lajoswinkler

Not my idea, but I made a way better (HD) version. http://vmashup.com/96wagbf7

I'm at 1038 so if I manage to reach 1099, I'll jump from 2 to 4 light green bars on the list. Oh deer.

Let me just post these here. So yeah, I've managed to put a Mk2 SSTO plane using two turbojet engines and one R.A.P.I.E.R. engine and it delivered a tiny satellite and there was fuel left for reentry and some atmospheric flight. Deadly Reentry was too harsh so the plane broke up on the return home, but Valentina and Jebediah survived when their cockpit parachuted down into the ocean. This is my second SSTO, the first being made hours before. I've never tried to sit down and make such a vessel. So if I made it, anyone can.

My thoughts exactly.

Kerbol behaves like a point energy source. The glowing ball is just for looks. Therefore if a planetary body obscures part of that ball, nothing happens, but as soon as the center point of Kerbol gets obscured, flare is gone and so is your energy source. Granted, there are exceptions to this rule which apply when the "shadow mesh" of the bodies doesn't match the terrain mesh. Bop is a perfect example.

It depends. If you want to play the game properly and you're clipping together few tanks in one, that's cheating. If you're gonna slightly clip a sepratron so that it looks aesthetically and aerodynamically pleasing, then it's not. Or let's say if you clip stuff inside hollow things. Why not? Obviously there's a gray zone, but I use clipping for aesthetics. Otherwise I could make a monster ship the size of a suitcase, go to Eve, return to orbit, visit depths of Jool, pick up a sample from Eeloo, land on Moho's polar hole and return home.

No, I rely on Oberth effect and aerobraking. Never had any related problems. I'm not gonna use ion engines for anything larger than probes, I'm not that nutty.

That noun is a perfectly fine one. Male ..., female .... ... chromosomes. Oh well...

Now that we have radiative heating and Kerbol is finally a dangerous place to go near, it would be interesting to have a deployable part capable of protecting the vessel for some time. Remember this underrated movie? Something lightweight and shiny. Procedural Parts' can make the looks, but the function does not exist.

They are so pretty. I like tits so much!

Indeed, smaller ones are easier to flip, but that's because you get used to launching heavier payloads.

I'm sick of people misusing this term. Necroposting means bringing back threads with USELESS content. If one has some decent new information that would be useful for others, it's not necroposting. I don't know who started misusing the term, but I get a small seizure when someone posts something useful and there's a bunch of kids screaming: "NECRO!!1!!OMG1BBQ1!"

You don't need more than one LV-N engine. This ship had an equivalent of 4 LV-N engines. TWR was initially below 0.05 I think. And it went 2 times farther than Jool. I suppose you're running sandbox mode. To reach Duna you don't even need nuclear thermal propulsion because delta v required for the whole trip is relatively tiny compared to going to Moho. Space ships do not need high TWR values. 0.1 is more than enough.

Yeah, there is a balance, but it's always better if it's shifted towards realism. KSP does exactly that.

If I recall correctly, it was KurtJMac. I was actually looking for rocket simulators on Google and I came across one of his videos. Got hooked up instantly because I always wanted a game like this.

I don't really understand the fuss about it. The more realism the better - unless realism means insanity, heavy calculus and pulling your hair. And it doesn't. KSP is still fun enough. If your planes don't work because they look like they came from a Tim Burton's movie, then don't play KSP. If your rockets explode during ascent because they overheat due to your 5 G acceleration, don't play KSP. I had some minor adjustments with the way I fly things, but that's it.

Thank you, Random Tank, for checking those values. The forum software didn't warned me of any new posts here, so I didn't update the original post. Now it's done.

Reliving the early space exploration.

Magnesium is Mg. Meganewton is MN and millinewton is mN.

Kron 4 will require an enormous heatshield, at least 8 m in diameter, so here's one of the Kerbal scientists examining the newly made one that just got shipped to KSC in pieces. It was assembled by some 50 Kerbals.

No wonder he has a trollface avatar.

Probably this. To hear this in a large cathedral would be a superb experience.

Future crew is watching an experimental ship launch.

The ship has been launched into a circular equatorial orbit at 165 km. Future crew has gathered on the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building to watch the fireworks. This test ship will serve as an experimental station, but one day it might be the very thing launched towards Urlum. It lacks propulsion and the only way to generate power is using solar panels.

How do you make those nice pictures? Are you a wizard? o_°