Delusional Poet

I don’t know if it applies in KSP, but in the real world between 2 circular orbits dV=V2-V1. For an orbit radius increase about 400%, this is about 11% less efficient than a Hohmann Transfer.

Thanks. Decided to salvage what I could from a load without the headache of docking and made Mr K EVA to me and forget about deorbiting his craft.

Ok not a question here. Just spent 45 minutes trying to complete my first docking. About 3m away with a good line up and I accidentally hit the space bar and shoot my [snip] stage separator off!

You know, I think I was in orbit mode now that you mentioned it… And yes, one thing I learned was set reaction wheel to 0 before driving.

So an early contract I accepted involved 3 surface temp measurements about 1/4 of the way around Kerbin. Figured as I just made my first manned Mun landing, it might be good to develop a rover for this task. The plan was to strap an unmanned rover to the front of a ballistic missile, so that close would count. After several trials and errors on getting the payload (rover) built (make sure to have plenty of batteries if doing a night landing, and headlights are nice and never ever warp), I finally got my mission accomplished. Just one weird thing. My rover was wired backwards. The steering was reversed and I had to drive in reverse (s key) to go with my headlights. Is there a good way to know which way the wheels are going to go before I launch the rocket ? Also, I found the Nav ball almost useless on the ground. Is there a setting for just a basic compass or something, so I don’t have to wait for the Mun to rise to know directions?

Moar clamps worked even better.

Thanks, was able to get payload design sorted. Solved reentry issues completely.

One of the tutorials gives a brief overview on how to use them, but it really only scratches the surface.

Yikes! So it sounds like it’s going to take a heck of a lot more than the 6s of fuel I have left can manage. So much for my idea to launch straight north from the space center for my polar orbit. Lucky it’s unmanned.

I have a contract that wants me in a polar orbit with a specific per and apo and LAN. I got all parameters ok but the LAN. Now not sure where to burn to move it efficiently. My LAN is 219 I need 308, and my current orbit is ecc 0.0035 at 89.4 deg incline.

I’m not really sure how to post a picture. Do I hit print screen to take a screenshot?

I have on the outermost SRBs. Then they don’t fall but they do disconnect and don’t fire.

So I have noticed that when I get a bit too aggressive with my SRBs, sometimes some will randomly fall off on the launchpad, or shortly after launch. It’s not a coupler thing specifically, as some of the ones that fall off are directly attached to another booster that doesn’t fall. Structual supports actually seem to make things worse (more SRBs fall off) This seems to happen as my TO weight approaches 900t give or take. Any ideas? Running vanilla and my launch pad is fully upgraded.

Hi there. New space explorer here. So far, the extent of my KSP success is about at the Apollo 8 level. I have managed to orbit Mun and return. I currently have a mission on the way out to Minmus and another going to Eve with the same game plan. I’ll deal with landing later. Right now I’m having 2 issues. 1. I’m having a Devil of a time getting reasonable intercepts of Minmus using nodes. I’m basically getting into circular orbit of K, then tossing a node down, setting apo to about 46Mm, and screwing around with norm/a-norm and whatever the blue ones are called and moving the node around my orbit trying to get an encounter more or less randomly. There has to be a more intelligent way for me to plan this thing so it doesn’t take me 20 minutes to get something that only kind of works. 2. My spacecraft isn’t fantastic at reentry. If I set per to 58km, I hit the surface before chutes deploy. Once I got chutes to deploy at 150m above surface for all the good that did. Only way I have landed safely has been a big retro burn on the way down, and I want to use that fuel for other stuff. Anyways, thanks for reading all that.