Flying dutchman

GO for propellant load! damn you beat me to it

no, leo sadly..

well... i built a 4600 ton lv that has the capabillity to put a whopping 30 tons into orbit... the dry mass of stock tanks is redicilously high

always a beatiful sight when the earth finally loads after many attempts! i can reccomend the VaNnadin's 16K RSS texture pack btw, it looks very beautiful and i can still load it with no problems on my laptop with just 8gb ram using ksp 1.8.1.

I second this. I don't know if the challenge allows for this but it really should.

We've had static fire.

so i did not launch an intercontinal ballistic missile but i launched a balistic missile intercontinentally?

North/south america splits at the border between Panama and Colombia, if i launch a firework (small gunpowder rocket) over the border.... I will have launched am icbm?

I heard it does. Just not from the surface.. Refueled lunar starship in orbit- normal capsule docks with it and crew transfers into starship. Starship burns to the moon, Gets in to orbit- lands - goes back in to orbit where the crew is picked up by a capsule for the return.

I wonder if the exhaust velocity will be higher.

Well.. you could count starhopper as a prototype of starship.. and since that has already flown you could technically say that "its" has been flying. Just kidding

Maybe we could make a seperate topic about the economics of asteroid harvesting and/or rapid launch capabilties for miltary usage? And @SOXBLOX

i am using rp-0

as the title says, only half of the science experiments work the rest is either locked or doesn't have the option to conduct the experiment.

Well.. what did they expect? Filling the top tank while the bottom one is still unpressurised..

At least the tanks did not blow up..

Any updates on ss/sh?

that worked, thanks!

i'm trying to build some gears but i can't enable same vessel interaction on the small linear rcs balls although i could a couple versions back. does anyone know how to fix this?

I'm impressed!

I have to stay home from work if i have a snotty nose...

Why would it be a step back? It's a good oppertunity to improve the rocket and make it more reliable. It may look like a step back but really it's not.

the way i see it the launch was succesfull in completing it's objective. the satelites were injected into the right orbit. the landing was a failure. but this seems to confuse some people.

But is does not have to be a nuclear rocket. I think the iss would be able to survive one rl10 engine with a little reinforcement Alternatively use the onboard engine and add extra fuel tanks. Or extend the orbit to just above the first belt and use ion thrusters the rest of the way