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The Challenge: Plant a flag on this planet, Proxima Centauri! Its the nearest real possibly habitable planet located near Alpha Centauri, about 4 lightyears distance which is made accessible by Alternatively use Centauri Dreams Updated to: https://www.dropbox.com/s/spyd3qnc6ppnocn/CentauriDreams.zip?dl=0 Although Alpha Centauri is our closest neirbour, traveling 4 light years though the interstellar medium might be further than you think The main constraint would be that FTL drives are not allowed, but you are allowed to use any slower than light (STL) engine from KSPI Extended, Far Future or Photon Sailor If you want to chat about the Interstellar challange you can do it at our KSP Interstellar Discord Server like KSPI-E Daedalus engine and/or magnetic nozzle. Here is an simple example : Here is a more advanced example For more info see: The alternative, travel by photon sail Preferred method of proof would be video. The preferred method of win is to be the fastest, but style also plays a large role Entry Player Proof Duration Max Speed Launch Mass Dry Mass Wet Mass Part count Cost DeltaV 3-1-2017 @Nansuchao youtube 690 y ? 61.152 t 129 t 439 t 161 41.963.000 ? 5-3-2017 @superdavekerman imgur 299 y 330d 1.027.340 m/s 9.068 t 129 108 t 129 13.361.780 2,767,705 3-4-2017 @proteasome imgur 69 y 91 d 4,164,000 m/s 4,123 t 68 4,123 t 68 1.236.987.000 0,165,752 9-12-2019 @pmborg youtube part 1, 2 ,3 26 y 23d 119,755,559 m/s 94.705 t 12,977 t 553,788 t 99 4,451,096,064 142 M 19-4-2021 @Zapataz youtube 17 y 149,000,000 m/s ? 59 t 80 t 25 11,543,300 ? 14-11-2021 @GenerallyCompetent imgur 13 y 0.783c 838,198 t 270,554 t 383,896 t 57 7,469,861 275 M unofficial entry: Slow Boats in style Another unofficial entry: Not an entry but it does show how to buid your insterstellar craft in space

I used the KSPI mod with 1.4.1 it worked very well until I used the warp drive. I charged it and activated it at 0.1c and it worked fine, the real issue was when I set it to 1c. For some reason the moment I set it to 1c it got completely destroyed. I also used another warp drive mod (warp drive standalone) and it had this problem as well. Is there some kind of limit now that I didn't know about? Whats going on? PS: I have a recording of it happening if you want me to show you

I am experiencing really strange behavior from MechJeb, RemoteTech and KSPI modules at the same time. This is what happens: I spawn a cargo ssto and fly to the station in orbit. Dock with station and transfer cargo. Build a station module with EL dockyard and dock it to the station. Everything is working without any problems. Undock ssto. RemoteTech reports N/A instead of local control for ssto(station has local control). Both vessels have crew that can fly them. Orient ssto retrograde and execute deorbit burn. Start time warp(focus on ssto). When separation between station and ssto becomes 12.5km(physics range??) and station unloades, some strange things happen to ssto: KSPI reactor(nuclear salt reactor) stops working. Reactor control window reads active but no fuel is consumed and no power is produced. MechJeb's SmartASS module starts orienting vessel RAD+ regardless of the setting. SAS turns itself off, although rapid consecutive clicks will turn SAS button eventually. MechJeb is completely turned off, SmartASS is off. I have control over the ssto and can orient it manually or using SAS, when it is on. But no power is generated and mechjeb becomes useless. Although 3 mods are affected at the same time, I believe it is not the fault of any one of them, but an underlying problem, which I am trying to identify. Here is the log file, in case someone knows how to troubleshoot it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzaLdTtFg_piZzZEcklNZjd2LTQ And here is list of mods:

Yay! the IXS Enterprise is a reality! I made this from scratch. I am pretty sure people have made this already, but I wanted to make my own. mods: Mechjeb 2.0 and KSPI-E. Any questions? Just ask. You may need to add a few fuel canisters. I left them out so you could do a little Work for yourself. You can use my craft however you like, just credit me. Any questions? just ask! https://ibb.co/d7W6pa https://ibb.co/dEgT2v https://ibb.co/cEHe9a Craft File

Hey, I recently installed KSPI-E. It is a great mod, but ever since the newest update, it has asked to update three times every time I launch the game. Here is the mod's link, I don't know if this is just me or a glitch. I would appreciate any help!

Hello all, So I've been messing around with a lot of Space Planes; I've got the Mk2 expansion and starlion industries upgrade with KSPI. One thing the pack is majorly missing is atmosphere processing. I've been wondering if there's a way to make a separate part that can convert atmosphere intake (intake atm) to a gas/liquid fuel much like the stock KSPI processors, but not acting as it's own intake. ideally it would use the ratio of gasses in the current atmosphere and same charge-output ratios as the processors. the point of this is the have in inline processor hooked up to a few streamline standard intakes to use with KSPI and other engines. cuts down on part count, drag, and weight, and makes it more realistic and pretty. tl;dr i want a part to be an inline atmosphere processor, but not an intake, that can convert from intakeATM to other gasses. I've tried cut-paste code from the processors, but the KSPI setup is far beyond me. [EDIT] the code in the .cfg file seems to refer to another module somewhere else, or perhaps something in a DLL file. also, sorry, i wasn't clear that this was a request for said part.

so, anybody who uses KSPI knows the pain of waste heat, and nuclear engine users know all about the melting; and don't forget about those high performance scram-jets that get redder than the atmospheric burn around your ship. There are a few good radiator packs out there, but i find they're not very... effective. I'm attempting to make a system that uses electricity (or MW at a higher level), radiators, and air vents, to do high performance cooling for engines, reactors, etc. obviously getting rid of waste heat as well. working on implementing the following parts: - An Engine precooler that also converts physical heat (from a directly attached engine) into waste heat. useful for atmospheric nozzles/turbojets. (1.25, 2.5, mk2. requires electricity.) - A Heat Pump that sucks up heat and waste heat, and redirects it to radiators. (it cools the attached parts significantly, and subtracts a constant amount of waste heat while running. heat will be converted to waste heat. (1.25, 2.5, 3.75) requires MW or eqiv charge)(requires radiators attached to part to run) - A powered vent (basically an engine with no thrust) that cools the attached part and subtracts waste heat depending on the temperature and amount of air added. ideally connected to a precooler and air intake. (0.625(rear), 1.25(rear and inline), mk2(inline). would have two models for 1.25/mk2; one requiring electric charge, one with waaay more power that requires MW (it might have an KSPI arc-jet RCS that only works with atmosphere.). both would count as radiators. these are the missing parts for making reliable heavy SSTO's, or anything with a powerful hot engine. I'm totally imagining these parts just using the stock squad models (and the mk2's expansions precooler) Right now this is no more than jumbled text in a cfg file using stock fuel tanks for parts... Btw, I put this under development because i very well intend to do this myself one i figure out how. any and all help/direction appreciated.

I have *ahem* little problem - I can't seem to return from space without exploding. My 67 ton spaceplane contains antimatter - hence my title - so explosions are deadly for everything below me too, turning DRE into F Extreme DRE I have 4 large airbrakes, but they are too weak up high, and they cant slow down me. At first parts at sides are overheating and exploding, but later, when I lose all parts at sides (which means doom, as I cant land safely anymore) my spaceshop folds like paper at 10 G destroying me and my container with ~1 kg of antimatter (isn't that around 9*(10^16) joules of fiery doom?) Space ship core has radius of 2.5 meters. Here is spaceship: http://www114.zippyshare.com/v/2yzjT14B/file.html