Ultimate Steve

Yes! They held it! I was worried I was 4 minutes late! Now let's hope it still launches today. An umbilical arm issue might mean going up to the rocket to repair it, leading to a scrub.

Was it this one? It's what I used for calculating DV before I started using KER.

Yay, it's in orbit! It may not be an, uh, *ideal* orbit... Regrettably I will have to delay my turn, stuff came up... not as ideal as @Rath's current scenario... I'll do it when I can. Teaser of Laythe Station Brotoro: 200 part station, 600 part lifter. Two huge nuclear stages, a Rhino stage, and three massive boosters. The boosters are of the "HYPE MK1" model, designed to be a practical massive strap on booster. In total, the first stage has 140 vectors...

Known for contributing to many community save files, and being that guy with all the blue STS things in your signature.

Yeah, GMT sounds okay! Calendar. As far as I know, click on a spot, enter the times and "event title" and you're good to go!

Congrats! That's al right, they'll get done! Yay! Someone stole used my design! Hello, @KenjiKrafts! Of course you can join! If you're more on the building side, you can go ahead and build a bunch of stuff and save it, then upload the save file for someone else to launch it. What would we like from you? Well, I compiled a bit of a list last night, but this is by no means the final list, just a template, you can add whatever you think Laythe needs! So, near term, @KenjiKrafts you can reserve a spot on the calendar (as I look, right now is even fine) and you can build whatever you want and launch whatever you want. I think I'll take the save after you are done, so if there is anything you can't launch I'd be happy to do it for you! P.S. We need to set a standard time zone for the calendar. It might get confusing without one.

From what I hear, actual JAXA has way better coverage, but JAXA does not stream reconnaissance launches. So, this was an amateur stream, but, hey! Better than no stream!

And, we have liftoff!

But then again, >50% of people use that mountain as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUbARjJfgvI Link to the only livestream I could find. -SpaceFlightNow. Well, this is becoming somewhat of a tradition for me, doing last minute launch threads. Enjoy the launch!

7/10 I'm pretty sure it has something to do with measuring electrical resistance, but beyond that? https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740008105.pdf One of my Grandfather's NASA reports (or at least I think it is). Warning: PDF.

I know absolutely nothing about quantum mechanics, and therefore I cannot be confused about it. So 0/0 then. *quickly looks up quantum theory* Whaaa... This statement is false. Think about that for at least one minute straight.

I somewhat support this. It would make the game slightly more interesting. Two thoughts right off the top of my head: 1. What if the Moholes are actually really weird volcanoes? 2. If the tallest mountain on Eve was made into a volcano, it would be really infuriating to land there and then have your ship blown up in an eruption.

Unlike SpaceX, tonight I shall make a landing attempt for EchoStar 23. Target: Droneship Of Course I Really Want To Go To Bed Right Now But I Can't Read The Instructions To Assemble My Bed. OCIRWTGTBRNBICRTITAMB. Rolls right off the tongue! (Man. I want an ASDS blanket now. Like, REALLY BAD!)

Hmm. I did not consider that. It probably wouldn't be fully intact, but it wouldn't be fully burnt up either. Aaaaand... a Pi day pun to end things off! Good night!

Definitely crashed and not burned. They are designed to withstand entry.

One minute! Beginning Final Countdown! YEEEEEEEHAW! LIFTOFF!

Hosted webcast (if only SpaceX FM) as started!

Yay, I get to stay up another half hour!

Today I mostly worked on craft for the reboot of Project Babylon (which I highly encourage everyone to contribute to). First, I built a 200 part space station that needed a 600 part lifter. This led to the highest part count I've ever had on a functioning vessel. (I once built a 1500 part cluster of crew cabins just because I could, but that didn't do anything). Also, I built a simple plane. And then circumnavigated Kerbin. This is the first legit Kerbin circumnavigation I've ever done. The first one I had to cheat in some fuel (because I didn't fill up some of the tanks) and ran out of fuel about five kilometers from KSC. I landed about 1km short of the runway and rolled the rest of the way. I have a plan to send around four of these to Laythe.

As far as I know, March 25-26 are free, so reserve a spot on the thread's calendar (I think it is on the previous page). P.S. When I said (because space pirates) I meant "in case of" not "we are pirates." Just in case you had it mixed up. Well, the more stuff around Laythe, the merrier! I'm going to go back to designing stuff for this. What I plan on doing is designing a whole bunch of ships and then when nobody has the save, I'll copy them over to the save and launch them all. EDIT: I think I got a little carried away designing a Laythe Space Station. (The station is around 200 parts - and the lifter is 600)

Oh. So sorry. I guess I just jumped to conclusions and assumed what the thread was about, sorry. That probably seemed very rude of me. I feel like such an idiot now. The N1 (Russian: Н1, from Ракета-носитель, Raketa-Nositel, carrier)[3] was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit, acting as the Soviet counterpart to the US Saturn V.[4][5] It was designed with crewed extra-orbital travel in mind. Development work started on the N1 in 1959.[5] Its first stage is the most powerful rocket stage ever built.[6] The N1-L3 version was developed to compete with the United States Apollo-Saturn V to land a man on the Moon, using the same lunar orbit rendezvous method. The basic N1 launch vehicle had three stages, which was to carry the L3 lunar payload into low Earth orbit with two cosmonauts. The L3 contained an Earth departure stage; another stage used for mid-course corrections, lunar orbit insertion, and powered descent initiation; a single-pilot LK Lander spacecraft; and a two-pilot Soyuz 7K-LOK lunar orbital spacecraft for return to Earth. The Apollo spacecraft was able to carry three astronauts (landing two on the Moon), and did not require the extra two rocket stages. N1-L3 was underfunded and rushed, starting development in October 1965, almost four years after the Saturn V. The project was badly derailed by the death of its chief designer Sergei Korolev in 1966. Each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed; during the second launch attempt the N1 rocket crashed back onto its launch pad shortly after liftoff and exploded, resulting in one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in human history. The N1 program was suspended in 1974, and in 1976 was officially canceled. Along with the rest of the Soviet manned lunar programs, the N1 was kept secret almost until the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991; information about the N1 was first published in 1989.

Been playing since April 2013, so, wow! Almost four years! (How in the world am I almost on par with @Vanamonde and way above @Just Jim?) And I have done many silly things, as well as many serious things!

Darn it! Hold on a second minute hour day week month year, I'll find it and fix it!

My attempt is incoming soon! I'm going to try to make it a long range one.