Kerbal Research & Random Stupidity (videos)

[Cykyrios]

Kerbal Research & Random Stupidity

Greetings, everyone!

Kerbal Research & Random Stupidity (or KRRS) is proud to announce its latest discovery from our space center:

The crew successfully got into a kerbosynchronous orbit with a 60° inclination to better understand the reason the infinity symbol their ship drew relative to Kerbin's surface was tilted 90°.

We interviewed the flight engineer, who looked dizzy and couldn't say anything more than 'This is infinitely unexplainable'.

Ground Control, on their end, managed to get a pretty solid knowledge of the phenomenon, and came up with this article.

Other important discoveries and experiments from KRRS:

- Minmus's tidal lock, proving that inclination indeed leads to analemma.

And now some random, less important and potentially exploding stuff:

- Orbiting through a Munar Arch

- Wingless VTOL 'plane'

- Rocket momentum and balance on 2 wheels

- Rolling rockets!?

- Rocketry fireworks

- Plane launch from another plane

- RCS-powered flying cart

- Dragster racing on the runway

Tutorials:

Note: All tutorials (well, not many yet) will be redone in 0.17 with the size 2 parts (or maybe size 1 as well), and will include basic rocket construction, liftoff, orbital maneuvers, landing, and a lot more.

- Orbital Rendezvous & Docking

- To the Mun and back

Rest assured we'll be covering the next discovery in detail!

P.S.: Please tell me what you think of these videos, if the almost non-existent editing is a problem, anything... and some ideas for new vids are welcome too!

Edited August 21, 2012 by Cykyrios
News on tutorials

[Richy teh space man]

Dragsters were pretty cool, its impressive all the new ideas people seem to come up with on here..

[Cykyrios]

Thank you, but the idea was not mine, I just participated in a challenge =P

I just added a Tutorials category, with the first one covering orbital rendezvous and docking.

[Pluto100]

This is pretty awesome! Good job!

[rkman]

With so many people making good quality videos about KSP, we could have 24/7 KSP TV.

[Micra]

Great video\'s! Especially the last one about the docking.

[Cykyrios]

Just added a new tutorial, going to the Mun and back (I know, there are already lots of them). I\'ll be going to Minmus next.

A new stupid concept is also on its way =P (Edit: done)

If you have suggestions for any of the categories, feel free to tell me.

[Cykyrios]

New video is up, orbiting through a Munar arch!

I also included the persistence file for those of you who want to give it a try (link on YouTube).

[Vanamonde]

I suddenly feel so inadequate. :-[

[kodemunkey]

Is it possible to have an aircraft launched from a rocket?

[Cykyrios]

Yes it is, but you should make sure that your planes won't crash into each other as they separate. You should probably always have the smaller plane drop from below the bigger one, as lift will often make it pitch up upon release.

If you watch Squeegy Mackoy's Kerbals at War video, you will see that he even managed to keep both planes pretty stable.

And I guess this will be made easier in 0.17 since we will have visual indicators for centers of mass, thrust, lift and drag.

By the way, a little update on my videos: I will redo all tutorials and add a lot more for versions 0.17+. Other videos will be uploaded as I get ideas.