Testing My Wits! (Challenge Me!)

[areutheman]

I've obtained over 150+ hours with kerbal and have grown weary of challenging myself so I want to open myself up to your challenges! Please nothing to ridiculous or broad. Example: Get a satellite to orbit each planet, or build a space station in low orbit around the sun.

Thanks!

[Othuyeg]

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/57197-The-Ultimate-Jool-5-Challenge-land-Kerbals-on-all-moons-and-return-in-one-big-mission

[Mr Tegu]

Build a ship I can't blow up.

[Laie]

Return from low Laythe orbit to Kerbin on less than 700m/s. They say it's possible when using a Tylo gravity assist.

A straight return from Laythe costs about 1100m/s including circularization at home; I guess that Tylo could be milked for more than 400m/s, but I don't know.

[Robotengineer]

Get a satellite into orbit around each planet in one launch.

[Lhathron the Elf]

Here's something I tried once: fly a manned craft to the Mun with a bunch of solar panels. Try to fly as close to the Munar surface as you can to break off the solar panels but not any other part of the ship. It's pretty fun, especially with a C7 Mk1 cockpit and doing it from IVA mode.

[Jean Deaux]

There's plenty of existing challenges posted, a few minutes of reading could yield some new things to test yourself with.

[FleshJeb]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/images1.vat19.com/princess-bride-pint-glasses/princess-bride-pint-glass-iocane.jpg

Here's something I tried once: fly a manned craft to the Mun with a bunch of solar panels. Try to fly as close to the Munar surface as you can to break off the solar panels but not any other part of the ship. It's pretty fun, especially with a C7 Mk1 cockpit and doing it from IVA mode.

Well, now I know what I have to try tonight...you jerk ;-P

Easy Mode: Gigantors

Hard Mode: OX-4L

Inconceivable Mode: OX-STAT

[bakanando]

You should post your own achievements before, so we don't mention something you've done already.

Also, Eve Rocks challenge

[zekes]

I've obtained over 150+ hours with kerbal and have grown weary of challenging myself so I want to open myself up to your challenges! Please nothing to ridiculous or broad. Example: Get a satellite to orbit each planet, or build a space station in low orbit around the sun.

Thanks!

Build a shuttle by NOT using the Mk-3 parts. It must be realistic (IE 2 OMS, 3 SSME, 2 SRB)

[RAINCRAFTER]

Do Laie's challenge, go to Eve and back!

[TheLongRun]

http://puu.sh/gbVdo/24f7f03f49.jpg

[Recognize-Me-]

I've obtained over 150+ hours with kerbal

Not to be mean but that's really not that much. I've put in over 1500+ hours. In fact I've put in exactly 1602 hours. Just saying

And the challenge to break off solar panels on the surface of the mun while doing a super low orbit pass sounds like a huge challenge. Sounds like fun!

Edited February 25, 2015 by Recognize-Me-

[EdFred]

Depart Eve's surface from less than 100MSL, and obtain at least a 100km x 100km orbit.

Oh, and you need to do it with the 4 Kerbal Hitch-Hiker module as your ascent vehicle core. No roving allowed.

[ihtoit]

here's a challenge: build a life size sculpture of Arnold Schwarzenegger using warm coleslaw.

Oh, you meant a *Kerbal* challenge?

Okay, Mister Newbie. I have a challenge for you. Go here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/71066-Scenario-Challenge-Starflight-One-The-Tube-Rescue

I ran this challenge through in 11 *real* hours: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/71068-Starflight-One-The-Tube-Rescue

Basically, you've got all the mods and other stuff you need for the scenario which puts you in overall charge of the mission to rescue half a dozen Kerbals from a broken space station before it kisses the sun.

And you've got thirty game-days to do it in. Because after that amount of time, the station is vapour.

[SpenSpaceCorp]

I CHALLENGE YOU TO:

make your own challenge for yourself! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Mr. Speed]

I have had this idea for a challenge for a while, and I might make it an actual challenge but so far I have been too lazy to create one.

The idea is to jump a plane powered only by turbojets into a suborbital trajectory and then push it into a stable orbit using a ship already in orbit.

without using docking ports or a claw.

It is not easy and it took me many tries, but I finally got it done yesterday.

I managed to jump a plane into a roughly 100 by 30 km orbit, and i had a ship waiting at my station at 175 km. the rendezvous was around 70km but I got as low as 57km before I pushed the jet to an apoapsis of 250km. then I just had to wait for apoapsis to make a final push to raise my periapsis to 80+km.

A atmosphere rendezvous can give you quite the adrenaline rush!

tips: depending on the pusher vehicle's initial orbit you might need a lot of delta V to get an encounter, and the higher the jet jumps, the more time you have for an encounter.

[MarvinKitFox]

Want a challenge? Ok, lets start easy and simple.

Plant a flag on EVE, anywhere on the sealevel shoreline, and return Kerbin.

Do it using only one launch from Kerbin, no outside assistance. (no refuels from previous launches, etc)

p.s.

This is just about the absolute pinnacle of my own achievement....

Edited March 3, 2015 by MarvinKitFox

[EdFred]

Want a challenge? Ok, lets start easy and simple.

Plant a flag on EVE, anywhere on the sealevel shoreline, and return Kerbin.

Do it using only one launch from Kerbin, no outside assistance. (no refuels from previous launches, etc)

p.s.

This is just about the absolute pinnacle of my own achievement....

Well, one could land at the highest elevation on Eve, rover alllllll the way to sea level, plant the flag, and rover back, saving themselves a bunch of dV. Which is why I made the stipulations in post #14.

[Right]

Return from low Laythe orbit to Kerbin on less than 700m/s. They say it's possible when using a Tylo gravity assist.

A straight return from Laythe costs about 1100m/s including circularization at home; I guess that Tylo could be milked for more than 400m/s, but I don't know.

I actually did this for the Laythe capitalism challenge. I had to edit the persistent file to increase the patched conics limit. The horrible part about this is mentalizing and warping to a point where 2 (or in my case 3) different transfer windows line up. First, the optimal Laythe>Tylo angle to prograde, then the optimal Tylo>Kerbin angle to prograde. Its less difficult with a circular orbit, but also less efficient. My low laythe orbit was achieved with only a jet engine, and maybe 5 dV of rocket fuel. This grants you a respectably high apoapsis, but then you need to sync a 3rd transfer window to burn at the Laythe periapsis.

However, getting to Kerbin from a low Laythe circular orbit ~60k with only 700dV sounds beyond reach. As I think you suggested, it could be possible orbiting Jool for several years getting several carefully plotted gravity assists from the moons. Sounds like a real headache lol. Someone should try!

[Laie]

(Return from low Laythe orbit to Kerbin on less than 700m/s. )

I actually did this for the Laythe capitalism challenge. [...]However, getting to Kerbin from a low Laythe circular orbit ~60k with only 700dV sounds beyond reach.

Low Laythe -> Tylo encounter should be like 500m/s. Tylo is heavy and you can get in really close; I think it should be possible to return to Kerbin on the gravity assist alone, needing perhaps another 50m/s for course corrections. You need to get it just right after all.

Then again, Laythe is just as heavy and appears to be smaller; may well be that you can get just as close to the center of gravity as with Tylo. Leaving Laythe so that you make two orbits while Laythe makes three before you meet again will be easy (and should pose no risk from Vall); question is, how much of a kick will it give you. I have no idea.

[jake9039]

get to space using only launch escape systems