Pol support thread.

[Minmus Taster]

Everyone talks about how Dres and Gilly being super underrated places to go, but you know what object is really underrated? POL!

Almost nobody has ever talked about Pol, this moon seems to have been mostly forgotten about it.

Sure the spiky rocks might be a little dumb but WHO SHOULD CARE?

Even the Squad Dev's seem to have mostly forgotten it even in the game, seriously when was the last time Squad mentioned Pol?

It's lying there....

On the edge of the known Universe....

Waiting for revenge....

Pol SHOULD look like this though:

And I will wait with great impatient(ness?) for the day it looks like this.

What do you think about Pol?

[Minmus Taster]

I shall not rest until Pol is g *Snoring

[cubinator]

Cursed are those who dare to touch Pol...

[Minmus Taster]

POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

[TheFlyingKerman]

Pol is actually very useful for mining, and for this reason I have landed on Pol more than other bodies (other than Kerbin).

[Minmus Taster]

CMON PEOPLE KEEP THE STEAM GOING!

[king of nowhere]

i like pol. it's beautiful. not like dres or bop. i would love to drive a rover there, if the gravity was strong enough to allow it...

[SkyRender]

So you could say you're taking a poll about Pol?

Pol is great.  So much easier to mine on than Bop, and way more interesting to look at too.  Here's to the nifty pollen-shaped space rock and all its bounty!

[KaliDitzy]

I had not seen Pol before, looks interesting, maybe sometime I'll try to send a little lander probe there to look around and do some science.

[jimmymcgoochie]

Pol’s not bad, just a bit out of the way to visit.

When visiting Jool, most people just go to Laythe because it’s the easiest to land on due to the atmosphere, or possibly to Val as it’s still close in to Jool but you don’t need to deal with re-entry heating; Pol is pretty inclined relative to the three inner moons and also rather far out so it requires quite a lot of delta-V to get there, relatively speaking, but the low gravity makes it ideal for a mining outpost and it’s easier to reach than Bop which is much more inclined.

[Timber Micka]

That's the first satelite of Jool that I fully explored actually. I think it's one of the easiest destinations to reach in the Joolian system.

[KaliDitzy]

I have a probe around Jool but its not powerful enough to send science back to the KSC, next time I go there I'll make sure to fly by Pol and then go back near Kerbin so I can actually transmit the data Lol

[JIMMY_the_DOG]

 We must keep pol so I can (my member title)

[VoidSquid]

8 minutes ago, Sqoosh said:

but its not powerful enough to send science back to the KSC

That sounds like a call to built a solar system wide communication network, if you're up for the task  

[JIMMY_the_DOG]

And why's @Minmus button now button, not taster? His name keeps flickering between button and taster for me..

[KaliDitzy]

1 minute ago, VoidSquid said:

That sounds like a call to built a solar system wide communication network, if you're up for the task  

Definitely, Ive just been lazy 

 

Maybe today I'll actually try.

[VoidSquid]

Been procrastinating that myself too for too long, tbh  

For the Jool system, as per my plan, I need to deploy 27 Relay Satellites, plus 20 ScanSat Satellites. Sending 14 rockets to Jool is one thing, but then deploying almost 50 satellites, one by one, in specific orbits, plus adjusting for the relay satellites the orbital period precise to milliseconds? Jeez... 

At least I now have most of it done after procrastinating for weeks - it's so much easier and more fun to send some tourists to Mun or Minmus  

Edited March 2, 2021 by VoidSquid

[KaliDitzy]

That level of precision must be insane, I'd probably overprepare for something like that 

 I may just set up multiple relays in increasing altitudes above Kerbol to get a uniform spread a few times over, and also maybe some orbiting ones around Moho and Duna. Then after that I can get contact.

I certainly have the technology and the rocket for that, once it's all done I can get my probe and also send another for Pol.

[VoidSquid]

Well, I basically follow this tutorial, with a few adjustments as per my personal preference:

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:Setting_up_a_CommNet_system

And for the precision: doing the orbital periods as precise as possible, the constellations won't degrade significantly in 10 or 20 years, I prefer that over deploying new satellites every other year.

[KaliDitzy]

I'll take a look at it when I get home, it may actually help me significantly as I have lost many probes to poor connection, let's hope I dont put too much on my rockets because of how grand this seems to me.

[VoidSquid]

It's really not that hard to do, only costs some time and patience. Let me know If I can help you out with anything  

Edited March 2, 2021 by VoidSquid

[KaliDitzy]

When I get home and attempt it I'll tell you how it goes 

Edited March 2, 2021 by Sqoosh
Pressed save too soon

[magnemoe]

On 1/14/2021 at 9:32 AM, TheFlyingKerman said:

Pol is actually very useful for mining, and for this reason I have landed on Pol more than other bodies (other than Kerbin).

Agree, during my last large mission playthrough I put the Jool system base on it. Bop has high inclination, the large 1x warp zone and low gravity so you move slowly while you can not dock with it as with Gilly
 

[wpetula]

Pol is really cool because of the spikes. If only they had collision...

Thank you Pol for not being another Mun clone 

[Dientus]

I can't believe I have only visited this gem once long ago. I never even surveyed it!

 

Thanx to the "Notice Pol Society" and the promise of ore, I am setting up initial Jool incursion via Pol this time around!

 

Jeb! Fire up the Moar ... EVERYTHING!