SpaceplaneAddict Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 4 hours ago, Randazzo said: Well, I'll be dipped. Are these recent changes, or did I imagine up rules for myself? Made up rules probably, I don't see any OP changes lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boolybooly Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 Congratulations to... ECarinae Advanced Pilot Precision Award with SP-M. Randazzo Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with Kestrel III. Doctor Mandarb Advanced Pilot Precision Award with SSTO-MKIII. EvermoreAlpaca - Advanced Pilot Precision Award with Snack Delivery SSTO (minimalist record holder 2.140t). stewis Utilitarial Commendation (45t), Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with SSTO 1. ... for completing the K-Prize successfully. Thanks all for your mission reports and welcome (back) to the K-Prize party guest list aka roll of honour. ihtoit, thanks for your mission report. Just so you know, in case you didnt, refuelling is a gatecrasher event, see rules on first page first post, also a complete mission usually involves a landing / attempt! So since the mission wasnt complete I thought you were sharing R&D, say if you want that linked as a gatecrasher. If you intend to complete the mission then I will link that as and when. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewis Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 (edited) One last space plane (yes I am addicted to KSP) this one can move 110t to 80km orbit and rendezvous with my space station with some fuel to spare. This one wasn't really fun to fly home especially between 40km and 30km until moving some fuel to the front to balance the craft out. Total costs of fuel to orbit with max payload is 46,000. (total cost is 293,000). Don't think I will be building anything bigger although its great to fly and handles really well at lower altitudes. Also the craft files are below: SSTO CRAFT FILES Edited January 15, 2016 by stewis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihtoit Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 11 hours ago, boolybooly said: Congratulations to... ECarinae Advanced Pilot Precision Award with SP-M. Randazzo Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with Kestrel III. Doctor Mandarb Advanced Pilot Precision Award with SSTO-MKIII. EvermoreAlpaca - Advanced Pilot Precision Award with Snack Delivery SSTO (minimalist record holder 2.140t). stewis Utilitarial Commendation (45t), Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with SSTO 1. ... for completing the K-Prize successfully. Thanks all for your mission reports and welcome (back) to the K-Prize party guest list aka roll of honour. ihtoit, thanks for your mission report. Just so you know, in case you didnt, refuelling is a gatecrasher event, see rules on first page first post, also a complete mission usually involves a landing / attempt! So since the mission wasnt complete I thought you were sharing R&D, say if you want that linked as a gatecrasher. If you intend to complete the mission then I will link that as and when. sure, link me as a gatecrasher for now, until I get landed. I might even do something spectacular like land on Minmus, now I've got a full tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maceemiller Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 (edited) OK, so as far as Im concerned I did it!! There are a few pictures to follow with a brief description. Should @boolybooly disagree with anything I will remove the badge from my signature. Other than that I'm over the Mun (so to speak). I've only been into planes for a little while so to me this achievement is huge This is Kerbitious V.2 on the runway ready for take off......... Up, up and away......a step into the unknown....(for me anyway!) Making an orbit...... Made it into orbit! Now (for me) the hard part......landing...... Coming in steady......steady...... Had NO idea what happened but ended up in a flat spin, burned off all my remaining dV, just made it over the mountains on the KSC approach but landed intact. I could send out a refueling rover so I believe I've achieved the challenge. It was great fun anyway Edited January 16, 2016 by maceemiller name change Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicFireCaster Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Well here is it i have some other ssto's but i decided to make this new one to do the challenge: Nailed it easily, very fun to fly craft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RA3236 Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 (edited) I have Vens Stock Revamp, but I don't want to uninstall it for this challenge. What should I do? Forget about it. Edited January 17, 2016 by RA3236 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manni01 Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I managed to build a slightly bigger ssto that can get to duna. The mission video should have all my maneuvers. Nothing really special about this class other than it has some science equipment on it which I used to almost finish my tech tree (one away) in my career save. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForScience6686 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 (edited) My first challenge submission. This is what I call the Stingray. It has actually flown 5 missions to orbit after its initial build. It is based at the island airbase where I have a mining and fueling setup. I would say landing this thing at the island with 2 other craft and the immense lag deserves a medal. It ended up broken after this mission, the wings refused to stay on when attempting to take off again. Edited January 21, 2016 by ForScience6686 I didn't know how to post pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boolybooly Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 And once again it is my great privilege to announce the winners of the prestigious and highly sought after K-Prize. Congratulations to ... manni01 - Expeditionary Astrokerbal Distinction (Duna), Advanced Pilot Precision Award with SSTO Sunder. stewis - Utilitarial Commendation (110t), Advanced Pilot Precision Award with SSTO2. macceemiller with Kerbitious V.2. MagicFireCaster Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with FRC-P01 Flying Mole. ForScience6686 Advanced Pilot Precision Award with Stingray. ... on winning the K-Prize and assorted honours for successfully completing the mission and returning home to Kerbin safely. Thanks all for your mission reports and welcome to the K-Prize party guest list aka the roll of honour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RizzoTheRat Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Well it's not going to win any additional awards for originality or doing anything anyone hasn't done before, but I did my first proper SSTO mission since version 0.something last night, with the imaginatively named SSTO3a (1 and 2 were development aircraft and 3 had an issue with exploding payload), so figured I should do a mission report for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrainEngie Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Spearhead-Port SSTO, intended for LKO service. Warning: image-heavy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edax Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 (edited) Read an article about Flying Wing designs on the BBC website a few days ago and was fascinated by its history, so I decided to take an unstable prototype I designed to tow parasite spaceplanes into space and instead refine it to be airworthy and K-Prize capable. Needless to say, Flying Wings are tricky, and it took me several days to solve the engines melting off, the flexing, the flat-spinning, the pitching problem, the excessive maneuverability problem, the fuel flow problem and the structural stability. Thankfully my insistence on incorporating a high-thrust design negates any drag issues this SSTO no doubt suffers from. This is probably the widest plane I've yet designed in this game. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160201-the-wwii-flying-wing-decades-ahead-of-its-time Edited February 13, 2016 by Edax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacThePhoenix Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Whipped this up in half an hour. The Omega Project is pretty much me trying to build a small SSTO. Being sort of rushed, I was only able to get to Minmus and back to KSC with 3 units of fuel left. I also did a terrible job eyeballing the avionics which resulted in terrible gliding and kraken's bane for some reason throwing me down the entire runway after landing . Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charwhick Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 (edited) First post! Mission profile: Takeoff at KSC carrying miniature space station in payload bay. Release payload in 80x80km orbit, leaving a Kerbal to man it. Return to runway at KSC. Inspired by TrainEngie's design. Edited February 14, 2016 by Charwhick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gojira1000 Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 (edited) Edit - ahh as SPA pointed out, below - I can't read. Be back shortly! *runs to the SPH* I thought I should drop back in with the Duna Express - mostly because I wanted an upgrade to Astrokerbal All stock, 69 parts. Edited February 14, 2016 by Gojira1000 Woops - no ISRU eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceplaneAddict Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 12 hours ago, Gojira1000 said: I thought I should drop back in with the Duna Express - mostly because I wanted an upgrade to Astrokerbal All stock, 69 parts. Sorry, but appearantly the rules prohibit using mined fuel as anything but payload sorry. Also, would I get astrokerbal whatever, if I were to do a Jool-2 (Pol/Bop)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacThePhoenix Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 @Charwhick, how do you post your pictures like a slideshow as you did? I've been posting mine one after another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charwhick Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 12 minutes ago, PacThePhoenix said: @Charwhick, how do you post your pictures like a slideshow as you did? I've been posting mine one after another. There's an "i" button on a black background in the post editor, farthest button to the right. That lets you embed an imgur album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacThePhoenix Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 2 hours ago, Charwhick said: There's an "i" button on a black background in the post editor, farthest button to the right. That lets you embed an imgur album. Awesome, thanks . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gojira1000 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Right - read the rules first *makes note* Here is the absolutely sloppiest Astrokerbal flight you will ever see. In an SSTO called "Scooter". It has the one redeeming feature of succeeding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boolybooly Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 Congratulations to ... RizzoTheRat Utilitarial Commendation (x3 sats), Pilot Proficiency Medal with SSTO3a. TrainEngie Advanced Pilot Precision Award 1st Class with Spearhead-Port SSTO. Edax Advanced Pilot Precision Award with Furiosa IX. PacThePhoenix Astrokerbal Distinction (Minmus), Advanced Pilot Precision Award with Project Omega [K-Prize]. Charwhick Utilitarial Commendation Advanced Pilot Precision Award with RCSC SSTO Shuttle. Gojira1000 - Astrokerbal Distinction (Minmus) with Scooter. ... for completing the K-Prize mission successfully. Thanks all for your mission reports and welcome to the roll of honour aka the K-Prize party guest list. Thanks also to SpaceplaneAddict for dobbing in Gojira1000 and Gojira1000 if you want that mission linked as a gate crasher say so, it can be arranged but you are exempt from automatic gatecrasher listing due to having completed another mission (or two) successfully in this version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceplaneAddict Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 5 minutes ago, boolybooly said: [SNIP] Can I ask something? What would I get for a mission to Bop/Pol? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiej Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 (edited) . Edited November 15, 2024 by xiej Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boolybooly Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 2 hours ago, SpaceplaneAddict said: Can I ask something? What would I get for a mission to Bop/Pol? Exploratory because they are low g planetoids outside Kerbin SOI plus whatever else is involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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