gavman420SSJ

here is mine after a few revisions http://imgur.com/a/5zDAR it works great on minmus, engines are a bit underpowered for mun with only about 1.3 twr. i wasnt sure about power use so i put two big fuel cells when it probably only needs one of the small ones to run on 8% ore

wow. i set down on a 5 or 6% spot, this time with a 5 star engineer and completed mining 7200 ore in like 2 days. looks like sigcee kerman isnt coming home any time soon. thanks for the advice

it took 96 days to mine about 7000 fuel from the mun using one drill. admittedly that was a low concentration spot. what kind of times do you guys get? i would love to be able to fill up in just a few days

would it be possible to make unpowered landings with a custom flightplan?

thanks, that was it. looks great

my green gigantor isnt green i'm not using tacLS. is there something i have to do to turn it green?

top to bottom, just like the pyramids

i like rockets. i find spaceplanes to be annoying in general. to each his own

the intended benefit of a cycler isn't dv (fuel savings), it's time savings for each payload. you set up one cycle ship going out and another coming back. each full orbit may take years, but the time to target is much less. with multiple cycling ships you could have incoming and outgoing ships at regular intervals, like airplanes. so the space hotel guests would be switching hotels at the moon, while their outbound "flight" continued out on the long leg of its orbit.

i don't think the shuttle had its "barn doors" open until it hit the runway. but i would be interested to see if i'm wrong

not necessarily, i did it in an earlier version with no refuel. iirc i used all nukes and detached some as i went to keep twr around .33

is this a docking bug or something else? i can launch two crafts separately and leave them in orbit ok. next i dock them and go back to the VAB. when i try to switch back to the docked craft, one of them shoots off into space and the other sticks in orbit at 0m/s

i had the same problem, try active texture management mod and see if it makes a difference

an ion engine can run for about 3 hours with the biggest xenon tank. a single 6-pack fuel cell can run two engines for that long with about 215 LF + 263 Ox. a simple satellite built this way with no payload has 5100 dv and .09 twr in the VAB. but that doesn't account for the LF/OX usage... time to scale it up!

i noticed when mining an asteroid that even when ore tank is full, the asteroid mass still depletes. so beware of that if you don't want to waste your asteroid