Where is your junkyard?

[322997am]

So I mean where you have a large amount of stages, old ships, debris etc. I operate one on minmus flats because I have kis. But even without KIS is this something you do?

[GreenLight]

kerbin.

[SpacedCowboy]

In a lot of my career games, the Mun usually ends up with most of my refuse.

BTW. How does one deposit trash on Jool?

[Snark]

I can't vote, because the answer is "Everywhere" and it's not one of the options on the poll.

By which I mean:  my junkyard is wherever debris happens to end up, which is all over the place.  Kerbin orbit tends to be the most crowded, just because lots of missions pass through there.  But there's stuff all over the place.

[Guest]

Low <homeworld> orbit, depending. I don't bother cleaning up even though a lot of my debris has a low enough periapsis to quickly aerobrake. It's not like I've ever run into anything.

[Confused Scientist]

I have a former base on the Mun with around 400 parts within physics range.

[DAL59]

I have 3 ships standed on the Mun, plus two in Mun orbit, and two dead comsats.  

[Superfluous J]

Nowhere. If I don't want it later, I put it on a trajectory to crash or be tossed out of the system forever. Once it's the latter, I delete it in the tracking station.

[Jack5.exe]

I did the same as @Snark but copied this: 

 

[jhousen]

I use the mun as a testing grounds, lots of debris there

[LordFerret]

2 hours ago, Jack5.exe said:

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dat purdy !

... and I can see you in the beginning of the video, that evil smile. lol

 

Kerbin is my dumping ground, or at least I attempt to make sure all junk burns up coming back in. I try very hard not to leave stuff floating around out there, but it is inevitable.

[Chel]

When I build rockets, I use the sepatrons to push the empty stages back in, and use my velocity to get into orbit. For example, when I'm just about to reach orbit, I will release the first stage, having used up all it's fuel. I then use the second stage engine to get into orbit. If I have any remaining stages with fuel on the return trip, I transfer all of it into my main engine's fuel tank. While re-entering, I then dump the empty stages. That way, all debris gets destroyed.

[purpleivan]

I've left most junk on Eve I'd say... including this pile from a single return to orbit.

[NSEP]

I only have a junkyard on Minmus, and well, all of LKO is just full of junk too XD. Does the VAB count too?

[Inverurie Jones]

I generally arrange it so that I drop debris onto a planet from a great height, resulting in pretty 'splodes and no litter but it doesn't always work, so my last save (before some kind of weird bug broke it) had big-ass fuel tanks all over the Mun and a sort of incipient Oort cloud of uncouplers, farings and dead probes.

There was also that upside-down rover in the Farside Crater...

Jeb should have got a medal for covering a record distance across the Mun on foot after that.

Edited October 27, 2017 by Inverurie Jones

[TheRedTom]

Duna has claimed so many of my ships and rovers. It always seem to be the worst place to land

[DaMaster_Architect]

Most of my debris is in some highly-eccentric orbit around Kerbin. These are disposed booster stages, transfer stages, etc. 

As I play with MKS, I generally "disassemble" any debris that ends up close to my bases. For example, my base on the Mun was surrounded by leftover dropships that brought parts of the base. At the same time, the base needed MaterialKits for various reasons. By disassembling all parts of each dropship individually (its an option in the right-click menu of each part), I ended up with a lot of MaterialKits, no debris, and a significant reduction in parts within physics range. The MaterialKits gained from disassembling all this debris was used to inflate all the Ranger parts for my base. Win-win-win situation.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

Junk? What is this "junk" you speak of?

Oh...you mean my fine collection of gently used antique orbital space parts?

It's mostly in LKO.

[Pthigrivi]

Im so fussy about this. I've got a few stack separators floating around the solar system and they drive me crazy but I cant bring myself to delete them.

Also, mygod the bad language filter on this board is over the top. It translates "a.n.a.l" as "poophole" which is so much worse.

Edited October 27, 2017 by Pthigrivi

[septemberWaves]

I've probably left the largest amount of mass on Eve over the years, although Tylo is probably coming up in close second with discarded descent stages. That said, in terms of sheer numbers I think I've probably ended up leaving more separate things on either the Mun or Duna than anywhere else (more likely Duna since the Mun is easier to make single-stage landing vehicles for).

[A Soviet Tank]

After watching Planetes and a very close encounter with an old satellite,  I've become very scared of LKO debris. I'm quite lazy though, so I just terminate it in the tracking station. So yeah, my dumping ground is the hellish void where terminated vessels go to. 

Edited November 19, 2017 by A Soviet Tank
Oh dear autocorrect did not correct.

[DualDesertEagle]

I try to not leave any junk anywhere.

[GoSlash27]

Same as DDE, 5th Horseman, and Pthigrivi.
 I design every stage so that it's on a course to impact or burn up somewhere when I'm finished using it. I *hate* leaving debris.
Best,
-Slashy

[nascarlaser1]

I just started a new save so currently my debris are all littered around a Kerbin or munar orbit due to me launching frequent rockets there looking for easter eggs. As I expand outward the debris fields will grow and expand along with me. I never get rid of my debris , they are a reminder of all my past missions.

[DualDesertEagle]

10 hours ago, GoSlash27 said:

Same as DDE, 5th Horseman, and Pthigrivi.
 I design every stage so that it's on a course to impact or burn up somewhere when I'm finished using it. I *hate* leaving debris.
Best,
-Slashy

We Kerbals shall be more foresighted than our human counterparts who have littered their planet's orbit so much that it has indeed become a problem