bobnotbob

I seem to lagging behind. Bobs aerospace (ill be calling it that for now), made a few more launches with the whistlebee I, only one resulted in a crash. As I mentioned before, I forgot about other places I could get science from; so i did those now. After all that though, were one away from unlocking those parachutes, so the Whistlebee II is back on the drawing board. This time I spent a ton on part tests to try and ensure its success. The airframe holds at the high speeds... And we make it! In fact, the Whistlebee II preformed so good that it reached up to 180km! However, thats not great - because without heatshields... It cant survive atmospheric reentry. We did complete the contract, but no science survived Try #2! this time we just put less fuel, which means less delta V. Boosters and sustainer stage worked, getting us to 80km. This time the reentry was much smoother, and the parachute deployed with out a problem. At the end of the day, it netted us around 24 science, putting us at a total of 41 science! I used that to research survivability and mystery goo. Our next goal is to reach orbit.

I guess I'll be the first one to post progress, but definitely not the first one to start. (looking at you techo) Day 1: I made a sounding rocket, which I have dubbed the 'Whistlebee', but I have to wait for integration. Day 19: Integration for the rocket is done, and the first launch highlights are the sustainer engine failing, and also the parachute getting stuck. I used some extra funds to test parts, which improved its reliability from 5/25 to 10/30. Thankfully nothing went wrong on this one, and we completed two of our first contracts. With our new science we were able to research new things, which means its time for a bigger rocket so we can escape the atmosphere. A problem though: we don't have any parachutes apart from the taerobee ones, so making a new rocket will be harder. Luckily, our scientists came up with an innovative and simple idea: After paying a little extra to rush integration, the rocket is ready! Needless to say it didn't go that well, multiple of the boosters failed and the also the parachute. Our scientists concluded that we may have gone too fast, so I lowered the thrust limiters. For extra safety we did another part test to be sure. I think that's all for now, I just remembered that I could have gotten science from the launch pad, lowlands, and lower atmosphere too - so this whole time I might have been able to get normal parachutes and didn't have to add more boosters. If you have any advice, please tell me; I'm still relatively new to mods like BARIS.

Alrighty then, I'm on the aforementioned server; but Dres told me that I should use the forums to log progress and whatnot. I don't know what ill call my program yet, but it'll probably be something along the lines of "bobs aerospace research and space exploration". Doesn't really roll off the tongue though.