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I would pay $300 for this game

When my probe is going to take 80 years to get to its destination I do other missions while waiting because that's like an hour of time warp

My transkeptunian probe is gonna take 80 years to encounter it's target

After Moho was knocked off the list Val wanted to go to Vall, the name just seemed to be calling her there.. Previous career mission links: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...28Pic-Heavy%29 http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...on-Maintenance http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...28Pic-Heavy%29 http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/136849-A-Day-at-the-Beach%21-Laythe-Landing-and-Return-%28Pic-Heavy%29 The Delta V requirements were not as strenuous so it was decided to use an underpowered prototype of the same rocket that went to Moho, dubbed the Thanatos MkI. The lander is the exact same as the Moho one. Stage separation Interplanetary burn Approaching Jool Jool Coming up on Vall Detaching lander Deorbit burn Preparing for touch down Landing successful! Glamour shot Vall was so excited on the descent she forgot to dump the exhausted tanks They'll be sitting here for a long time Val hops the lander over a few kilometres for two additional landings and clears all three equatorial biomes The three landing sites Rendezvous Val spots the KRV (Kerbin Return Vehicle) Val performs a short spacewalk to transfer to the KRV, the MkI does not have docking capability Leaving Vall Approaching Kerbin Re-Entry Home sweet home

My favourite was the transit

A landing on Laythe! http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/136849-A-Day-at-the-Beach!-Laythe-Landing-and-Return-(Pic-Heavy)?p=2247108#post2247108

I redesigned the lander afterwords and it seems an extra set of drop tanks with additional parachutes on them, and a bigger heat-shield to cover it all solves the problem. It only weighs about an extra ton so the transit stages shouldn't have a problem moving it around. The revamped lander coming in hot Chutes out All chutes out Even with the extra chutes, this version of the lander touches down a little harder then before More Jool beauty shots Fuel and trajectory look good Final stage on the lander Orbital insertion successful, about 300m/s of Delta-V left over for rendezvous maneuvers.. oh I forgot to mention one of the landing legs broke and was not retractable, oh well

Cool! I want to do a grand tour some time

Trisa Kerman wanted a nice day at the beach, but it was too crowded! The Thanatos MkIV was assembled to help her have the peaceful vacation she deserved. Previous career mission links: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/136677-Manned-Tylo-Sample-Return-%28Pic-Heavy%29 http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/136831-Space-Station-Maintenance http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/136574-Finally-Conquered-Moho-%28Pic-Heavy%29 http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/136897-Val-goes-to-Vall-%28Pic-Heavy%29 Stage one detach (I don't have proper seperatrons yet so solid boosters will have to do) This stage always explodes after I drop it Interplanetary Burn Staging Capture Burn This looks like the perfect holiday location! Capture burn Stage Trisa can't wait to play in the sand Detach! After setting up an ideal landing trajectory Trisa drops the de-orbit stage and points the heat shield retrograde Jool Rise This lander is kinda tippy so it needs a relatively flat spot to touch down Deploying chutes Dropping the heat shield A whole planet of beaches to herself! Jool looks stunning from Laythe Trisa is running low on snacks which means it's time to go home, Vall and Tylo are also quite visible Liftoff It seems that the most efficient way to ascend is with a very gradual gravity turn, keeping nearly vertical until at least 20km altitude Dropping external fuel tanks The fuel gauge seems a little lower then it should be... It seems the engineers underestimated the high drag atmosphere and Trisa is in a suborbital trajectory short about 1km/s, there is only one thing left to do Trisa made orbit with about half a unit of EVA propellant remaining, and after remotely piloting the KRV (Kerbin Return Vehicle) into a rendezvous she safely borded The KRV does have a bit of extra fuel so it was decided to clean up a contract requiring a vessel to perform a flyby of Pol and return to Kerbin, Trisa can't believe KSC would ask her to work during her vacation! I had to take a picture of this amazing transit Trisa zooms past the surface gathering some scientific data along the way Trisa says goodbye to the Joolian system Somehow a Tylo encounter just before my interplanetary burn put the KRV in this ridiculous orbit, but there was enough fuel to set up a Kerbin aerocapture Coming home Trisa puts her wet clothes on the floor to dry them out Vacation completed!

Sorry if this is a necro, but I tested this out and it seems like I consistantly need nearly 4k delta V for a Laythe ascent

I got the module attached but the solar panels touched each other, this made me frown.. Until I realized the ultimate solution, smash the panels away!

We added a Power Module to Sky Lab, and Jeb got rid of excess Solar Panels the Kerbal Way Launching the Module Approaching the Station YEE HAW!!! Power Module Deployed

I usually go with the Interstellar soundtrack, some of the tracks from The Martian work well too, like "See you in a few"

I have a lot of mods so my game bugs out sometimes Sometimes a circle of shade about 100meters in diameter follows my ship around even when I am in sunlight

Thanks! Honestly this was pretty easy after the Moho mission

When you constantly mix up real world celestial bodies with their ksp analog.

It was decided that the Kerbal Space Center needed samples from the surface of Tylo, and Lizcia Kerman wanted to see them before anyone else. With a redesigned lander to account for the stronger gravity KSC decided to reuse the Thanatos Rocket. (Previously used to send Jeb to Moho and back http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/136574-Finally-Conquered-Moho-%28Pic-Heavy%29) We have liftoff of Thanatos MkIII Circularizing Interplanetary burn to Jool Approaching the green marble Capture burn Dropping spent stages It looks bigger then through the telescope... Capture burn Jool set Detach! The fuel reading on the KRV indicate Lizcia has plenty of fuel for the trip home which has her smiling wide (Kerbin Return Vehicle) The lander needs to lose about 3km/s before touchdown Lander stage one Lander stage two Stage three ran dry seconds before touch down, but Lizcia holds on to them for now because she still needs the landing gear! Touchdown!! EVA jets do not work here due to the hard pull of gravity After gathering the precious surface samples Lizcia poses for the magazine covers Liftoff! Lizcia drops the empty stage three tanks immediate after clearing the surface Stage four separation Approaching the KRV, 30km out 30 seconds to rendezvous burn Kerbin.. ah.. We have a problem. Turns out one of the docking ports was mounted backwards.. Lizcia runs the numbers and finds the KRV is just shy of 3km/s of delta-V, should be enough Leaving Tylo orbit Final KRV stage Jool rise Interplanetary burn looks good Using remaining fuel to reduce atmospheric shock Detach! The aerocapture took two passes and nearly all of the ablator Preparing for splashdown Home sweet home, with the samples intact

Is ablate in a 1.0 compatable planet pack?

Thanks!

I completed a landing/return mission to Moho! http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/136574-Finally-Conquered-Moho-(Pic-Heavy)?p=2241798#post2241798

Jeb went to Moho... And came back! http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/136574-Finally-Conquered-Moho-%28Pic-Heavy%29?p=2241794#post2241794

After many hours of frustration, I finally have a somewhat efficient rocket that will reliably get one kerbal to the surface of Moho and back again in my career save. I don't have nuclear tech researched yet which made this even more frustrating. I present the Thanatos MkII First stage booster seperation Second stage booster separation Third stage stack separation, apoapsis is nearly at LKO (85km) Circularizing Fourth stage stack separation during interplanetary transit burn Onward to Moho Photo Op, Jeb switches to the lander Coming up on Moho Fifth stack separation during capture burn Jeb spent all but the last two boosters on the KRV (Kerbin Return Vehicle) during the capture burn Circularizing orbit Lander is clear and preparing for descent burn De-orbit burn Looks hilly and steep... Lander tanks 1 and 2 away! Lucky flat spot nearly 3000 Delta-V on the ground has Jeb feeling pretty good about this mission Launch! Kerbin is faintly seen in the distance Fuel tanks 3 and 4 away Approaching the KRV, mono Prop. is tight to save weight, so Jeb has to do this efficiently Almost there Hooray! Jeb sets about transferring the remaining fuel as well as recovered surface data from the lander to the KRV Jeb says his final goodbyes to the lander, it will be orbiting Moho for a very long time Final booster separation on the KRV during the Kerbin transfer burn. Goodbye Moho! Approaching Kerbin Jeb uses the remainder of his fuel to try and bring his speed down before entering Kerbin atmosphere Final separation Jeb is really looking forwards to a cold shower Chute deployment Mission successful!

I usually don't bother with nukes unless I am going somewhere farther then Jool, plus I haven't unlocked them in this save yet. I prefer the vacuum chemical engines, also I love planning it out so I pretty much have just enough fuel to complete the mission, where each stage has enough fuel for specific manuevers.

I just use regular chemical rockets, nuclear is for jool or farther, ions are for small probes after jool

My favourite shots so far