets of saddle tanks were launched to rendezvous and dock. The launch vehicle for the saddle tanks is a modified Magellan large booster with stretched side tanks to provide the necessary delta-V to reach orbit. The TWR on the pad is closer to 1.85 instead of 1.95, but it quickly climbs past 2 with the thirsty fuel consumption of the twin boar engines. http://imgur.com/a/9OE4L It was discovered that the booster cores of the saddle tank LV - ostensibly designed for recovery - have insufficient fuel reserves for a safe touchdown. One booster will be stranded in orbit on fumes and another has enough delta-V for a de-orbit burn but not enough to avoid overheating on re-entry. Oh well... The main mission is in good shape though, with a interplanetary vessel full of fuel and ready to depart for Jool as soon as her crew arrives.

Richbro Kerman is one of my engineers

Today I launched the core section of a vehicle which will take 4 Kerbals to explore the Jool system in my 1.2.2 career save. The Trinidad is the flagship vessel of the Magellan mission to Jool. Her cargo bay houses an uncrewed Tylo probe lander and a crewed Vall/Pol/Bop lander. She also carries a 1-man Laythe SSTO on her back. Two sets of saddle tanks containing 10,000 units of Lf each will be added on in LKO to supply the delta-V necessary for the mission.