Chazz Ulric

Hello, I am very new to Kerbal and just getting started in Career mode. I have a interest in SSTO's and found this mod and gave it a try I am not far enough along in the tech tree for it but I have looked at it in sand box mode. The SSTO I loaded up is the Atari MK3, problem is I cannot figure what the right order is for the engines to get it up into orbit. I know the whole 45 deg thing and all that but the engines part confuses me "auto switching, ram jet, turbo jet? Also the plane starts to flip backwards at a certain altitude. I have looked all over youtube for a tutorial on getting an OPT space plane into orbit (at least the OPT stock Atari plane) but have found none. I really would like to know how I work those engines to get into orbit and avoid burn outs and flip outs. Could somebody give me an assist? Please talk slow as if speaking to a child

LOL no I was not orbiting the Sun I was orbiting around Kerbal the planet, I just happend to be on the side facing the Sun.

Hello all! Just found this neat program about a week ago played the demo watched some Scott Manley vids and decided to purchase the full program. I found some mods and also have installed them 1 of which is called Command Center the 1 you can have a career in sand box mode. I chose the mission to put a Comm Sat into orbit within a certain orbit I believe it was a max of 200 thousand give or take and a min of 189 thou give or take, the budget was 50000. I was able to build it and get it into orbit for about 28000. So after feeling like I had just made fire my Sat was orbiting for about 30 mins and I was looking at it.. admiring it.. and suddenly...it exploded right before my very eyes. I received a message that said my Sat had overheated WUH?! It only had the stuff on it that the mission had required..well I also put a thermometer on it but that was all, last time I checked the temp it was orbiting on the Sun side of the planet and it had a temp of -40 that was about 5 mins before BOOM time. The orbit was also set along the mission parameters, I made budget, and received an increase. Right now all I can do is scratch my head about what went wrong any opinions?