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I haven't updated on RO/RP-0 in a while, so I guess I'll do that. I should probably get around to making my own thread for this, but ehh. I'm lazy and I know it. IIRC, the last time I posted an update was shortly after my third lunar landing. I made three lunar landings - all with different lander desingns, all three of which barely worked (not enough oxygen, off center thrust, and not enough fuel, respectively). Since the risk of an LOC was high, I decided that I'd take a few in-game years off to gather a lot of science and research all of the tech nodes I could so I could design Gravity IV (Hopefully ~200t to LEO) with the most advanced technology possible. Cue Mu-Planetoid. Mu-Planetoid is an initiative to use Mu III (Later Mu IV) rockets to send science probes to other planets, sort of like the real life Mariner probes. Mars impactor? Check! Venus orbiter? Check! Failed Venus lander? Check! Another thing I wanted to do was another Sigma/Peregrine mission. Sigma/Peregrine is a modern 1 man lifter that had a purpose (resupplying Sapphire Station) that became obsolete. So, I thought I'd try something special for its third (and probably final) flight: Artificial gravity! And this went very badly, indeed. I think I managed 0.02g or so before the tether snapped. Then I couldn't reel it all the way in, and my life support container decided to snap off so I had to make an emergency landing. After a while of Mu-Planetoid probes to Venus and Mars, I thought I'd try to do better. I was going to send a probe to Saturn (shown above) but it didn't have enough fuel so I sent it on a flyby of Mercury instead. It passed pretty close. No pictures of this, because it hasn't arrived yet, but I tried putting more stages on a Mu-Planetoid and using it as a Mars relay and lander. It will not have enough fuel to complete its mission unless I can get aerobraking to work properly. So I've reached the limits of Mu-Planetoid. Soon to come: Gravity-Planetoid. Basically advanced space probes (think Cassini, Galileo, etc.) using a lifter five times more powerful than Mu IV. This should allow for advanced missions like Martian moon landers, Saturn orbiters (preferably without gravity assists) and creation of Mars/Venus communications systems. Cool picture of a random science part. I thought it would expand into an antenna, but I wasn't expecting it to be that... huge. But, what I really came here to show you: AVALON STATION! Current mass is 150 tons, assembled over 10 launches with at least 7 more planned (not including crews or resupply missions). Avalon Station is either a big Mir or a small ISS in real world terms. It was born out of the need to do something while the planet probes were on their way. Also planned is a Lunar orbit station, Eclipse Station, using my moon rocket (Gravity III) with station modules rather than the CSM/LM it usually carries. It will require seven launches to complete. Also I just realized that if the RP-0 game clock starts in 1945, then it's currently 1962 in game and I've already landed on the moon and built half of a space station.
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@sevenperforce If I have gotten things mixed up, I apologize, I looked at the first source I found and you're probably right. T-1 minute. *SALUTE*
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Final picture sent by Cassini: Lightspeed delay, probably. It actually was destroyed a while ago but it will take the signal a while to get here.
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I present to you my tribute to the Cassini Huygens mission - "Salute." T-5.5 hours. *SALUTES*
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*sniff* T-10 hours.
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This Forum's KSP fleet vs Mass Effect's Systems Alliance
Ultimate Steve replied to Joseph Kerman's topic in The Lounge
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Okay, it won't let me paste emojis in here, but there is a line of about 50 random emojis on my clipboard. What my comment was originally going to be before I discovered the forum doesn't like emojis:
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Currently saving salute for Friday morning. Will do, though.
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Not for an hour... but I just watched it again and I am certainly tearing up... T-1.5 days. *Extremely emotional version of The Final Countdown begins playing*
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totm dec 2019 Russian Launch and Mission Thread
Ultimate Steve replied to tater's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I thought I was going to miss this one because of school. Then I said to my friend "Hey, there is a rocket launching in 30 seconds." He looks up the stream on his phone (I don't have one) but we are about a minute late and it's just a star in the sky... One more star than there was yesterday! -
The nonchalance with which I imagine you saying that has me laughing out loud...
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@Just Jim just north of Tama? Near Zephyrhills? That's where my grandparents live! Best of luck to you and everyone else down there!
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totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
Ultimate Steve replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Oh, well. Everyone makes dumb mistakes sometimes! I mean, seriously. A while ago I made a mistake in a mission report I was writing and somebody pointed it out to me. I responded by fixing the problem, quoting him, and saying: ...Misspelling "dumb," accidentally proving my own point... -
totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
Ultimate Steve replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Okay, I'm sort of confused as to what you mean here... Note: This post may sound slightly rude, but I promise I do not mean for it to be rude. I'm not sure what you mean by the four additional engines. I meant using the existing Draco thrusters, I never said anything about adding engines. In case confusion between the Dracos is the issue: Both versions of Dragon V2 will use some form of Dracos for docking and orbital maneuvering. The SuperDracos will only be used as an LES on the Crew version of Dragon V2 (I think they also decided to drop the SuperDracos on the cargo version because you don't really need an LES there). -
totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
Ultimate Steve replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
As a LES, but not as a de-orbit system. I think they will still use normal Dracos for that seeing as the cargo version won't have SuperDracos at all. -
totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
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As the title says, what do you think have been your creepiest or loneliest moments in KSP? Well, I was flying to Tetko in the Outer Planets Mod. That probably takes the cake for creepiest. Green atmosphere, reduced lighting (because of both the distance from the sun, and the fact that Tetko's atmosphere was obscuring most of the rest. The atmosphere really blocked out most of my vision, but what I could see was downright creepy: Black lakes, dark green mountains, and other strange things. To top it off, the atmosphere was so thick that jetpacking was limited to about 25 meters per second. The game even felt sluggish! Plus, my mothership decided to randomly overheat for no reason... Loneliest? That's a good question. That same Tetko mission might actually be it, although aerobraking around Sarnus is close, as was my first Eeloo mission.
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I don't know how often I'll be able to do this, but I volunteer as an artist. I do my drawings in real life using colored pencil, though, so I'm a bit atypical in that regard. I'm at school right now, so I can't upload any example work right this second. I also have some screenshots that I would like to submit (although the backlog from the other thread should probably be cleared first) but as I said, I'm at school right now and I can't upload them.
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totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
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T-8 days. *Final Countdown shifts pitch upwards by 4 semitones*
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*Counts* I have like 20 installs currently, including 0.8.5 (!).