Did your take cheap contract?

[Pawelk198604]

Such like sounding of space around Kerbin?

I wonder does any respected space agency did suborbital sounding mission nowadays ;-)

But as Emperor Vespasian used to say "pecunia non olet"

[Nathair]

I wonder does any respected space agency did suborbital sounding mission nowadays ;-)

Wonder no more.

[Sharpy]

After I invested into maintaining presence in space, I continue to reap profits of that presence. Suborbital is just a state on the way to the orbit. If I took effort to put a satellite there, I can use that satellite!

Tourists are in for some unexpected bonuses.

Like these four. Three for a flyby of Mun, one for a flyby of Minmus.

First, the launch stage fell short of the required delta-V, meaning the transfer stage after making the orbit, was deemed unsafe to attempt both Mun and Minmus flyby. The tourists, exhilarated, returned to the surface and paid the advance for the orbital/suborbital Kerbin flight. Then a different opportunity presented itself: external firms commissioned construction of two orbital stations: Mun and Minmus orbits.

Two stations of modern, streamlined "MK2" design were built, tourists along with skeleton crew embarked, and the stations arrived upon their respective destinations. The four tourists spent two months in orbits of the two moons, until transport back home arrived, picking first the Minmus tourist, bringing her to meet her friends in Mun orbit, and after picking them up, making a successful landing some 300km north of KSC,

In the meantime the Minmusian tourist greeted two different crews of landers that stopped by to offload science picked up on Minmus surface, never mind a power module with four brand newly-invented Gigantor panels ending power shortages of the station.

Anyway, sign up for a flyby, spend two months in the moon's orbit... that is a bit of a bonus!

[samstarman5]

After I invested into maintaining presence in space, I continue to reap profits of that presence. Suborbital is just a state on the way to the orbit. If I took effort to put a satellite there, I can use that satellite!

Tourists are in for some unexpected bonuses.

Like these four. Three for a flyby of Mun, one for a flyby of Minmus.

First, the launch stage fell short of the required delta-V, meaning the transfer stage after making the orbit, was deemed unsafe to attempt both Mun and Minmus flyby. The tourists, exhilarated, returned to the surface and paid the advance for the orbital/suborbital Kerbin flight. Then a different opportunity presented itself: external firms commissioned construction of two orbital stations: Mun and Minmus orbits.

Two stations of modern, streamlined "MK2" design were built, tourists along with skeleton crew embarked, and the stations arrived upon their respective destinations. The four tourists spent two months in orbits of the two moons, until transport back home arrived, picking first the Minmus tourist, bringing her to meet her friends in Mun orbit, and after picking them up, making a successful landing some 300km north of KSC,

In the meantime the Minmusian tourist greeted two different crews of landers that stopped by to offload science picked up on Minmus surface, never mind a power module with four brand newly-invented Gigantor panels ending power shortages of the station.

Anyway, sign up for a flyby, spend two months in the moon's orbit... that is a bit of a bonus!

If I read you right, you took along tourists while performing other contracts. There is actually a term for that: supercargo. Usually pertains to any extra cargo you can take on to fill any remaining empty space before leaving port, but many a mariner doesn't hesitate to tack the name onto passengers.

I've actually taken experimental parts along on a flight a time or two for some extra funds(and science). Nothing quite like having a radial decoupler set on the side of a satellite launch that has nothing attached to it. (5..4..3..X-7 activation..2..that made a boom..1..and we have liftoff of the Phoenix Orbital Relay...)

[Evanitis]

No contract compares in cheapness with the 'send scientific data from X where you already have a craft' type. And yes, of course I bloody take them. They contact me for they want fast results. Hell, I even have a Kerbal stationed on Mun and Minmus, so he can plant a flag when a space agency feels the need to setup another billboard for a colony in the distant future.

[Fenris]

Cheap contracts pay off pretty well when combined, especially tourist contracts (well I'm sure there are others). I finished multiple contracts in one misson the other day which consisted of; suborbital flight over kerbin, orbit kerbin, orbit the sun, flyby the mun, orbit the mun, fly by minmus, orbit minmus, land on minmus, plant a flag on minmus, collect science on minmus, leave a surface base on minmus, and get back to kerbin safely. That was 12 tourists and 6 kerbalnauts (I wanted them to get experience).

The total payout was a little over 2 million after expenses which included spending 950k on a rocket I probably could have built for less than half of that.

[Sharpy]

No contract compares in cheapness with the 'send scientific data from X where you already have a craft' type. And yes, of course I bloody take them. They contact me for they want fast results. Hell, I even have a Kerbal stationed on Mun and Minmus, so he can plant a flag when a space agency feels the need to setup another billboard for a colony in the distant future.

Gosh I just imagined a deadly bored kerbal picking his nails lying sprawled in the pilot seat, with Minmus visible through the windows, and a whole pile of flag poles stacked behind the seat.

What a job...

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orbit the sun,

I'm wary of these. Sometimes they want the low orbit.