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Greetings to KSP Fore Arms! Puns aside, the way I do rendezvousing is I get in a very slightly smaller (Or bigger) orbit than the craft I want to Rendezvous with, and then wait to get close up, and once I get close I just follow my instincts, usually if it's a crew transfer I get out of the ship at around 2 kilometers away. Hope that helps!

Jeb on an ICBM chasing Bill on an SSTO

I have the same question. I've seen it again and again, but don't know what it is.

Form This Way

Edit: sorry the image is huge. I can't seem to get the spoiler tag to work for me. Why is there a lone capsule to the left of the image?

We have atmospheric entry in T-10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Atmospheric entry confirmed at 31.415 degrees. We have 1.5 G's and rising. 2 G's and rising. 3.13. 3.7. Signal remains strong. We have lost signal, as expected. ... ... We have regained signal, heat shield is travelling at 50m/s away from the backshell. Parachute is deployed Successfully. We are slowing down as expected. ... ... ... We have delpoyed the Lithobraking cushions. We are travelling at 4.5 m/s- Touchdown confirmed! *Appluase and Cheering*. We are about to activate the retro-rockets on the backshell. Backshell retro-rockets are activated at minimal thrust. The backshell is clear of the ground, accelerating. The backshell and parcahute is now going to crash at a safe distance from the probe. We are unfolding the solar panels. The floatation ballon is being filled with the local gasses. It has successfully been inflated. The air is being heated. And we are airborne! *More appluase and probably more cheering*. We are examining the atmosphere composition. 78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 1% Argon and 1% water vapor. Fairly close to our estimations, but fairly rough.More detailed examinations will be made after all systems are tested. unfolding electrical propulsion- it's a fan,really. The fan works. We are testing the elevation systems. They are working. We are all ready to probe this planet. The atmospheric measurements are currently being more accurately depicted. The green surface appears to be many strands of an unknown material. A sample is being taken. It appears to be very soft, and may be snappable. We are able to snap off a strand of the fine material, and we can confirm it is a living organism. Thousands upon thousands of them, infact. all bundled together across the vast expanses of land found on this planet. Each single strand itself being formed of many, many, many, many blobs, each living themselves. It seems to be formed mostly of water. A tall brown structure has been found, with this previously found lifeform on it. After closer inspection, the green tops appear not to be the other lifeform, but a wider form of it. We picked one, and after analysis it turned out to also be largely out of water, out of miniscule blobs. The large brown part of it seems to turn into many, many, many smaller lines as it progresses higher. After drilling the brown material, it appears to have a large concentration of carbon, aswell as water.

Kerbal (Not as in the corpse of a kerbal, but as in "That's kerbal".)

I actually just wrote this out of boredom, it wasn't about KSP. I do plan to do more, so I might write stuff about one of those planets. I just have to think of a meaning to give the probe. The most kerbal it gets is "Because we estimate everything about it will go backwards", which I added just before putting this into the forum.

Para-dustmites

I have a stock one aswell. Go to my yotube channel in my sig and you can see it, aswell as a tutorial for it.

The JOHNDOE probe is hopefully destined to Saturn orbit, and will carry many other probes with it. It will perform a close-by pass of the sun after leaving earth, and will go closer to the sun than any other Saturn orbiter has ever been. In order to endure this immense heat, it has to be concealed in a very strong shell, aswell as use cooling systems to help it survive such unbearable heat. it will then come back out at earth, and get sent even further out, and will then be on it's trajectory to Saturn. Skip ahead a couple years, and Saturn will be the size of the moon in the sky. at this point, the outer shell decouples from the probe, and then extends it's solar panels. It then sends it's first signal back to earth in the whole flight. Once the probe gets closer to Saturn, it will approach Epimetheus, and let loose it's first of three probes. This probe is named Epim-A, and will de-orbit itself and land on Epimetheus, and then send back signals to the JOHNDOE probe, which in turn is sent back to Earth. The individual 3 probes do not have strong enough antennae to beam back signals directly to Earth. The Epim-A probe will then drill into Epimetheus, to research it's theorized Explosive past. It will also take 240p images, and it could point itself to take more than one picture to make for a larger picture, but it is not capable of a complete panorama. The entire probe is powered by the decay of something radioactive and heat into energy or something. It will then deploy another probe before it fires it's engines, because it is on a trajectory to hit titan right in the face. It will then pass by titan, still recieving data from both craft. And then a while later it will pass by titan. The newly deployed probe, named Snegyuh will hit Titan's athnosphere at incredible speed, and the heat shield will have to endure ridiculous heats as it reaches 12 Gs. This probe NEEDS to be extremely durable to survive this pounding, not to mention the heat. The solution? We make it as compact as can be. Almost everything stays inside a little cylinder, and then unfolds. Once the craft slows down enough, and goes down to a reasonable speed, we activate the parachute. Due to Titan's thick atmosphere, this large parachute will slow us down to 2.5 m/s. The outisde of the probe unfolds, to be used as landing legs. After the probe lands at 2.5 m/s, it will unfold all of it's instruments. And will have soalr panels, along with a spectrometer and other things to study the influence of light from the atmosphere, and give us the most precise readings on Titan's atmosphere yet. It will also include a radiothermal generator of the likes of Epim-A, and will also bring drills and such to study Titan in more detail. Not to forget the all-unimportant camera! It can actually take pictures in many wavlenghts, and contains something to study magnetic fields from the surface. As JOHNDOE passes by Titan, it will go over the north pole and also study any electro magnetic activity it can detect. And after Titan is behind us, JOHNDOE decouples an american flag. Don't ask. Infact, the flag is predicted to freeze, and then shatter as it leaves Saturn's magnetic field, on the escape trajectory it is, infact, on. At this point, JOHNDOE fires it's engines, using up the rest of it's fuel, and puts itself on a orbit around Saturn, and one that won't get interrupted by the moons. After a few (Earth) years, all of the moons will be aligned so that the next probe to be deployed, Epiphony, will be able to burn away from JOHNDOE and go into a trajectory that will intercept with Mimas, recieve data which it can beam straight back to Earth, it will then pass by enceledus, epimetheus, Janus, Titan, Dione, and then back to Titan, where it will spend the rest of it's days orbiting, and aswell as studying Titan, it will help amplify the signals from Huygens and Snegyuh alike. And JOHNDOE will continue to research saturn and it's moons, aswell as take pictures. Pretty pictures. ---(And yes, Snegyuh is Huygens backwards. Because we estimate that everything about it will go backwards.) I'm not really sure if this thread should be here, but that's for a mod to decide now.

Should this be in a thread of it's own? Please tell me. Also, where it should go if it should be it's own thread. The JOHNDOE probe is hopefully destined to Saturn orbit, and will carry many other probes with it. It will perform a close-by pass of the sun after leaving earth, and will go closer to the sun than any other Saturn orbiter has ever been. In order to endure this immense heat, it has to be concealed in a very strong shell, aswell as use cooling systems to help it survive such unbearable heat. it will then come back out at earth, and get sent even further out, and will then be on it's trajectory to Saturn. Skip ahead a couple years, and Saturn will be the size of the moon in the sky. at this point, the outer shell decouples from the probe, and then extends it's solar panels. It then sends it's first signal back to earth in the whole flight. Once the probe gets closer to Saturn, it will approach Epimetheus, and let loose it's first of three probes. This probe is named Epim-A, and will de-orbit itself and land on Epimetheus, and then send back signals to the JOHNDOE probe, which in turn is sent back to Earth. The individual 3 probes do not have strong enough antennae to beam back signals directly to Earth. The Epim-A probe will then drill into Epimetheus, to research it's theorized Explosive past. It will also take 240p images, and it could point itself to take more than one picture to make for a larger picture, but it is not capable of a complete panorama. The entire probe is powered by the decay of something radioactive and heat into energy or something. It will then deploy another probe before it fires it's engines, because it is on a trajectory to hit titan right in the face. It will then pass by titan, still recieving data from both craft. And then a while later it will pass by titan. The newly deployed probe, named Snegyuh will hit Titan's athnosphere at incredible speed, and the heat shield will have to endure ridiculous heats as it reaches 12 Gs. This probe NEEDS to be extremely durable to survive this pounding, not to mention the heat. The solution? We make it as compact as can be. Almost everything stays inside a little cylinder, and then unfolds. Once the craft slows down enough, and goes down to a reasonable speed, we activate the parachute. Due to Titan's thick atmosphere, this large parachute will slow us down to 2.5 m/s. The outisde of the probe unfolds, to be used as landing legs. After the probe lands at 2.5 m/s, it will unfold all of it's instruments. And will have soalr panels, along with a spectrometer and other things to study the influence of light from the atmosphere, and give us the most precise readings on Titan's atmosphere yet. It will also include a radiothermal generator of the likes of Epim-A, and will also bring drills and such to study Titan in more detail. Not to forget the all-unimportant camera! It can actually take pictures in many wavlenghts, and contains something to study magnetic fields from the surface. As JOHNDOE passes by Titan, it will go over the north pole and also study any electro magnetic activity it can detect. And after Titan is behind us, JOHNDOE decouples an american flag. Don't ask. Infact, the flag is predicted to freeze, and then shatter as it leaves Saturn's magnetic field, on the escape trajectory it is, infact, on. At this point, JOHNDOE fires it's engines, using up the rest of it's fuel, and puts itself on a orbit around Saturn, and one that won't get interrupted by the moons. After a few (Earth) years, all of the moons will be aligned so that the next probe to be deployed, Epiphony, will be able to burn away from JOHNDOE and go into a trajectory that will intercept with Mimas, recieve data which it can beam straight back to Earth, it will then pass by enceledus, epimetheus, Janus, Titan, Dione, and then back to Titan, where it will spend the rest of it's days orbiting, and aswell as studying Titan, it will help amplify the signals from Huygens and Snegyuh alike. And JOHNDOE will continue to research saturn and it's moons, aswell as take pictures. Pretty pictures. ---(And yes, Snegyuh is Huygens backwards. Because we estimate that everything about it will go backwards.)

0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide

I'm sure there will be new parts or something to make this easier than it seems.

Kerbin. Explanation: Practice.

One of the biggest problems to new people is Overengineering. Try to keep your rockets simple, but not too simple. Oh, and the optimal time and angle of tilting Varies from rocket to rocket. So, in simple, don't make your rockets TOO big, and tilt east once you begin to reach the thinner atmosphere.

http://tinyurl.com/c7n6gf2

Anything but TV.

Oh, ok. Thanks, I was waiting literally a month for that response, and all of a sudden this thread seemed to have blossomed after a long winter.

Go into orbit, land on Kerbin, and back into orbit. Also, an idea I had which was rather fun, design a rover... That goes into Kerbin orbit and then de-orbits, and lands Via parachutes. An unmanned rocket. A rocket that gets launched with a kerbal ontop. Same as above, but crash into the Mun. Crashing into minmus is just... Try aerobraking. Try Lithobraking. Land an already designed Munar lander upside down. Fun Match the Mun's orbit (Geostationary Mun orbit, mofo.) Do the same as above with minmus. Somehow. Rendezvous in Kerbin orbit. Try landing as close to the pole as possible. This is challenging because the camera begins to freak out. Land on the mun, then minmus, with a single stage. No decoupling. Water vehicle. I hear it's possible. Land on the water vehicle. Be the water vehicle. Feel the water vehicle. Advertise the water vehicle. Try to decouple something and have it hit another ship. Same as above, on the mun or minmus. I'm making these up as I go. Get into Mun or Minmus orbit using only RCS. Angle your camera directly up in the VAB, and put your ship as high as possible. (With the clamps on, of course.) Trust me, it's fun.

Your welcome. Incase you were wondering how it happened, I had a theory that two different crafts went through eachother when on time warp. I expected to die when turning off the time warp when I was inside the ship, but... Well, yeah. Oh, and if you look closely, you can see he is causing a small gap inbetween 2 fuel tanks. I see a 1-man capsule to the right of that image. And a decoupler on the actual creation. Explain?

Plan? That's not Kerbal. Throwing jeb into a suborbital trajectory and hoping he hits the Mun? Now that's kerbal.

I was playing around with somewhat manned rockets, as in it's a loose piece of debris with a kerbal hanging onto a ladder. I tried getting into orbit using the EVA pack after I had been flung into a very, very high altitude. And it was jeb getting up there. He failed to get to orbit. I hastily built a rescue rocket and sent it up, and I spent a long time going around with very high fuel, but then I remembered to throw out one of my kerbals, but then I couldn't rescue Jeb, and it was a sad day. 2 deaths.