CatastrophicFailure

So far this week I've hit a deer with a motorcycle, had major dental work, and am now reduced to a diet of mush. I'll click if I bloody well feel Like It!

Dangit... it's a SpaceX day, I just got up, and I'm already out of likes on here, so you'll have to settle for one on YouTube.

Whoah, @Galileo check your post... it came out a bit... odd... postception... we can go deeper...

Question for the mad math peeps: I'm preparing to send crews to Iota & Ceti, while using Kerbalism which simulates radiation belts. To avoid half-killing the crew, I need an initial orbit on the order of 15-20 degrees inclination, thus flying up and over (or under) the inner belt. So, question is: how can I calculate my launch window so as to catch Iota/Ceti at their AN/DN, avoiding a big correction burn en-route? (I know I can figure it out by cheating a test probe into orbit then playing around with Hyperedit and maneuver nodes to find the right parking orbit, but I'd like to, y'know, not cheat. If I can. )

Mods plz.

Pupil-less Kerbal... ...and here I thought eyeless Kerbals would be creepy. <shhh spoilers still ignoring thread shhh>

Kerman, Kerman, Kerman... Kerman, Kerman, Kerman... call me a conspiracy theorist, but... I'm sensing a... pattern here....

Just throwing this out there: are you playing career? IIRC you can adjust height on those stages, but you have to unlock & possibly purchase it, too.

No, it is I! The one called Deer-slayer, and he of the 31 teef! I've had a rough week... I summon @Ten Key!

Whoops, think you've got me mixed up with @Mikki'a own thread.

Year 5, Day 336... Today, friends, we take the first steps on a grand journey of going beyond this odd little world to the worlds, er, beyond... ...by, basically, going round and round in circles and doing a bunch of other stuff we've already done before, but, like, more. Anyways, the plan of landing a Kerbal on another body shall take five phases. We've already developed a mostly reliable space ship, although it's ridiculously heavy, so we're calling that Phase Zero. Phase 1: Testing in low Gael orbit of a crude crewed vacuum-body lander. Phase 2: A test flight of a new, gargantuan rocket needed to loft the necessary mass into space. Phase 3: A long-duration flight to low Iota orbit, since it's closer, to verify the equipment needed for the 20+-day round trip to Ceti. Phase 4: A crude crewed landing on Ceti herself, to fulfill several contracts. Phase 5: If there's any money and suckers volunteers left, a crewed landing on Iota.

The... Sarah Connor chronicles?

I hope you're taking notes on all this so you remember when to hit space in the actual mission. stupid daily like limit...

Beat me to it... a long time before Twitter Launch is on for Sunday, July 2! ...and then, prepare for the dry days of wanting...

Quick question here: I'm having some real frustrations bringing along enough power storage to keep even a small station powered during orbital night. The current (fairly small) thing I'm working with is sucking down juice at around 8 per second, even with everything turned off. It's nothing fancy, just 4 smallish crew capsules. According to AmpYear, which I thought worked with Kerbalism, it should be pulling less than 1. But AY also doesn't recognize the solar panels. Anyways, I've looked thru the wiki, not finding what I need. Is there some base power requirement for command pods that's not turn-off-able? Is there anything I can tweak in the profile or an MM config to just make it less? 21,000 EC for an 8 ton station just to make it thru the night seems a bit ridiculous.

Not quite, but the crush core in the leg can be replaced in a couple of hours according to Musk.

You're about 5 days too early.

Right, and Intelsat is July 2, so that's like.... 38 days between? Big gap given the recent cadence.

Just got to thinking... if the next launch goes off as planned, they'll be taking over a month off before the first August launch. Not quite the 40 days I've heard they'll need, but... making some upgrades for FH, maybe?

What did I do in KSP? I had plans, grand plans! Last night I was finally going to launch my ridiculously tall Saturn analogue to 6.4x Iota, I've slowly been grinding for weeks to unlock tanks big enough, so I've got this tall, skinny, monstrosity that actually flies very nice. But what happened? I hit a deer on my motorcycle. Why there was a deer on my motorcycle, I'll never know, but I sure showed him! But damn my leg is sore today.

Until they call the Raptor one Mk. VI. Or Falcon G. Or...

Via spaceflightnow.com: Intelsat 35e now moved up to July 2, 7:36 EDT. also, CRS-12 on August 10, Formosat August 24, absolutely not Air Force spy plane August 28.

All of it.

Yup. Gordon Lightfoot. And given what happened in that instance, vs Apollo 13, it seems a bit... I dunno, insensitive? Bad form? Just doesn't feel right, 13 was a miracle and the Fitzgerald was an unmitigated disaster.

All things serve the Beam Signal. Oh c'mon, would have been worth it for the awesome nearly-free gravity brake.