Possibly the longest space trip so far?

[Pretor1an]

Hey guys!

First of all, im new to this forum so if this post doesn\'t belong here, feel free to move it elsewhere

Now to the topic. Yesterday i was experimenting with a new ship of mine, mainly using liquid fuel engines. So my aim was to reach a stable orbit around kerbin. When i reached 40000 metres I tried to reposition myself. Well and that failed I was about to crash into the ground when I got back in stable position. Then I thought, I wasted so much fuel already why don\'t I try to get at least very high. So I used all my remaining fuel to get high, in a 75° axis from the ground. When I checked my map I noticed how the 'orbit' I had till then expanded in an insane amount, even trespassing the mun\'s orbit. It all ended up in me going on a journey 66.000.000.000 metres away from the earth. The whole trip took me around 10 hours, and my kerbins left their planet for over 300 days. I didnt use any mods for this, and for prove I\'ve made a video.

Here it is:

Thanks for your attention ;D

[Atimed]

Holy cow... im speechless..

[ModernArc]

Lol, I have a ship in orbit around the sun (Kerbol) because, when they come out with another planet. I can go to it.

[Pretor1an]

How far away is the sun? And does it have any heat impacts or something on your ship? I really want to discover everything in that universe

[maltesh]

Lol, I have a ship in orbit around the sun (Kerbol) because, when they come out with another planet. I can go to it.

Unfortunately, v0.16 will break both persistence file and .craft file compatibility, so you\'ll have to throw another spacecraft out there.

[Mr. Me]

Actually, one of my rockets went to 81 billion meters

Sorry, no pics, I didn\'t know how to take a screenshot of KSP back then (13.2).

[Pretor1an]

How did you build your rocket? getting to 81 billion meters must take alot of fuel i suppose?

[Mr. Me]

How did you build your rocket? getting to 81 billion meters must take alot of fuel i suppose?

It was actually my dad that designed the rocket. All it was were some SRBs around a liquid stack with winglets. To fly it he just flew strait up.

[illectro]

Hey guys!

Here it is:

Thanks for your attention ;D

Not Even close to my 3+ year mission which returned to Kerbin on a retrograde orbit and set a re-entry speed record.

[Pretor1an]

Not Even close to my 3+ year mission which returned to Kerbin on a retrograde orbit and set a re-entry speed record.

Yeah well, you indeed built the fastest rocket I\'ve ever seen so far, but how far did you get away from kerbin? I couldn\'t see that clearly in the video, maybe i missed it

[illectro]

@1:46 in the Video you see me performing the transfer into the retrograde return orbit at 122,585,000 km

[Pretor1an]

Well way to go for me then^^ I only got half as far as you, so respect fellow spaceman ;D

[yoyo478]

Damn, ten hours in kerbal space program?

I waited for an hour and got to half that, so kudos to your design.

[Boex]

I hit about 400 billion once, left the game running whilst I was AFK. I think I surpassed 1000 days...I was going pretty fast...Maybe 18km/s at Periapsis.

At that distance, you couldn\'t distinguish Kerbol from the stars.

If you look really hard directly below the ship you can see the faded star of Kerbol.

Nope. Not the clear one. Slightly right and above it.

[Pretor1an]

I hit about 400 billion once, left the game running whilst I was AFK. I think I surpassed 1000 days...I was going pretty fast...Maybe 18km/s at Periapsis.

At that distance, you couldn\'t distinguish Kerbol from the stars.

If you look really hard directly below the ship you can see the faded star of Kerbol.

Nope. Not the clear one. Slightly right and above it.

Did you get back to kerbin? 400 billion metres is insane

[maltesh]

To be honest, ten hours seems extremely long for a 300-day trip. You can do 300 days in 45 minutes at 10k time. The Bi-elliptic sundives that I bookend persistence-wiping updates with take under four hours to fly and last 1200 days of game time.

I typically take the sundives out to 131Gm, more out of tradition than anything else. Anything capable of reaching about 5000 m/s in Low Kerbin Orbit can ride that velocity into a Kerbol escape if its escape trajectory is pointed near the leading pole of Kerbin\'s SOI.

My longest successful return to Kerbin took 2200 days, but that was just me being bad at finding Kerbin\'s SOI and eventually giving up and riding the inside track in v 0.12.

[Pretor1an]

Yeah the problem was, that i forgot to turn to x10000. I often switch time speed, because i make adjustments to the direction or things like that. One time i forgot to turn it back to x10000 and left my pc on when i went to sleep. thats why it took me so long. I tried this again today, and yeah you\'re right if its on the highest speed it wont take longer than an hour

[Boex]

Did you get back to kerbin? 400 billion metres is insane

\'Fraid not. It was supposed to be an \'Interstellar Mission to a distant star system.\'

[Pretor1an]

\'Fraid not. It was supposed to be an \'Interstellar Mission to a distant star system.\'

:DD Yeah when I launch those selfdestructing missions, my kerbins are real martyrs

[Boex]

Plus, some interesting stuff here for you -

The Kerbal Solar system is scaled down over 10 times, if Kerbin was Earth.

Earth orbits at an average of 150 billion meters from the Sun, and Kerbin at 13 billion from Kerbol. So you\'re orbit didn\'t reach half way to Earth\'s, and mine got half way to Jupiter\'s orbit :/. Not very far, huh.

But if we times our numbers by 10, then we get the scaled up version. So, if Kerbin was Earth, you would have surpassed Jupiter, and I would be nearing Neptune.

Yours took a year, or there abouts, mine took 3.

This means that we both traveled about twice the speed that the 2 Voyager Probes did.

So, based on this logic, I have come to the conclusion that we are better at space, than NASA.

[illectro]

pfft \'Better than NASA\' isn\'t something to be proud of.

I just hope we get some new planets in the next release. and x100,000 , x1,000,000 time acceleration.

[Pretor1an]

Plus, some interesting stuff here for you -

The Kerbal Solar system is scaled down over 10 times, if Kerbin was Earth.

Earth orbits at an average of 150 billion meters from the Sun, and Kerbin at 13 billion from Kerbol. So you\'re orbit didn\'t reach half way to Earth\'s, and mine got half way to Jupiter\'s orbit :/. Not very far, huh.

But if we times our numbers by 10, then we get the scaled up version. So, if Kerbin was Earth, you would have surpassed Jupiter, and I would be nearing Neptune.

Yours took a year, or there abouts, mine took 3.

This means that we both traveled about twice the speed that the 2 Voyager Probes did.

So, based on this logic, I have come to the conclusion that we are better at space, than NASA.

Wow, thx for this information I feel this game has great potential. If they expand the universe, and add a few more planets this could cause super big projects with hours of flying and stuff like that.

[Bluejayek]

I just went for a long duration mission. Bi eliptical transfer to reverse kerbin orbit for a high speed impact. Went out to 100 billion meters and came back in, 4 hours into the mission... And I ran out of fuel on the home stretch.

Annoyed me enough that I went and edited my persistence file to refill my fuel tank.

And after doing all that, I had the reentry aproach lined up and accidentally time warped into the planet. It was not meant to be.

[illectro]

It took me tries to return to kerbin retrograde, and I had only a sliver of fuel left. Just keep trying.

[SunJumper]

I\'ve managed a return to Kerbin a few times, but with hacked engines/fuel tanks. My longest space trip, however, took only a few seconds (Again, mods). I modded the command module to have insanely low mass and drag values, and an insanely high crash tolerance. I flew this command module into the ocean, where the ocean caused the module to bounce back out at some 18,000,000,000,000,000,000m/s (May be off by a few zeros), where it somehow stopped at 6,148,000,000,000,000,000m from Kerbol. Keep in mind, this is 600,000,000,000 times faster than the speed of light.

Concerning legitimate endeavours, my longest space trip would be the times I have escaped Kerbol, but the kerbalnauts did not return. Longest space trip I\'ve returned from, would be missions to the outer reaches of Kerbin\'s SOI.