What do you do with asteroids after mining them?

[iR80]

I'm just curious,  since I have a few asteroids that I've mined, but I don't know what I should do with them

[Stamp20]

Once they've been mined, there's no practical use for asteroids. You can terminate them in the tracking station or you can try to land them to use as a very expensive decoration for the KSC.

[Caerfinon]

Or you could use Asteroid Recycling Technologies and make it a big storage tank in space.

 

 

[iR80]

30 minutes ago, Caerfinon said:

Or you could use Asteroid Recycling Technologies and make it a big storage tank in space.

 

 

I don't know why, but I honestly thought you could do that in stock KSP, but I guess not

48 minutes ago, Stamp20 said:

Once they've been mined, there's no practical use for asteroids. You can terminate them in the tracking station or you can try to land them to use as a very expensive decoration for the KSC.

Time to build a giant wall made entirely out of asteroids around the KSC to protect it, i guess

[fourfa]

Claw them together in a graveyard orbit, build a new moon

[iR80]

1 hour ago, fourfa said:

Claw them together in a graveyard orbit, build a new moon

I hope KSP 2 actually supports merging asteroids to make bigger asteroids. I'd actually try to build a planet bigger than Stephenson 2-18 just to see what'd happen

Edited July 28, 2021 by iR80
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[panzer1b]

Assemble them into station...

In this specific case, i made sorta replica of omega from mass effect...

That or just make them into asteroid fields and see if you can navigate them without spontaneously exploding on contact with one...

[herbal space program]

2 hours ago, fourfa said:

Claw them together in a graveyard orbit, build a new moon

This is actually something I was thinking about doing in my current career game once I'm done with all my current missions, but with asteroids that haven't been mined out yet: Build a giant  station complex  out of at least 27 of them in the shape of the Borg cube. 

[iR80]

2 hours ago, herbal space program said:

This is actually something I was thinking about doing in my current career game once I'm done with all my current missions, but with asteroids that haven't been mined out yet: Build a giant  station complex  out of at least 27 of them in the shape of the Borg cube. 

I'm actually doing something kinda like that, except I'm randomly attaching them to one another using claws and adding more claws to help keep them together. So far I've got 4 asteroids, but I don't have enough E class asteroids. I might throw in a comet or two but comet physics are wonky

[modus]

Don't forget to say goodbye to your frames 

I've made stations with asteroids, they're awesome but it's hard to keep partcount under control...(for me at least)

Edited July 29, 2021 by modus

[Aerodynamic Kerbal]

If it's a BIG ASTEROID, then you can put it into a LKO, and try to spot it from the KSC

[Dientus]

Does anyone happen to know current heat and impact tolerances of asteroids?

 

Just bring it in to Kerbin at high speed and destroy it.

[kerbiloid]

Give moons to Dres and Gilly.

[pandaman]

I put mine into low orbit around Minmus

[juanml82]

Crash it to see how much science you can get out of a seismographer

[pquade]

Juicy, juicy fuel.

Fuel on Kerbin's surface costs almost nothing, but fuel on orbit around any body is priceless.

[Inkstrike_]

Shoot them into Jool with a mass relay. did that once. the mass relay broke after due to a kraken attack