lajoswinkler

I doubt these links would help. After all, asteroids in KSP have very different densities.

Velocity, that's a bielliptic transfer and it's probably the best approach for such missions, but I would't tweak the xenon tanks. That's cheating yourself. As some of you might've found out, Outer Planets mod has been updated and now contains a Titan-like satellite in the orbit around Sarnus called Tekto. Kron 3E will contain a Sarnus impactor and a Tekto lander. A daughter-project has been arranged by the Ministry of No Better Things To Do called Kaos and it will be used to probe Urlum and Neidon atmospheres while they're still under development by the OPM team. Kaos 1 has already been launched and is currently on a trajectory leading to reentry at the south pole of Urlum.

I'm not using Astronomer's pack (can't stand the inaccuracies on airless bodies), but Tekto looks very nice without it, too. Splendid. I will send a probe there ASAP.

This is insanity and I applaud it.

I had to do this.

Slate is rotating very slowly so it's almost perfectly tidally locked to Sarnus. It took a while to observe any analyze the whole surface. Not knowing about the biome map, I've decided to land on a dry river bed. Fuel leftovers were used for lowering the periapsis below the planet's surface. After several burns the lander touched the ground at almost 0.5 m/s. Later I've remembered you could see biomes so I've decided to use the rest of the fuel to hop from the riverbed to the tiny blue biome patch nearby. All the data shows that this area has something to do with hell. Heavy metal deposits, heat, earthquakes. Seismometer wants to escape, but with only 260 m/s left, this is impossible. Kerbals will have to land there one day.

I haven't seen BSOD for a looooong time. (win 7) Actually the system is extremely stable, uncomparable to any other I've ever used.

As in hazard-ish's case, DRE was to blame. I always use that mod, but I think DRE isn't compatible with OPM, at least not with Sarnus. The craft experiences enormous decceleration which turns on DRE's sound for high-G environment, and then some parts just break off because some parts that hold them together have lower G tolerances. Basically your craft will start disintegrating. It will not be complete, but you'll come from reentry speeds to Mach 1 or 2 in a few seconds even if you just skim the upper atmosphere. That renders aerobraking completely futile as you'll just sink into the planet, and it will happen on an ever decreasing speed so you'll effectively never going to reach the "surface". Sarnus needs a rehaul of its atmosphere. Maybe the black-limb-darkening-of-the-rings has a hint or two?

It's a crash landing so... I'd say it's a start. Thx, and thx for the tip about DeepFreeze. I didn't know that thing existed and I'm now considering to use it on missions to much more distant targets. Centrifuges are for 1-2 years of travel. Going to Urlum and beyond calls for something much more serious.

Kron 3D was launched towards Slate. Lander was pushed using a nuclear thermal module. Now it's in Slate's polar orbit, waiting further instructions.

That much?

When could we expect Sarnus' atmosphere to become aerobraking-friendly? What's with Urlum and Neidon? I've never sent anything there. If I am gonna send a manned mission so far away, I'll simply have to aerobrake. Too much fuel can be spared like that.

I think it would be much better to use a bielliptical transfer because Kerbin is relatively very close to Kerbol in comparison to Stelly. Using nuclear thermal rockets, it might be possible to launch this ship with a centrifuge there and return home. But before this, Sarnus mission has to be done, and by the time I do it, Urlum will get satellites. - - - Updated - - - Kron 3C probe was launched on a pretty tiny rocket, but as I went with ion engines, this was pretty straightforward. Target was Eeloo, now existing as the third satellite of Sarnus. This is a really small probe relying on one RTG unit and a decent battery. All the way to Jool it used solar panels which were jettisoned after that. TWR was decent enough to significantly lower the number of passes through periapses in order to break. I would use aerobraking, but Sarnus has a buggy atmosphere. That's one of the things which will delay the actual manned mission. The probe now rests in the creamy dirt of Eeloo. Next probe, Kron 3D, will land on Slate.

That's ok. The quality of this mod surpasses the occasional annoyance by the NaN error. Even though we now know KER+OPM combo is to blame, I'll continue using both simply because it's quite franky silly to plan mission to such distant places being totally blind about the vessel performance.

I don't want to believe that we won't get true color representation of the surface. Designers would be nuts not to do it. Very, very poor PR move.

Using English language rules, which decorate titles by capitalizing nouns (remnant from German), the title is: "Lord of the Rings". Acronym for this, in the strictest sense, would be LR, as the articles and prepositions can be dropped. However, they aren't in this case and they're all capitalized because this is not a title, but an acronym. So, LOTR.

I have the same problem and learned how to bypass it. After you finish playing KSP, quicksave the mission you want to resume. Then, when you start it the next time, don't go into tracking station. Go to VAB and launch anything, might've as well be a probe core. Then when you're on the launch pad, quickload. There are other paths, as well, but the point is to avoid normal loading of the vessel and load the actual scene. It should be fine then.

I've realized that the way to avoid NaN Kraken upon loading the vehicle in orbit around OPM planets is to use quickload. So every time I shut KSP down, I quicksave the game. Surprisingly, no error report is made after the NaN appears.

All you'd see (after you violate the fact a plane is something without thickness, and to see a line you need to make it thick, ultimatively converting it to a very slim plane itself) are lines. ____ __ ______________ _ _________ _______ It would be mighty confusing even if you subscribe (changing/still) colors to them. It's not a new idea, but the constrains are way too large for it to be interesting to enough people.

Ten megabytes was more than enough back then. There wasn't anything an average Joe could fit on such disc that would take that much space, and there certainly wasn't anything he could use that would require more processing power. For the software and data back then, those storages were perfectly fine, just like 20 GB discs were fine for the time when people were having trouble downloading quality MP3 files and 650 MB AVI movies were spread around on CDs. Smartphones are grossly more powerful than the Apollo computer. They have processing capacities comparable to late 90s quality PCs. Apollo guidance computer is weaker than a simple scientific calculator, and I'm not talking about the ones with graphical interface and data plotting. Luckily for the astronauts, that's pretty much all you need for a decently safe trip.

Those debates are what makes up The Science Labs, dude. Actually, it's 5.5. Lower thrusting can be done with attenuated RCS system at precision mode.

Nobody can be afraid of this cute thing.

I think you'll see that role was actually played by Croatia, which is evident by the fact of its look today. At one point during the history, it was almost completely consumed by the Ottoman Empire, but it withstood the attacks as a buffer zone between the east and the west.

I agree, it would be very cool to have such highly inclined satellites. As Urlum is a gas giant on which you can't land, its rotation is not something which could be changed. A texture could be made so that it looks as if the planet is standing on its side and the rotation could be set to zero (or tidal locked to Kerbol; can't wrap my head around this at the moment). Rings could be set at high inclination, as well as the orbits of the satellites. Urlum's year is a long time so this is a plausible solution.

This is a decent analogue because you have an electric monopole (rod) and an object (water droplet) which can act like a charged object because of electrical influence. Magnets can't do this because they're dipoles. It's something completely different and including them into the discussion about orbits just leads to huge confusion.