Urben

Hello, I'm sorry I can not give many details on this bug, but when I use this part on small probes, it kind of randomly explodes. When F3 is pressed, it claims "due overheating", but neither it is in hot enviroment nor if it does it is not protected by aerodynamic shells or heatshields. I'm encountering this SOMETIMES when launching/aerobreaking in atmospheres and physicwarp in orbits. Showing the temperature (F11) indicates no heat issue at all.

Hi, Just a quick one. It would be really cool if chutes had the same connection points like engines. When you put a part ontop of a chute, it gets enclosed like engines. If this connection is decoupled, the enclosure gets pushed away like they do on engines. This way one can put a chute on alternative places on the rocket if the top is already otherwise used and two radial chutes are overkill. Thats all. Thanks, bye-

Gonna request one too. A IVA picture of my LISA interferometer (there is a thread in the Spacecraft Exchange) Picture: https://i.imgur.com/h6kMyqS.jpg Not sure what you could do with it, but Id like to see some deepth of field. The visible part of the arm on the left half of the photo is about 80m long.

I could put three satellites on the same orbit but in 120 orbit-degrees (or how thats called) together. But you wouldnt see them all at once and they have to do one full spin per Kerbin orbit (like the IRL moon does). But that doesnt happen without plugins. And if you put them like 1km to each other, they wont stay like this since parallel orbits dont exist. tl;dr: they dont face each other the same way all the time if not conected.

It can be easily enlarged! Maybe this will happen someday..

Dang there goes my entire dronebay with a dozen of these to the trash. Thanks, good to know.

Hello, I have this little guy here: https://i.imgur.com/tlLRO7P.jpg And no matter what I do, the ship doesnt rotate. Pressing a button doesnt even drain electricity. The OKTO2 does drain electricity, but thats it. The engine works too. I use the current KSP steam version with a Windows machine. Running on 32bit ot 64bit doesnt seem to change anything. Did I missed a new change which modules have SAS?

A little push with a picture which shows how the girders were placed: Since the girders have the dice-like connector in the middle, I could stack them with RCS tanks and ports in between them. Together with a computer on the top of the stack it was pretty easy to align them to each other. Once the work was done the four small RCS parts were disconnected and the computer did the same with sepratrons. Too bad I have a dozen pieces of junk orbiting very near of LISA. Since it has no engines I have to clean the space somehow later...

I've finally finished something I worked on for a long time and needed some tries. It's a replica of the gravitation wave detector LISA! You don’t know what that is? Click here. The first try didn’t worked. The second one neither. But on the third run with some know how I've finally managed it! I had a bit troubles at doing the final connection of the third satellite because the arms are no matter what never perfectly aligned. But with some pushing and twirling both docking ports connected to the construction. It's now under some stress but who cares! It took 3 starts for the satellites and 3 more starts for all the girders. I also made a vessel which realigned some girders and refilled MonoP. Its manned and has three large dockingports on each satellite so it could be upgraded to a space station. It's mass is about 56 tons. Arm lengh comparison: (distance satellite-to-satellite) Real-life LISA: 5.000.000.000 meters (almost ten times of the Moon orbit diameter) canceled (too expensive) Real-life eLISA: 1.000.000.000 meters (more than 40 times of the Mun orbit diameter) My first LISA: 40 meters (12 girders) canceled (faulty design) My second LISA: 360 meters (108 girders) canceled (too big for KSP) My third LISA: 100 meters (30 girders) finished! Images (click to expand!) ^shown from above ^focused on one satellite ^last docking (but not the last try ) ^IVA, if you look closely, the right one isnt connected right (yet) ^IVA zoomed on one satellite Thats it. Comments please! Was alot of work. Thanks NavyFish for the docking Plugin!

That makes sense... What if I put the apoapsis at the outside of Kerbins orbit? So the rendevouz at the crossing cant be parallel?

Well I am not trying to precalculate the whole mission, I will see how it will do. Once Im entering the Kerbin SOI Ill do some burns to get as close as possible. Im sure this will cost only about 100dV each time.

Hi there, I am playing career at the moment and I try to get to the low-Kerbol (Sun) orbit. I dont have yet unlocked the atomic engine or the ion engine. Not even the mainsail engine, so getting much fuel out of Kerbin is quite hard. I tried some ways to solve this quest. A gravity assist on eve saved som dV but its not enough. My idea now is to do multiple break maneuvers on Kerbin to lower my speed while orbiting the sun. I am about to try that, but maybe some guys here have some tips to share? Or is it even impossible?

Began Career the first time some days ago... Jeb crashed on Mun and needed a smaal escape vehicle. Ive sent him one. Looks like he has fun! He doesnt even use its seatbelt! EDIT: Just some days ago he was exploring the surface with a very small rover. He had three of them. All of them ran something between 5-20km until they broke... I think Ill use hover designs for the next tries.

Sorry for letting you waiting for so long Just installed the update after some hollidays and noticed the massive FPS increase! Now on 3-4FPS instead of 1. That means: 300-400% more motivation! The refilling of the Mono Prop was a long and anoying task. There are just so many containers! But every free space was filled with this stuff. Should be more than 10k units now! We have undocked the ship and let it crash into Kerbin. No big deal. It was burning time now! After burning all our fuel for the orbit we had to deal with a new problem: Not enough fuel! So... Next Submission! A quick design was made and sent to LISA. Weve pumped the fuel into the three empty containers near the engines and got rid of this ship, too. After the next burning the final construction orbit was finally reached: Its just a small push to get LISA out of the SOI of Kerbin or its just another small push to get the Kerbonaut back to the surface. Pretty isnt it?

Thats a nice idea! I will do that with Bilbas Kerman when I bring him back to the surface.

This is awesome, thanks! Ill add the gif to some posts

Yep 1FPS, takes about 3 minutes to refill a empty RCS tank, so thats why I didnt finished the refilling yet. But there are only the satellites to do. I think the framerate will increase abit once the complexity decreases. If I would be the engine, I would love to calculate 36 girders in a row other than as free bouncing ends. The posted pics are all individual pics I have, you might add the description under them to the animation if you want. But it would be super cool Thanks!

Now let me present you the assembly plan! Thats it for first. You know what is coming up to you in the next updates, so keep lurking!

Update! We can't say we have done much work the last days, but we are doing some steps forward! Our checks showed us that ~3000 units of mono-prop. need to be refilled. So we have sent something to the construction place to do that. It takes some time to refill several dozens of RCS fuel tanks. We didnt finished this step jet, but it will be done in the near future. Meanwhile the whole construction was rotated to its final position. From now on, it will remain like this for the whole main assembly. Right before the assembly starts, we will change its orbital properties. For doing so we only need to trust forward. But we will come back later to that point.

Here we go, we have added the last two carriers! Now whats on the list... Yea, refilling the mono-pro. and modify the orbit. Alright! Thats what you will see in the next update. And an accurate plan for the assembling. Now at 1FPS

As promised, weve checked the weird strut connectors. We used the bot for this task. After docking, our kerbonaut Bilbas Kerman gone for a EVA and took a closer look. The result is, everything seems to work just perfect here. No need for replacement! So back with him, back with the bot and back to the routine: Adding the fourth girder carrier. We had some trouble to connect the carrier, some mono-prop was wasted. No big deal. Sidenote: working with 5 times slower ingame time and ~2-3FPS now. But it wont stop me!

Thanks mate! You have to stay until I begin the actual assembling Now what have we done today... Lemme show you! After recognizing the space between the dockingports for the carriers is too small, we had the idea to use the backup ports at the bottom. Well - we did not done that. The reason is, the carriers are too wide for this position. We have to use dockingports which are positioned in a tri-symmetry. But dont worry, we came up with a Plan C! The LISA satellites are using the same sized ports. And they are much thinner. Now what we did, is tu redocked the carriers and the sattelites one level downwards. This action took some monoprop' and we have transferred everything we had left in the docked backupmodule (which was transporting the satellites and the bot in the first place). After this we were able to finally get rid of this thing. We raised the throttle of its engine a lil bit and undocked it. Well bye bye. There it goes... It still had ~1500 litres of fuel (Liqu. + Oxy.). But we didn't needed it. After it was out of sight, we continued with our work. It may head its way to duna or something like this. Who knows? The next thing we did is to connect a third girder carrier. We now have the half of them. Oh and weve noticed a possible problem. The carrier #2 have some wrong placed strut connectors. This may happened because of the construction we had put on there to reduce the wobble at the launch. Now the next carriers wont have this phenomenon, but it could make trouble at connecting them. We will do some tests next time. If it is a problem, we will replace the 8 girders. We will need a sub mission anyways to refill the mono-prop.

Okay Ive added another girder carrier. As expected, the strut connectors generating much debris. After the docking Ive noticed the sticky girders of the first carrier are acting normal now. Looks like a reload works. Thats good. So I dont need these things! Another Upgrade is a small engine between the carrier and the launch-vehicle. But it looks like the space between the first three and the second three docking ports is too small. I think we have to use the backups ports at the bottom. But there are 4 medium sized ports, not three... I could add one carrier more as planned. The lag is hell already but who cares? For science! C ya

After messing up everything (loaded a quicksave of dozen ingame-years ago), I just restarted the mission and changed some design details. Early in the morning, the main module began its journey to the orbit. But nothing of it will follow LISA to the Kerbol orbit once its builded. Well maybe nothing but some litres of monopropellant. It is the core of the orbital construction area. EDIT: Oh no Im wrong, we have added the girders with RCS port to it! They will be part of LISA. We could need these thing to put the final parts of the triangle together. We had no troubles at the launch, and brought it to a 120km circular orbit. The next module is the engine module. It will bring the construction to a very elliptical, nearly Kerbin leaving orbit ... later. Then we brought operational equpiment to the place: the three LISA satellites and the construction bot. It looks a bit different compared to the first pictures, but should now work even better. This docking was a bit trickier. The angle of the satellites have to be right, otherwise the construction would end into a huge failure. Just like LISA Mk1. And the ion engines need to point to the same direction as the engine module. Because once LISA is build, we dont want to rotate LISA for a Kerbin-leaving trust. As I mentioned, every unnecessary rotation might rip everything apart. After connecting the satellites to the station, Weve docked the whole transporter to one of the backup-dockingports. There is plenty fuel left in this thing, so we might need it later. Then, the bot was undocked and put on its final parking position on the top of the control module. Some fuel transport was done after that. The last thing we did was to bring the first girder carrier to the station. Five other will follow some time later. It was a bit tricky to dock it, so we docked the station to the carrier instead. Looks like we cant change that fact with the next carriers. But weve noticed three of the girders stuck to others. We will try to fix that with the construction bot and might add some strut connectors to the next carriers. We did that at LISA Mk1, but it generated much debris, so we tried it without it this time. Well, now we know it's useful. If the fixing fails, we will bring three more girders to the station. All goes to plan...

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