Cannon_Fodder

You can get Hydrocarbons from biological processes other then fossil fuels. Right now the US Navy is working on making jet fuel from sea water by splitting the Carbon off dissolved CO2 and combining it with hydrogen split from H2O.

Just to make sure I understand the challenge. I read that as Single stage FROM Eve to Low-Kerbin-Orbit? I can use a mother-ship or stages to get to Eve and I don't have to land on Kerbin?

http://marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov/ NASA is working on a plane to send to Mars. I want to see how well this thing flies. With Atmosphere so thin they planes will have to be light and fast. They seam to think it can work.

The main question is, with this insane and illogical travel system is there a logical heading for the runway alignment?

That's pretty much what I thought. BattleTech is a game about big stompy robots. Not surprised they really didn't consider physics when they pulled their space travel system out of their a**. And you can jump into a system anywhere along the Proximity Limit AKA "Jump Wall". You can even jump deeper into the system at Lagrange points (in that case you arrive with zero relative velocity to the jump point). ZENITH and NADIR are preferred since they are not effected by planetary gravity and easiest to calculate. Since miscalculation can mean death.

I hope you are not trying to get all 3 up there at once. I had a similar issue trying to get tanks for my re-fueling station. Here are some tips. Burn the fuel during lift off. I designed my launch vehicle to burn the fuel in the tank I planned on using for a station part first. I would refuel it later. Space tug. Even using the fuel I still had an issue getting the tank up to the 110km orbit I wanted with my launch vehicle. So I sent a space tug up then launched the station part into a 75km orbit. I was then able to use the tug to maneuver to the orbit I wanted. In real life ,space companies are generally separated into launch providers (who build and fly launch vehicles) and payload makers. Get yourself a launch provider. Temstar and his Zenith rocket family is my go to launch system builder. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/24787-0-19-1-Zenith-rocket-family

Ships "jump" in/out of a solar system at either the Zenith or Nadir point. They arrive in system with zero velocity relative to the star. Standard transit is burn at 1G acceleration for the target then flip over and burn 1G deceleration (Don't get me started at the issues there). You are in a large "space plane" and use runway. Question: Assuming the arrival/departure from the Zenith or Nadir point what is the best runway alignment for a "space plane" to take off and/or land?

RCS used to increase their thrust output to self balance the rocket. There were exploitable bugs with the calculations. So now they have a fixed amount of thrust. I am hoping they sort of change it again. Give them a MAX thrust then let the calculations dial back the thrust to keep things balanced.

Thank you for this. Designing launch systems is where I have been having a lot of issues. These will make a great addition to my space program. It's great the thread survived the "Great Purge." One thing that has been mentioned before, 75km is an odd orbit. 100km orbits are far more standard. It would be great if somebody could make "Max Payload to 100km LKO" calculations.

Scott has lots of experience so is pretty efficient in his fuel usage. I am no slouch but still didn't do so well with the rocket he used. I ran out of fuel on a couple attempts. I had to add more fuel to the mid stage. Also I make it a habit of having docking ports on all manned missions. I have had to launch WAY to many rescue missions.

GoPro vid highlights from the flight Landed nearly right where they expected. Were able to retrieve it without the help of the Icelandic Coast Guard after all. Just needed to take of the shoes and wade out a few feet from shore.

The Balloon popped, parachuted back to earth, was recovered by Icelandic Coast Guard then the ship model and tablet will be sold to raise money for charity. And as for a waste of money: It gave college students a chance to fulfill a real world mission during their education. I think it was totally worth the money CCP spent. Who say CCP is going to leave it here. It was fun for them so they may try something even more spectacular latter.

Okay, it\'s near space. It is just my real name, character names, and character avatars pics in a document form. It is still pretty cool to me.

At Wednesday May 9th at 12:00 GMT CCP games will launch the names of EVE Online players into space via high altitude balloon. The launch with help of the students of the University of Reykjavík Mission tracking with streaming video via a Samsung Note with 3G Additional mission video 3 on-board GoPro cameras Last but not least vehicle recovery the Icelandic Coast Guard Follow at http://www.ccpgames.com/skywardsphere

That looks great so far.