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Thats what I thought. Thank you for the followup.

Use the shuttle to place satellites in orbit for Remote Tech. If I get enough Kerbals in there, I can control them from the ship while I deploy them. Plus...a return craft giving me back a ton of my money instead of multiple launches

Thanks, should have thought about that

Or if there is something about relays I am just not getting, let me know. I see on their wiki site that a relay only needs one dish, so I assume the antenna they also say to include is in range of the center or something similar?

Simple question I can't find the answer to and can't tell if my tests are successful or not... Can a dish pointed at a celestial body, assuming there is range and line of site, make contact with all other satellites in that body at one time or is it one satellite to one satellite?

I don't know if it's a glitch or something, but Ram intakes always bum out on me at low altitudes. The front and mod intakes work wonders.

Doesn't sound like the most ideal answer but it is pretty good. If you want speed, get your air intake to .5ish. If you want to enter space, get to .1 and gun it at one elevation.

Just made some... Blackberry... Be jealous: INGREDIENTS 2cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1tablespoon baking powder 3tablespoons sugar 1/2teaspoon table salt 5tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into 1/4-inch pieces 1/2cup ginger chopped and crystallized 1cup heavy cream INSTRUCTIONS 1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 425 degrees. 2. Place flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in large bowl or workbowl of food processor fitted with steel blade. Whisk together or pulse six times. 3. If making by hand, use two knives, a pastry blender, or your fingertips and quickly cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal, with a few slightly larger butter lumps. Stir in ginger. If using food processor, remove cover and distribute butter evenly over dry ingredients. Cover and pulse 12 times, each pulse lasting 1 second. Add ginger and pulse one more time. Transfer dough to large bowl. 4. Stir in heavy cream with rubber spatula or fork until dough begins to form, about 30 seconds. 5. Transfer dough and all dry, floury bits to countertop and knead dough by hand just until it comes together into a rough, slightly sticky ball, 5 to 10 seconds. Following illustrations for Wedge Biscuits, cut scones into 8 wedges. Place wedges on ungreased baking sheet. (Baking sheet can be wrapped in plastic and refrigerated for up to 2 hours.) 6. Bake until scone tops are light brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on wire rack for at least 10 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature. For lemon poppy, I'd add the seeds and zest from one lemon to the dough. Make the juice into a glaze. And remove the ginger. Obviously. I just supplemented ginger and lemon with blackberries. Go make a housemate stoked!

Not too bad an idea. Just pay attention to ISP. Plus, a high atmo ISP engine may be less efficient than a buff, low ISP engine purely because with the lower ISP engine you cover, comparably, no ground. Always have to look at weight and thrust, etc.

Wow...500+hours of gameplay ago. I think they are orbiting the sun, one stuck at Duna. The two orbiting are because I EVAd and they jumped off. I didn't know they had monopro packs...

Another possible issue is that the rocket is not lifting fast enough. When I had narrower rockets reaching 150m/s (rough guess but just know slow is a factor) a minute in, it would topple more often than not. Put some solid fuels on there too maybe?

Right, sorry for that. Been using NEAR for a while so forgot. Thank you Alshain. As for his comments, they are dead on. Those were the problems I ran into early on...weight. If the rocket had too small a lifting body, then sometimes being wobbly was not the problem. Instead, balance was. But I also agree that at this point we should look at a screenshot.

You are probably starting the turn too sharply in the atmosphere. There are a couple things you can consider/do: 1) Get a rotating wheel stabilizer on there. SAS rocks socks. 2) If you need to turn low, get at least two wings (control surfaces) at the base for stability and control. Even with less atmosphere, there is still atmosphere. 3) Try to wait to correct above the atmosphere. If you are burning fast and far, you may extend your orbit to an undesired height, preventing this from being the best option, so use it as a last resort. Also, I would avoid mechjeb until you are more seasoned. When you have to make complicated maneuvers in the future, reliance on mechjeb prevents a full dissection of possible problems. I don't even use it because I want to understand every aspect of everything as for fault, etc. Just a suggestion. Don't worry, so long as there is support at liftoff, every rocket is going to go straight. Its over-correction you need to babysit.

Looking at your problem briefly, it seems familiar. When this kind of thing happened to me, sometimes backing out and reattaching fixed it, but it might not. I would suggest downloading Kerbal Attachment System and using the struts. This allows you to install struts after construction with a kerbal but dragging the strut into place and connecting the two points. If there is a disconnect, two or three struts should prevent all motion on the joint.

Crew tank! I didn't think about that. Yeah I'll do that. I don't want to get shuttle mods. One step closer to using mechjeb for everything because of how integrated the shuttles are. I like complexity, which I guess is also why I'm tackling this issue. I appreciate the suggestions though, look like sweet shuttles. Thanks guys.

Here is the RGU menu. Satellite has just been deployed and is feet away. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5nkz1f6fqnch859/2014-09-29_00004.jpg?dl=0

Ah ok, hmm have to rethink this then. Guess it could be the large pod with 7-kerb room.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sewdbox9cgsc5ju/2014-09-29_00001.jpg?dl=0 Here is the shuttle at the pad (I expelled all satellites in the orbiting one to test multiple theories so here is a fresh one. The shuttle and satellites have solar, dish, and omnis. It is a 2-kerb shuttle. Getting the screenshot you want, too. sec.

Il get a screenshot, sec. But do you need a minimum of 6 kerbals in the shuttle/control center?

So the idea is simple...take a shuttle to launch each satellite. But to make the discussion wholly rewarding, assume the worse is 100% of the time: 1) Shuttle and satellites launch as one ship and detach, becoming probes. 2) Satellites are not in range of KSC with omni antenna. 3) Satellites are not in direct contact, via dish, with KSC. (Yes, they can be during a portion of their orbit, but I want to tackle the issue of setting them up when on the other side of the planet and without an intermediary link between KSC and the soon to be deployed satellite) The problem I am having is, I assume, with the remote guidance unit. I attached one to the shuttle because the tutorial's language regarding remote control of probes using the unit is not directly clear; mentioning you could have six kerbals. The satellite, prior to detachment, cannot link, via dish, to the shuttle since it is part of the same craft. I have already tried setting it to "active ship" or whatever but that does not supplement directly targeting the shuttle. And once you disconnect the satellite, nothing can control it and command it (see below concerning omni antenna issues) so I cannot then target the shuttle and vice versa. Because of this, dish link to the shuttle cannot be made. To overcome this, I attempted to have an omni link between the two. Both the satellite and the shuttle have antenna in range of each other that do not require manual linkage to be acquired. However, even if I extend the antenna prior to detachment, no linkage occurs. I still cannot control the satellite. Further, Remote Tech 2, in the map view, shows the existence of a possible link via omni between the two in gray, but not colored (yellow, etc.). Therefore, omni link cannot be established. So what can we do? I want to drop off satellites with a shuttle that in turn controls those satellites via proximity connection and NOT from KSC.Of course, I can make it so I control one at a time from KSC and fix the issues, but this allows better implementation and direct addressing of the issue, overall. Can we do this?

Not an experienced Linux user nor do I have it. From what I know of it, my comp has too much hardware to benefit from linux over windows, so idk.

Understandable but too bad. I hope its fixed soon (an understandably once it is done). Got 16g ram to feed my 20+ addons. - - - Updated - - - Lol I love that. Would be interesting writing the terms of agreement for it though but I like the idea. Hell, they already bought the game.

So demanding! God get a grip! Ripping on Squad like that.

I think most of us are aware these are the reasons behind lots of online indecent acts. But the real problem is that people feel the actual drive to do it. Punishment is great...but that is what I hate about those people. They need punishment to stop. They aren't deterred, and no one is stopping them. Maybe its maturity, and I am really not trying to jab too hard at this, but I feel absolutely no reason to post negative things. In fact, I feel terrible at even considering it or considering why someone would feel compelled to do it. What we are doing is empowering them. Just ignore them. I do, its easy. Almost none of them followup on their posts or reply to responses. They just want to get the initial one and troll. Kids are predictable.

Exactly where I am on that, as well. Unfortunate people feel the need to turn on their computer, log into the forums, and take the time expel a unrealistic and truly non-existent anger. Pretty absurd people get a rise out of making defamatory comments.