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Hey guys...apologies for the long wait.

The reason I haven't posted anything here for the best part of a month is because the KSP 1.7 update is just around the corner (this week in fact) and I want to do my next report with the new skybox and improved manoeuvre node system. So I will pick this up soon :)

EDIT: Hey, a third page!

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Alright, I'm back, and the game is better than ever! After familiarising myself with the new stuff in 1.7, I got down to business and sent the first runabout lander to the Munar Transfer Station. Enjoy!

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The Munar Transfer Station needs its second lander! Sorry, this part is pretty much a repeat of the previous one.

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Another update...I’m planning to reinstall KSP this weekend, just because it’ll fix a few irritating problems I’ve been having for a while, while possibly improving performance. Don’t worry, my save isn’t going anywhere (I’ll copy over the ‘saves’ folder from my old install) but I’m going to reinstall all of my mods and hopefully weed out a few that I don’t need or use.

Regarding what I’ll actually be doing next in-game, I’ve decided that I should install two fuel tank modules on the MTS, so I don’t need to send a refuelling mission every time one of the landers returns from a surface sortie.

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Hey guys... I'm still here :) I just wanted to post another quick update because of this:

This new DLC is coming on May 30th, and the new surface experiments especially interest me because now I want to bring some of those along with my Mun base so that I can set up a cool scientific station near my base. That will probably push back the construction of the Mun base itself, but I still need to deliver those fuel pods to the MTS as well as send a couple of uncrewed scout rovers to the Mun's surface (notwithstanding that I'm planning a big trip around Kerbin in an airship and I need to prepare for that), so I'll have stuff to do in the 24 days until the Breaking Ground DLC arrives.

My next report shouldn't be too far off...stay tuned :)

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So while I'm getting really hyped for the Breaking Ground DLC (I really hope they've done more QA than they did with Making History) I still have some stuff to do in-game, and one of those things is deliver two fuel pods to the Munar Transfer Station to top up the Tender landers' tanks when they've returned from the surface. Here goes!

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  On 5/11/2019 at 2:32 PM, fulgur said:

Interesting report! I like the evolving station.

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Thanks :) The station should be finished by tomorrow, and then I can move on to preparing my Kerbin exploration mission. The construction of the actual Mun surface base should begin on June 1st, which is when I'll first be able to get my hands on the new DLC.

  On 5/11/2019 at 2:32 PM, fulgur said:

Does this require Kerbal Konstructs?

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Yes, here's the thread if you're interested.

 

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  On 5/11/2019 at 6:58 PM, Kerballing (Got Dunked On) said:

@RealKerbal3x-- it's great to once again see these mission reports return to my inbox!

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Thank you...and sorry for the sporadicity of the reports. I tend to do most of the big things happening in these at once and then take a bit of a break. While the big thing I’m building up to at the moment is building my Mun base, a lot of the things I need to do to prepare for that (like flying to the Mun and rendezvousing with the space station) are routine and as a result, incredibly tedious and I’m not very motivated to do them.

However, since doing surface construction and exploring the Mun is more interesting than docking for the 354th time, I hope you’ll see a higher frequency of reports when I get to doing that :)

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Here's another mission report for everyone to read. While the mission plan to deliver this module is identical to that of the previous mission, it ended up going quite differently when it came time to enter Munar orbit and rendezvous with the station.

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Hi Kerbonauts. Remember that big trip around Kerbin in an airship that I'm planning? Let me just reveal some info about it.

First, I think I'll be posting updates on that in their own thread, because I want to give it more story than I do for my usual mission reports - and mixing everything up in this thread will probably confuse people. However, I'll post a link here every time I post a chapter in the other thread.

In-game, I've been working on the various vehicles for the Kerbin Exploration Project (yes, that's the official name now). The only one that's fully complete is the airship, UKS Deep Purple (registry LTA-0101) Here's a picture:

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I have made a couple of minor changes since this picture was taken. First, the front engines on the rear engine pods were removed, and the rear-facing engine will now only be used for reverse-thrust. I would just use all of the engines for that, but a bug in the Heisenberg mod prevented it (Angel-125 says he will try to fix it when he has more time).

The other vehicles are a tiltrotor (almost finished, since it's only a slightly modified version of a craft that comes with the Buffalo mod), a rover, and a small tractor for moving the tiltrotor around inside the Purple's spacious cargo hold. I considered bringing a submarine, but it'd need a specialised drop bay to deploy and I'd probably have to move the aft gondola to do that, so just too much hassle.

Preparations are going quicker than I'd originally envisioned, so I'll probably be able to start some shakedown cruises for the Purple pretty soon. The only things remaining on my preparations list are adding docking ports inside the airship's cargo bay to secure payload in flight, and selecting a crew. Stay tuned for more :)

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Sorry for the long hiatus, guys. I've been focusing on the Kerbin Exploration Project (link in my signature) but here's another conventional mission report. This mission was actually necessary for the story: in chapter 5 the crew of the UKS Deep Purple have a meeting about the recent STS-7 launch and its payload. But anyway, on with the report!

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