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Alien Planet, that was a cool speculative documentary. But naming the probe Ike obviously won't be a good idea.

I want to do it without installing a mod that changes the aerodynamics of everything.

I'm currently experimenting with making spaceplanes. The problem I'm currently having is not having enough pitch control (as well as rocking in various directions when trying to do that). My plane barely pitches when taking off and doing banking turns. And I actually made it into orbit once with an SSTO spaceplane today. Getting back down is the real challenge. edit: This is the plane (slightly modified from the one that I took into orbit)

I don't even put lots of control surfaces on my plane.

For me, the hardest thing in KSP is making a plane that fly. The hardest part of that is landing on a runway. I believe the reason is that the controls aren't even smooth. Even when fine controls are turned on (caps lock), the plane keeps rocking up and down when turning or exiting out of a turn. Trying to land on a runway either causes the plane to bounce off or to crash. And for most of the time... The plane keeps swerving/veering left or right on the runway when trying to take off. I put the center of lift behind the center of mass. I even put the wheels perpendicular to the ground. It still happens.

About that Sylph launcher: so you made a Falcon 9 Reusable, great job!

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Mission 46 Payload: Wish-4 Description: A small, lightweight rover equipped with a detachable heat shield and deceleration system (parachute/thrusters). Mass at launch: 377 kg (rover); 1131 kg (rover + deceleration system); 1233 kg (rover + deceleration system + heat shield) Launch vehicle: Onion Stick Type-05-2L Mission objective: Land on Duna. Click below to see more:

A series of spacecraft is denoted by a name followed by a number. (ex. Dawn-3 is the third probe mission to the Eve-Gilly system) For launch vehicles: "Onion Stick" (for 1.25 m rockets); "Bottle" (for 2.5 m rockets) followed by Type-# (version number) and the number of boosters (solid or liquid) or cores (example: the Falcon Heavy has 3 cores)

I did that with my "Songbird" satellite network. But they weren't exactly equidistant. And since they didn't have orbits with exactly zero eccentricity that lasted exactly 6 hours, they eventually drifted from their original positions. But when I first completed the network, I thought that it was close enough.

Mission 44 Payload: Futurelab expansion module 3 Launch Vehicle: Bottle Type-03 (first stage: Mainsail) Just one more module to go. Mission 45 Payload: Futurelab expansion module 4 Procedural fairings! Futurelab is now complete.

Robotic programs: [KERTSUNE] low Kerbin orbit satellites (Kerpton Electronic Research/Testing Satellite Using a Number of Experiments) [songbird] Kerbostationary communications satellite network [Moon Princess] Mun/Minmus probes [starlight] Heliocentric probes [Wish] Duna/Ike probes [Dawn] Eve/Gilly probes [Mouhou Project] Moho probes [Wanderer] Outer solar system probes (Jool and beyond) [M/IKU] Mapping/Identification Kethane Units Manned programs: [Kujita] 1-Kerbal capsule [Nebula] 3-Kerbal capsule [Futurelab] 6-Kerbal space station

After almost 3 months, KASDA is back! Mission 43 Payload: Dawn-3 Description: A probe designed for landing on small celestial bodies. Mass at launch: 532 kg Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Type-05-3C Mission objective: Land on Gilly. Click below to see more:

<- *points to my avatar and title* Miku + trance (or house, or techno, etc.) is a good combination, because it sounds futuristic, especially if you take into consideration the meaning of her name. Also, this is the theme song for when humans return to the Moon.

That's justifiable, because it's worked on by only one person (Martin Schweiger) in his spare time, without pay.

Mission 42 Payload: Wish-3 Description: A probe designed to orbit Ike. Mass at launch: 0.269 t Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Type-05 Mission objective: Establish an orbit around Ike. Approaching Ike's sphere of influence after having entered Duna's orbit: Burning until fuel ran out: 891 km x 776 km orbit:

Mission 40 Payload: Futurelab expansion module 1 Description: Extra habitation/lab space. Mass at launch: 6.590 t Launch Vehicle: Bottle Type-02-2S Mission objective: Dock to the Futurelab node module. Mission 41 Payload: Futurelab expansion module 2

It takes place in a parallel universe where there are materials that have super-high densities, but there is no change in the gravitational force.

^That Nova can probably launch a manned Mars mission in one go. Fictional (but realistic) launch vehicles made by Forum Orbiter Italia for Orbiter Space Flight Simulator: From left to right: 01: Triton (5 tonnes to Low Earth Orbit) 02/03: Neptune-1 (10/13 t) and wide-fairing version 04: Neptune-1b (17 t) The Jarvis family is based on an actual proposal for a single rocket derived from Saturn V and Space Shuttle technology. 05: Jarvis-S (Single-engine, 21 t) 06: Jarvis-L (Light, 28 t) 07: Jarvis-C (Commercial, 34 t to LEO, 13 t to Geostationary Transfer Orbit) 08: Jarvis-B (Basic, 44 t) 09: Jarvis-E (Enhanced, 55 t) 10: Jarvis-H (Heavy, 86 t to LEO, 31 t to Lunar transfer) 11: Jarvis-M (Moon, 129 t to LEO, 49 t to Lunar transfer) 12: Quasar-220 (93 t) 13: Quasar-440 (158 t) 14: Quasar-452 (233 t to LEO, 85 t to Lunar transfer)

The Soviets also had the Energia launcher, which could carry 100 tonnes into low Earth orbit.

Awesome mission.

This is not your flight log. Please create your own mission log thread, as this is for KAAST.

You seem to be doing actual scientific observations with this, which is nice, but I think you're measuring atmospheric pressure, not density. Atmospheric pressure is related to how high you are above sea level.

Nice spaceplane.

Mission 39 Payload: M/IKU-01 (Mapping/Identification Kethane Unit) Description: A small observation satellite equipped with a Kethane detector. Mass at launch: 0.739 t Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Type-05 (first stage: LV-T45 liquid engine) Mission objective: Establish a low polar orbit around Kerbin to test Kethane-detecting systems.