Tw1
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Fantastic!
I like the one with a mustache!
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Nice! Good solution with the seat.
Yeah, reentry heat isn't in yet.
Fun times.
Geschosskopf, good luck with that rescue! Practice rendezvousing to craft around Kerbin first, it takes a little to master it properly.
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When I'm doing something that could go wrong. If I remember.
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I had the first testrun with my heavy Cargo Plane.
I think there might still be some "minor" issues i need to fix.
I like the way the kerbals don't seem bothered in the slightest. "Oh look, the sky."
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Erwise quite enjoyed the storage container for some reason.
Erwise seems like an interesting guy.
You're very well prepared for a first-time Mun lander. Your space program must be pretty organised.
Mine was more like "MOON! GO NAO!" And I stacked SRBs until the rocket went high enough to get there.
Jeb loved it. Some photos from my first Mun (and rocket) attempts.
This stage looked awesome. Still experimenting with designs here.
Why the panels? Because they looked awesome, that's why.
And we're here! (Yep, were here, and alive, that's what counts right?)
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Jeb and Bill study what they suspect is a very thin canal on Minimus.
Those canal things are cool. But I'll raise you one.
Ever curious, my kerbal stepped forward to an instant death. Poof!
This terrain have been fixed by now.
Today, I'm going to show some photos from a favorite set of mine.
Antics on Duna! Celebrating that they were almost back to the lander, they had some fun on the roof, and violating safely policies.
That's right, we are on top of the decoupler (which was installed the wrong way around), and falling of, and loving it!
Oh, hey ground! You're awesome!
The problem with this vehicle, was that the breaks never stayed on, and could not be activated remotely. A kerbal had to be inside at all times, or we risked loosing the vehicle and becoming stranded still many Km from the lander.
But Danble did not want to be left out!
Yet Bob and Erbald were more than happy to see him up there. They literally would not stop grinning.
Party on the roof! Awesome fun times. Made the construction error totally worth it.
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I I have always thought that the increased weight of engines discourages serial staging because the potential TWR and Delta-v loss of having engines not firing on stage --
One of the main advantages I believe purely asparagus or cross-fed rockets have over serial stages is the fact that there aren't any heavy engines being dead weight at any time.
The contrast between the amount of rocket I needed to lift my standard Mun rescue vessel into orbit with a mostly serial staged lifter, compared to my more recent asparagus rockets.
Though perhaps I could've saved some weight with clustering smaller engines, or using the new skipper engine.
Droptank designs have this advantage too.
This shuttle was intended to save anything expensive, so it could be re-used. But the mainsail had a problem of falling of after the parachutes were deployed.
You could call replacing a whole engine "maintenance", so I guess I had one of the same problems the real shuttle program had.
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Had a game of "Angry Kerbs".
This concept needs further development.
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It happens sometimes if you land them head-first at absurd velocity. Not for long, though.
Not always. I had one get his head stuck part way out of his helmet for a while, due to the get-stuck-in-one-pose glitch.
Naturally, I rushed him back to the lander before his face froze.
I guess he still could breath, at least.
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pilots are braver and have a high nausea tolerance, but they're stupid; scientists are smart, but cowards and get sick really easily; engineers... not sure yet... maybe they're somewhere in between, or something else.
Remind you of anyone?
I did suspect Jeb, Bob, and Bill seemed like they'd do those different roles. So that was interesting to hear.
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I haven't seen one around, but it shouldn't be too hard to put together. The figures from the wiki are probably accurate.
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Didn't want to spend the Delta V to get into a proper mapping orbit, but that's Ok.
I'll just take photos. And to save time, I'll just use floodlights to light half the moon.
Tylo albedo experiment!
The spacecraft is a smallish white dot in the second pic.
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Didn't know. Will have to try it some time.
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Idk, I remember seeing the video of someone who flew an SSTO to Laythe, and their plane was flown at 45 degrees for much of the accelerating towards orbit.
Maybe you haven't got enough lift because the air is too thin, and need help from engines?
Perhaps someone with more expertise than myself can advise.
Also, welcome to the forums!
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Wait a minute... Zoom in there.., since when did Kerbals get a row of pointy little teeth on the bottom there??
They've had teeth for a while:
This is what you see when you clip the camera through their head.
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Outch. Poor guy. Not that he seems worried. Did he stay like that?
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Atmosphere does not chang TWR.
Technically it should, but it doesn't in KSP.
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Does anyone have recommendations for photo hosting so I can show off my builds?
I use imagur. It's free, if you only want access to 225 of your photos.
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1. I work out what I want to do.
2. Daydream. Come up with the plan for the flight, stagings, dockings, landings, etc.
3. Think about how that could work, parts, balance, staging, delta V requirements.
4. Design and test parts, first proof of concept, then the actual vehicles. At this point I start making notes of the thrust, electricity, and Delta V requirements of each. This involves trial and error.
5. Once I'm happy, assemble anything in the VAB and SPH, add launch vehicle, put struts everywhere, then attempt mission.
That sounds complex. Really, all I do is work out what I want to do, make it, test it, and fly it. And fix when stuff goes wrong.
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Do you guys design your stages with any specific parameters? Ex like my mainsail powered first stages usually have 3000 m/s and my second stage has 1500-2000 m/s delta v
I aim to make it so I don't leave debris in orbit, so the last stage of the launcher runs out after about 4000 m/s. Apart from that, I like to keep things even, so I'm not wasting metal on engines that are only going to contribute a small amount.
If I need extra acceleration at first, that's what SRBs are for.
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I do have engines under there, they are the skippers.
Ah. Only used them as lower stage engines so far, so didn't recognise the fairing. Thought it was another grey tank.
Edit: thought I'd show an older one, not the most elegant, but it worked.
I think the lower stage was parallel staged, and the upper one asparagus. The whole launcher was made using the "If it goes up, we're doing alright" mindset.
This one ought to get a show too. It was mostly KSPX parts.
It was the most complex, yet successful one I've yet made.
It had drop tanks, and SRBs tucked away in funny places, such as in between fuel tanks. The adapter plate was essential for keeping the boosters level, which was a problem in most earlier versions..
This, and others, didn't fly that well in orbit.
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While technically this was a few days back, I finally got to Jool.
This is my favourite thing I've put into space so far. The lines on those panels....
Jool is beautiful. I highly recommend going there. The probe has carried out the mission plan flawlessly so far. More or less.
That little sub-probe is going Jool-diving. Then it's next stop Tylo for the master probe.
If everything goes well, I may write up a mission report.
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Your decoupler placement is confusing me. You don't seem to have engines beneath the grey tanks. Care to explain your staging
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Binary Moons?
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Jeez, that's barely any time at all. (Gotta love astronomical time scales.