gilflo

Yesterday EagleStar made its way to Kerbin orbi. Calculation for a direct escape trajectory from Laythe to Kerbin was not easy, but we manage to get a escape way so that we approached Kerbin orbit with a reasonable speed and we were able to lower the speed and close the orbit without using to much liquid fuel Mechjeb 2 node editor was a great help for calculations..... Imgur album https://imgur.com/a/jQPz3 Now we need some aerobraking turns to lower the orbit before re-entry EagleStar landed this morning, runway 09 at 5:46 am and went to the apron in front of SPH, with the Explorer docked on his main deck After some aerobraking turns, the sun was rising at Kerbin while apoapsis was 87 and periapsis lowering to 45 kms Approaching periapsis the crew flew EagleStar on his back and lighted on the 4 nuclear engines for a last retrograde burn... Then he ride the nose 90° to sit on radial position for atmospheric re-entry . After aerobraking until 30000m, the crew lowered the nose to prograde to stabilize flight , then engaged fly by wire mode to take flight control . approaching the runway they were distracted and let the speed lower to much, loosing flight control authority...but happily one crew decide to pull up 50% thrust and they avoided ground (you can see that on the vid) and landed safelywith 15 to 20% fuel left. https://imgur.com/a/7gGFl Video from orbit to landing: 3'50"

OK thank you The thread is notified as an old thread and is stopped in June, 25th, so I was thinking it was abandoned....

Hello does it works in 1.3.1 ?

Hello I am looking for a mod allowing to align whatever stuff in all directions in both construction hangars like was doing Hangar grid mod until 1.3.0 Any continuation?

SSTO Hydro OPT Laythe EagleStar, leaving Laythe for a Rendez vous with the small OPT Laythe Explorer. The small jet who left Laythe, 4 days ago, will dock on the main deck They are now ready for Kerbin return

It looks like the Bulb engine is heating very much more than when it was running on 1.2.2 !!

A small 100T OPT VTOL for fun. Around 16000DV in HTOL but far less in VTOL 4 rotation J61 engines in VTOL position Dry COG and Full COG are similar It is super manœuvrable, and much more with some front wing like this model.... Can be use with or without TCA But I am not familiar with VTOL flight. Even with a perfectly balance aircraft, use of take of power is stable until 200m whatever is the number of reaction shells in use, then , the aircraft flips back. But it is easy to change from VTOL to HTOL before 200 m and to continue in straight flight. landing is easier, playing with Throttle. Looking at this vid is better than long words.... About VTOL is there any threads on VTOL construction and VTOL flight? I'll be happy to get some advise....

Hey As an OPT fan I discovered new OPT engines as the Warpjet engines. Can someone explain how to use them? Do I need only tons of electricity and whatever atmosphere to use them ? Do I need initial speed? Some wiki about those engines would be helpful An OPT wiki could also be great

Imgur link is still not working on this forum, but it's working on the French KSP forum with this code [diapo-imgur]https://imgur.com/a/Tbxre[/diapo-imgur] So, why is it impossible here ?

hello here is an Imgur album https://imgur.com/a/Tbxre#4bgZWCH here what's happen when I select the Imgur icon to integrate the album: it asks me for the code and here is the result

Time to fly back home to Kerbin. Explorer is going to leave North Pole where he discovered an anomaly to join Coral Lagoon island where he will meet Eaglestar for a final refueling before climb to Laythe orbit . Then there will be a docking rendez vous to stock Explorer on mothership . Yellow track for Explorer and red track for Eaglestar, coral Lagoon being on the east side of the map. Explorer flight to Coral Lagoon: IMGUR ALBUM NOT WORKING ON FORUM, SO THIS IS DIRECT LINK EagleStar takes off from North Long Island where he had his last refueling , towards Coral lagoon After refuelling, Explorer is ready for take off, after sunrise because both pilots have decided to have some fun in flight They are going to perform some aerobatics to lower the weight of Explorer before climbing to orbit here is the album with some screens, but the vid is much better! https://imgur.com/a/i2uWR Last Explorer flight to Laythe before the Rendezvous for orbital docking https://imgur.com/a/Tbxre#4bgZWCH

Thank's I'll have a look I am still waiting for 1.3.1 that all my mod are updated

I use this mod, it's the only fly by wire mod that allow great flight with whatever plane Any news from Infernal robotics for 1.3 or 1.3.1 ?? Download and information for this mod are hard to find and I would appreciate a robotic mod that fit whatever engine so that I could use all engines for vertical or horizontal flight........

Thank's @linuxgurugamer for your work in KSP mods... Can I use this mod with KSP 1.3?

Thank you for that, especially for Atomic age

Today we will test the Explorer range We'll leave Bird island to Long island south 1122 kms to south west hoping we'll have not to ditch and maybe be able to join Bone island where eagleStar, full of liquid fuel can refuel us Dark blue line on the ScanSat map. We 'll leave at night while it's day at Long island and sun should rise if we arrive at Bone island. So it's a night take off but at more than mach 4 we will sea the sun rising in the west part ! Night take off, fly by wire mod, the aircraft being "touchy" with its short wings Heading to waypoint, we climb quickly to 15000m to accelerate At 23000m in Jool circle, it's heating begins Cruise at 35000m, Thrust 1/3, Mach >5 but it's going to decrease to 4.5. The J61 Ramjet engines stop between 38 and 39000m du to lack of air. Day rising 619 kms from Long island at Mach 4.14 250 from our waypoint kms over Alone, i think, Half tank left, it's much better than i thought and we should be able to make it to Bone island Long island South on the horizon. Cruise between 35 and 38000 is saving a lot of fuel! Vertical of Long island, Distance to Long island and altimeter are quite similar: we are just 36Kms above!! Bone island est is 505 kms in the 247, we are going to turn left which is costly in energy and time... We must increase thrust to keep minimum speed (at 60° bank the weight is twice the airplane weight). Look as mach is decreasing! Vertical Mount desert 35 kms altitude 100 kms from destination, we begin descent with around 20% fuel Pass over EagleStar outbound just before turning final Final facing EagleStar Flare Landed, chutes out, very effective breaking Back to EagleStar Re arming chutes Pluging the fuel line Transfering fuel Well it's fantastic, we flew 1637 kms and got 20% fuel left on landing!! Great job and we are exciting for the next flight!

The last flight from my Huge OPT SSTO seaplane: 1200 kms from Laythe north pole to Bone island - With the engine noise for JadeOfMaar

Bone Island - end and video Planting flag Refueling takes 65 dayss!! And the vid with the engine noise

Visiting Laythe After the first flight to the Pole we made a chart and name the islands 6 groups of islands - 2 East: Solomon and Polynesia and 1 Westt: CAribean -1north: North Hebrides, 1 South: South Hébrides and 1 in center: Center Islands there's also north and south pole not visible on pic Red star is the ditching site and red arrow is the flight through north pole to Bone island The crew will test the range and the climb and cruise procedure which are important as the higher we climb, the shrinker is the flight enveloppe. We are limited by low speed and low mach to avoid stall and high speed to avoid overheating and leaving lathe atmosphere Take off 140m/s Taking off heading North to cross the pole and and the heading will turn South after crossing Pitch 45° as the OPT engines give much more thrust with great acceleration. 45° is a good compromise to reach quickly high atmosphere while still accelerating. Through 11000m, pitch is set to 30° to accelerate quickly through sound barrier Through 16000 pitch is 20° At 20000M pitch is 5° to avoid leaving atmosphere and lower vertical speed to capture gently causing altitude at 30 kms Passing North pole heading 84°, thrust 2/3 heading 133° Less than 1 mn to be at heading 171, Thrust 1/3, 1100 kms from destination. 75% de carburant left . Mach 5.3 and1475m/s Slow climb to 33 kms altitude, 560 kms from landing At 156 kms, seeing bone island turning final final 110m/s, low thrust, ground is ascending and so do the vertical speed to avoid hard landing Short final 101m/s, thrust 1/15 On ground Video is following soon

Thank's for reply. I got a satellite in orbit with M700 and narrow band scanner. I had the same problem with the map, but i am going to look gain carefully to the wiki to see exactly how to proceed

Hello KSP 1.3, last Scansat version. I am on Laythe, looking for Ore. I can detect it on the big map, here high concentration 13%, but as soon as i launch the zoom map on the point i detect high concentration, even with" ressource overlay " selected on zoom map, i never see any Ore detection while pointing my mouse on it....What is wrong? Here is the pointer on the big map where we can see 13% where is the waypoint Area G6NFL7 Here is the zoom map with no indication of Ore concentration when pointing the waypoint or anywhere around

Continuation of my SSTO Seaplane adventure on Laythe

My adventure SSTO seaplane to Laythe continues

Now first flight of the Eaglestar to its next refueling spot on Laythe Refuelling before take off Eaglestar is also a "tanker" for Explorer. The explorer tanks contains only 5% of the Eaglestar Liquidfuel 6 big drillers in action Departing north, the thrust is blocked at 75%, Eaglestar being lighter because the satellite has been removed and Explorer is no more on the deck After take off we climb quickly at 310000m, the engines being the same as Explorer engine, we have seen it's the best range flying altitude Flyby wire passing through 11000m We are heading to an Ore spot on the next island we can see on the horizon In fact, approaching the spot I realize that we have still half tank full and i decide to steer to the North Pole where Ore concentration is 7%. You can see on the pics that nuclear engine have been light on, which is not willingly, and i cut them off quickly A new waypoint is set and we turn on it. It's very long and difficult to turn at this speed and altitude. At 90 kms from point we begin descent, Jool facing us In very long final we hardly see the ground At 1é kms from touch down we begin to see the floe Altitude 700m, Jool is going down, blue... We are going to be too long for landing but as we are stabilized and there is flat ground long ahead of us we continue landing Nearly on ground...it's not floe, it looks like kind of toundra... Taxiing back to our waypoint. Ground is very flat, easy to land and taxi Drillers out After tanks are full, we get outside to plant a flag And here is the vid of the flight Here is the plane , but be aware that you need 20 mods... https://kerbalx.com/gilflo/Laythe-EagleStar