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I think the following would happen: Just after you loaded the save file, a warning would appear on your screen (while you are still at the space center) telling you that Vessel [Name of the Vessel] is causing problems. If you would press „Ok“, the Vessel would be deleted. And you certainly won‘t be able to load it.

As big as you want and as big as the part limit allows you. Please make a lot of docking ports, and all 3 sizes of them. @OutInSpace What do you think about increasing the part limit to 20 Parts? Maybe somebody else could make this probe.

@epicfailure2020 Are you launching the core module now? And should we post screenshots of our flights to verify that no one is using cheats?

Here are some things I find also very useful in KSP: Fins at the bottom of a rocket are helpful against "rocket flipping". Avoid building tall and skinny landers if you can, they are likely to have trouble with terrain. When you do an interplanetar mission, test your lander by cheating it in a orbit around your destination, landing it, fly it back to orbit again and press "Revert flight" Always quicksafe. Always. Make named quicksafes too. That's actually the most important thing in KSP. Make sure that you always have at least 10% more delta V than you would need (unless you are doing something like a low mass challenge).

And there is something else I noticed about your design (but isn't really about the heat shields): Your boosters have parachutes instead of nosecones. You need them for the landing, but once you are landed, they are just heavy and useless. You should make everything that you don't need for takeoff detachable. My lander drops even the landig legs when the engines are ignited. And I also recommend to always test if your lander can get back to Eve's orbit before you start thinking about getting it to Eve's surface. (I always use hyperedit for testing)

Don‘t worry about the parachutes. The parachutes themselfes don‘t have a collider. When the heat shields are clipped into each other and you decouple them, this results in explosions and debris flying around and most likely crashing in your ship. (Once I had that problem too). You should attach those girder segments to one single part and decouple this part instead of attaching the girder segments with radial decouplers to your ship (like on the picture from my Eve mission)

Also make sure that they aren't clipped into the command pod when they are deployed. And always remember that separatrons provide much less trust on Eve. This was my solution.

My Eve Lander had a decoupler (a normal one, not radial) at the top with 4 radial mounted M-Beams on it. At the end of each M-Beam I attached an inflatable heat shield. The heatshields were overlapping, so I didn‘t need one in the middle. As soon as the parachutes were semi-deployed, I decoupled it (if I remember correctly) and it worked.

Rovers should have a low CoM, then they don‘t flip over and are fun until you get bored.

I highly recommend to get familiar with the TWR display. TWR means thrust weight ratio. It must be larger than one, otherwise your craft won‘t be able to take off vertical (planes can take off with a smaller TWR because they have wings).

Here is already my mission report for STS-5: https://imgur.com/a/oKe2K0B I launched the Hab as the first module of my station. I used some special boosters this time: And here is my mission report for STS-6, which launched the propulsion module: https://imgur.com/a/SU8wiuW STS-7 and STS-8 will hopefully follow soon. Mods: KER, EEX, Trajectories, RCS Build Aid DLC Parts: Making History and Breaking Ground

@hazard-ish made a cool stock submarine: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bmwJoAujU He mentioned that the radial ore tanks are the densest ones.

I recommend to put full ore tanks in a cargobay or service bay. When you close the doors, they don‘t produce lift any more but are still heavy and your submarine should start to sink. When you open the cargobay, it should start returning to the surface. And you don‘t have to drop the ore every time, what makes your submarine reusable. But according to my experience, command pods, elevons and other stuff are often causing submarines to float (even when they shouldn‘t float). Maybe you could attach command pods and crew cabines also inside the cargobay and move them out with offset tools. The game will „think“ that they are in the cargobay and don‘t generate lift. But I‘ve never tried this to be honest.

Check this out: Bradley Whistance managed to make an SSTO mission to Eve and back. He only refueled on Eve‘s surface. No propellers. (I think he also made a video with an Eve SSTO that used propellers instead of ISRU.)

That reminds me that we should have a way to produce fuel on the station. (Who transfers my little 50 kiloton comet to Jool?) I think a Astreoid would be the best way to do this. We could capture a Dresteroid in Dres Orbit, then we wouldn‘t have to transfer it all the way from Kerbin orbit to Jool.

I don't have discord The number of modules that are transported together should depend on their mass - When there are as an example 4 small ones we transport them together, but if there is a very big one, we transport it alone.

Does anybody know what‘s the crash tolerance of a comet? If it‘s high enought and we manage to enter Kerbins atmosphere with an comet, we could „land“ it. But it would be a very hard landing... Edit: Unless it breaks apart...

Did you use part mods to get that much delta V?

@epicfailure2020 said that he would do that, but I think we may need multiple core modules because it would be very hard to build a station with so many modules around just one core module.

Who makes the transfer vehicle now?

What part limit do we have now? 10? 30?

I‘m ready now.

That would be cheating. But we will probably make some kind of a delivery system so that beginners don‘t have to fly their stuff to the final destination. You would have to launch it to LKO instead and them someone else takes care of the transfer.

Cool, then someone else could make an escape pod that could be deorbited using your mass relay.

Please correct me if I‘m wrong, but how do you want to plant a flag on the ocean floor? You can go on EVA underwater, but as soon as you release the ladder, the Kerbal starts floating up. By the way, this is a very impressive mission! Good luck!