Misguided Kerbal

CTV 12: Failure With the success of the Karson Space Telescope, it was decided to launch CTV-12. However, 30 seconds into the launch, i accidentally pressed the space bar a lot of times an issue occurred with the staging computer, so an abort was triggered. Jebediah, Bob, and Bill were successfully recovered just off the pad.

I finally got around to updating my Standard Launch Vehicles: LLV: Light Launch Vehicle* *Note: Outdated picture. Picture depicts LLV v1, current is LLV v2. The LLV is a low orbit launch vehicle. SLV: Standard Launch Vehicle: The SLV is a low orbit launch vehicle. SLV Heavy: The SLV is a Mun/Minmus/Low orbit launch vehicle. HLV: Heavy Launch Vehicle The HLV is a multipurpose heavy launch vehicle. CTV: Crew Transfer Vehicle* *Note: CTV is just a modified SLV The CTV is a low orbit crew launch vehicle. Shameless self plug: See more in my mission report, KASA:

The Launch Vehicles of KASA: LLV: Light Launch Vehicle* *Note: Outdated picture. Picture depicts LLV v1, current is LLV v2. SLV: Standard Launch Vehicle: SLV Heavy: HLV: Heavy Launch Vehicle CTV: Crew Transfer Vehicle* *Note: CTV is just a modified SLV

The Karson Space Telescope: A not really that big and kinda expensive massive gain for science Ever since the dawn of time, Kerbalkind had looked to the stars, both literally and metaphorically. At the beginning of the dawn of the new age, telescopes were invented, and some prominent astronomers studied the stars, trying to prove that the Mun wasn't made of cheese and Minmus wasn't made of mint. Soon, a new company called Hullcam VDS came to the scene, with their advanced cameras. Bob and the rest of the astronomers heavily lobbied for this, so a long tube with a bunch of cameras on the top, named the Karson Space Telescope after Karson Kerman, who tried to literally pluck a star from the sky. The launch of the Karson Space Telescope was a success. Moments later, the scientists fired up the telescope for some test shots. ScienceCam shot: Wide Angle Cam shot: The mission was declared a success.

-52: You see a door and a button. You press it, revealing a SSTO and a magnetic launch system. You head to the door, but there seems to be a force field blocking you, so you continue.

-50: You see a cow, and a sign that reads "Welcome to Halfway to Nowhere, population 1" A picture of Dres is hanging on the wall. The cow farts in your face, so you decide to move on.

Maybe.

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Today CTV-11 successfully docked with the ADT (Advanced Docking Target). This is my first successful docking, after many failures. Shameless self plug (for more pictures and info, and a little bit of storytelling): Also, I have this beautiful picture from CTV-11 just about to perform SM separation:

CTV-11: Docking! After the failure of CTV-9, CTV-10, and previous docking attempts, KASA was not in a good state. Many kerbals feared that CTV-11 would be another waste of resources, another failed docking attempt. So, with limited fanfare, CTV-11 was launched. CTV-11 nearly ended as the same fate as CTV-9 and CTV-10. The first two docking attempts failed, so it came for a third attempt. The third attempt also failed, and just when Jeb was about to give up, mission control gave the go ahead for another attempt. This time, CTV-11 successfully docked, right over the terminator line. Later, after half an orbit, Jeb got out for a short EVA, and then they underwent another orbit, and again over the bright side, they undocked, and then redocked, proving this capability. Then then proceeded undocking for good. CTV-11 performed another emergency land landing, just 11 km from the ocean. Note: I don't exactly know what to do next. The Moho encounter is in ~40 days, so I should do something in the meantime. Should I do the flight of the X-3 or something else?

Is a 1.7.3 port planned?

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Really? That seems exciting! But probably not. I'm planning on doing CTV 11 later today. Maybe CTV-12 or CTV-13?

How does the EVA view compare with the eyes of a kerbal mod and is it compatible?

So he turned into dres.

He turned into Moho.

So he did, and he found a rainbow rock floating in the air.

Thanks! That's exactly what I was doing, however, whenever they get close, they start spinning around to meet the other and it goes into an endless cycle. That's what's annoying me, really. I'm trying again on CTV-11.

ADT, CTV-9, X-2, and CTV-10: Frustration for KASA To prepare for CTV-9's docking, the ADT (Advanced Docking Target) was placed on the SLV (Standard Launch Vehicle) and rolled out to the pad. The ADT's design was based on a old space telescope chassis, slightly modified for docking target use. ADT was launched successfully, so CTV-9 was rolled out onto the pad for launch. It was deemed a successful failure. Just like the first attempts to dock, it successfully rendezvous, but couldn't dock. After the 5th encounter with the ADT, CTV-9 was ordered to stop because of low fuel and monopropellant reserves from trying to dock. CTV-9 made an emergency land landing instead of a splashdown because of an issue with trajectories issue with the onboard navigation computers. Meanwhile, the spaceplane hangar unveiled their newest prototype, the X-2. Utilizing a new hypersonic fuselage, it looked sleek and looked like it was to make orbit. The X-2 successfully achieved a apoapsis of 40 km, however, it performed much poorly than expected. Later analysis revealed that the 2 RAPIER engines had too low TWR in the upper atmosphere. Another, improved prototype utilizing this hypersonic fuselage is planned for the future. With the disappointment that was CTV-9, CTV-10 was launched to try and dock with the ADT again, in hopes of success this time around. CTV-10 also failed, experiencing many of the issues experienced by CTV-9, including the same issue with trajectories issue with the onboard navigation computer. KASA is currently analyzing the data to see what happened on both of those flights so CTV-11 can avoid these issues.

Ok, that makes sense to me. I do think that enough people here use restock though, but that's your own choice.

@JadeOfMaar These OPT Legacy parts are really nice, but I have one suggestion. I don't know if this has already been talked about before, but this: You can see that the OPT Legacy parts and the OPT Main parts have different color schemes. I like yours better, because it looks more like stock, but it's still different from OPT Main. Just... this really annoys me. Is this on the roadmap, or is their a mm patch you could release? Thanks for responding.

Hey, you know what that looks like?

Yes, I've heard of that too. Too sad they don't have an unlimited budget like us.

I say Milka. They taste better.

Have you tried action groups? You can activate the action group just before staging.