DennisB

I've finished the construction and preparation for my next mission. This is the result Ready for the launch. But not today.

Let's see, what number comes out at the end. Sometimes I wish, I had try to collect landed science at the water biomes, but than I know, it had made my design process much longer, because I almost finished the construction, as I had the idea. I still haven't tried that, but if it works.... who knows.... maybe I will try to get the record back again. But not in the near future for sure. Now my focus is elsewhere.

Yes I know, I made some people curious, but at the moment I want only tell you this. The spacecraft has a similar style and complexity, like my previous ones. The mission itself is more simply than my previous ones, but it is something, what nobody did before (at least I know only less ambitious missions of that kind).

I've reached the final part of my spacecraft construction. It would be so cool to launch it horizontally from the runway, but after I spent so many hours with construction and testing, I gave it up, because I crashed every time at takeoff. Now I have to take off vertically, which doubles the launch mass, but that's it. I have enough of the experiments, and want to start the mission. But I still need more boosters.

I think, you ran out of electricity. You can rotate your vessel with the engine, and if it has an alternator, you can generate electricity at the same time, or at the next time, put on some batteries, or turn off SAS always, when not needed..

If you know, where the Sun was at launch and by which angle your solar panels were off from the ideal position, when reaching equatorial orbit, you can calculate how many hours earlier or later in the day you have to launch to get into the right position. The Earth rotates with 15 degrees per hour. Launching into a polar orbit would be fine too, if you launch at sunrise or sunset.

The same here. The workaround works. But for new visitors it's a problem, because they see the unformatted page, which is useless. I could only find the solution, because I knew, that this thread exists, and if there is a solution, it will stay here, and I found a way to navigate to here.

If you have no control over your satellite, the only solution is to adjust the launch time to have a good orientation, when reaching orbit.

This sounds almost like myself 2 years ago.

Looking at your orbital parameters, it should be Satellite 4, because it has the longest orbital period compared to the other ones, which are more similar to each other.

What is the difference between the two?

How far away was your impact? What was in the text at the moment of impact (impact energy, reductions, or that the experiment couldn't record science)?

I just drop my picture to here Image Upload & Meme Generation | Imgur Then I wait, until the message comes "Upload complete". Then right-click on the image and choose "Copy image link". Then click on the button "Insert image from URL" below the post, paste the link, and it works. If I click too fast on the image to copy the link, then it gets a wrong link, but it's obvious, when I paste it, it starts with "blob:". My only issue with Imgur is, it doesn't work under Opera in private mode, like I surf normally, I have to use it with Edge.

Don't worry. Before my first Eve mission I did only a Mun fly-by and a short visit outside of Kerbin SOI, and didn't land anywhere else than on Kerbin.

In that case, they are most likely broken. What you could try is, to deploy them slowly, maybe the force on them is too high, if they are deployed instantly to 90 degrees.

I can't imagine at a plane of that size, but the symptom is like, you wouldn't have enough power generation/EC storage to operate all of them at the same time.

Circumnavigate Mesbin on foot.

I beated Laythe for the third time. The first one was of course on my Jool 5 mission, the second one was in December during the preparation for my next mission, but unfortunately, that vessel wasn't capable to complete the whole mission, so I had to change the mission plan and almost completely redesign the spacecraft. I hope, this one will be better, because I spent too much time on Laythe everytime.

Did you set the gliding coefficient in the cheat menu to 1 during the tests? The best way to eliminate this type of issue is, to start the test flight from orbit, but it takes longer. But there will be always a risk of undetected structural issues, if you change the structure of your vessels during the mission.

Does anybody know, what happened in the last few hours? The view counter of some (or every?) topics increased massively.

Will you tell us the details, how you collect the 4 copies? I'm curious.

I officially reached 1000 hours. In fact I'm already over it, because last year I played sometimes offline, because I didn't get the mail from Steam with the security code for login sometimes.

I assume, the blades were only deployed in the atmosphere. I had also trouble with the helicopter blades, as I experimented with a quadrocopter lifter. The first issue was flexing, but that's not the issue with your construction. Try to watch the aero forces at testing (F12), maybe you can see the problem earlier, like the lift forces start to oscillate more and more. The reason could be too high rpm paired with too high propeller angle. Try to adjust the angle during the flight, to get better lift, and try to avoid too high rpm. Another idea, I reduced the number of blades per propeller, because I think, I had much less trouble with 6 and 4 blades than with 8.

I'd like to have tilted axis of at least some celestial bodies. Not all, to have different difficulty levels. And I'd like to have wind in the atmospheres, to make things interesting. Another thing, maybe as a difficulty setting, would be less precise course projections. It could be exact at easy level, but with an error band on hard level, which increases as further into the future you predict your trajectory. Maybe it could be dependent on the level of the tracking station. Similar to this, the kerbals could have problems with pointing exactly to the desired vector, depending on experience level, and the probe cores depending on tech level.

Where are the pictures gone? Luckily, I was able to see them earlier. This ship is really massive. I've got to hear, that my spaceships were huge, but this one has more mass in Kerbin orbit, than mine on the launchpad. I wish you good luck for the mission, and enough patience to deal with the lag .