Another Way of Doing Things. . . (a KerBinary Mission report) (It's NOT over)

[TRAPPIST-1E]

Before we start, I'd like to thank myself for making the mod I will be using, KerBinary. It's ok and I hope you check it out. Also I am playing on Rescale 2x, with a self-imposed rule of no reverts on actual missions. Enjoy!

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CHAPTER 1: Intro and stuff

WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, everything has to start somewhere, and here, like most other KSP games, I started out with a simple sounding rocket, the Safe 'n Sound 1

Isn't she a Beauty?

Unfortunately, the parachute was deployed in flight. Still got 72 whole science points!!!

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Since I am using BARIS, i want to do some Testing

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Not THAT kind of testing, Jeb!

Sigh. . . .  Later.

Edited July 12, 2023 by TRAPPIST-1E

[The Dressian Exploder]

oooOOOOOoooh! Can't wait to see how this progesses.

[TRAPPIST-1E]

I'm going to remove BARIS

Edited August 5, 2021 by TRAPPIST-1E

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CHAPTER 2: Space is the place

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We start off with a new rocket, the Safe 'n Sound 2. It's a big upgrade from the first rocket, and cound probably reach orbit with an upper stage.

GAS GAS GAS

Beautiful from up here, huh.

Back to Kerba Firma again, after nearly disintegrating. By the way, I had no control over the rocket at all the whole time

All in all, a successful mission. 82 science points, too!

Now for crew

 

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CHAPTER 2 1/2

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Say Hello to the SHTICK mk1, the KSP's first crewed vehicle

Uhg. Does it have to look like that?

-Engineer's Comment: No, but we wanted to upset Administration by making it look Horrible.

ABORT, ABORT!!!!

-Administrators Comment: Those Lazy engineers, always forgetting stuff. Seriously, no control scheme. We should fire them on the spot!!

 

Sigh . . . . broken rockets and infighting. Will we ever have success?

[Vagrant203]

If Engineering is causing problems, Science or Pilot Div might be able to refocus them.

[TRAPPIST-1E]

Well, seeing as the science Dept. is mainly unpaid college students, and the astronaut corps  consists of just jeb and vall, probably not.

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CHAPTER 3: Nothing's Working!

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We Start off with the first, and probably only flight of this chapter, Horizons 1.

It's the KSP's second attempt at crewed flight, and this time it looks sensible

-Engineers Comment: Well, we had to after Admin threatened our jobs

Ignition! Of the SRB lower stage

Stage separation

Burning hot

Gosh darn it! Stupid part limits

Jeb is sad

The reentry has problems with oscillations. Luckily, nothing came of them

Safe in the water (even the capsule looks sad)

 

All in all, a sort of failure. Jeb went to space, but not to orbit.

-Administrations comment: Why didn't we build a bigger rocket? Where are the Moar Boosters!

-Rnd's Comment: Not our fault! It was engineering!

-Engineering's Comment: It was the financial dept.!

-Financial Dept.'s Comment: We dont have the money to upgrade our buildings! We spent it all on cheese!

-Everyone's Comment: Then who spent the money!

-Jeb's Comment: Ummmmmmmm . . . . .

 

 

 

 

Also, i'm sorry about the shorter chapters, especially compared to other mission reports. The length of the chapter just tends to coincide with the amount of KSP I play a day

 

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by TRAPPIST-1E

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CHAPTER 4: Building, Flying, Dreaming!

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Boys, This is gonna be a big one

 

The Crewed Orbit program is going well, with the introduction of a new rocket, the New Horizons

You know how it goes

<Insert build fly dream music>

All in all, a fully successful mission

Jeb went to space

Science was gained

And I forgot to take screenshots of the time in space.

 

Now, we do some probe stuff.

Behold, the Horizons 3

I forgot to take screenshots of the launch, as I had no SAS and it was quite hard

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Science was got, blah blah blah, cool satellite

 

I needed money, so decided to take a contract to test an engine. The deployment thing for space is the satellite but without much in it.

The LV is just New Horizons minus boosters

Deploying engine

Now defunct, the empty cargo bay drifts through space

 

Oh, and I messed around with planes a bit

Spoiler

Below: an earlier iteration

All in all, a good day for the KSP.

Edited August 13, 2021 by TRAPPIST-1E

[jimmymcgoochie]

That plane looks strangely familiar…

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I guess there are only so many ways you can convert a Blue Steel rocket plane to jet power 

 

[TRAPPIST-1E]

I tried to differentiate them, but I didn't have the bigger cockpits

 

And about the other rocket designs, that's just an example of convergent evolution

Edited August 13, 2021 by TRAPPIST-1E

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CHAPTER 5: I'M BACK, BABY!

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Just one mission today, but an important one. The space program has decided, after a long hiatus, to reach farther than LKO, to POL, Kerbins's only moon (yes i am using an indev version of KerBinary)

BEHOLD: The Pol 1

Got some nice shots

Waterfall is amazing

This is giving me Virgin Orbit vibes

Tylo, Kerbol, and Grannus in one picture

Burning for Pol

Pol flyby

Leaving Pol

Mission over, leaving Pol 1 to drift forever among the stars

Mission accomplished!

 

 

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CHAPTER 6: WE MEET AGAIN (AGAIN)

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Hooh BOY, this is gonna be a big one.

 

First, we start off with a few changes to the space program. First of all, the Horizons program is being split into 2. The Horizons program is going to become exclusively crewed missions, and the new program, the Dawn program will have the unmanned ones. Also, i installed the state funding mod (using the USK).

 

This will be the first launch, an unmanned test flight of the new advanced Muun Capsule (the Muun is the mun in Kerbinary, but it's a planet)

Liftoff!

Next: we farmed some science

Now for the launch of Telecom 1 - Dawn 5. it will validate the usefulness of communication satellites in orbit. it will be the last of the Cargo Bay Satellites

Ignore the antennae

Mission accomplished!

 

Now for a Big Deal

TO TYLO

To get to Tylo, the New Horizons rocket will be in its most powerful configuration, with 3 stages and 4 boosters. Also, sorry for the lack of pictures. The mission was stressful.

At Tylo, flying by GIlly

Now the fuel is spent and the active part of the mission has ended, the passive part can now happen

All in all, a good day for the KSP

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Report on the New Horizons Launch Vehicle

The New Horizons Launch Vehicle is an incredibly configurable rocket. It has an optional 3rd stage and number of solid rocket side boosters ranging form 0 to 4. It also even has an optional fairing. The naming convention is as follows: New Horizons starts it off. Next is the number of boosters, Then the number of stages, the if it has a fairing, represented as an F or an N.Examples as follows: New Horizons 22F; New Horizons 43N; New Horizons 00F. This Has been a report on the New Horizons Launch Vehicle.

 

 

[Vagrant203]

Personally, if I bothered with a naming convention like this, I wouldn't bother tacking on an N for the variant without fairing.

Then again, I don't bother with naming like this so what do I know.

[TRAPPIST-1E]

Oh god. I just deleted the save when I was trying to reinstall ksp.

Mission report's over i guess

Edited August 23, 2021 by TRAPPIST-1E

[Vagrant203]

F

[jimmymcgoochie]

 Check the recycle bin?

[Maria Sirona]

[TRAPPIST-1E]

I think I am going to reboot this after I release Kerbinary version 2.0

Edited October 16, 2021 by TRAPPIST-1E

[TRAPPIST-1E]

New Mission Report

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/210429-another-way-of-doing-things-2-electric-boogaloo/

Edited June 30, 2023 by TRAPPIST-1E

[TRAPPIST-1E]

I found the original save file so this will be returning. The mods will be changing as I forget which ones I used. will scrap kerbalism though

new mods:

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Edited June 14, 2023 by TRAPPIST-1E

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Chapter 7: Business as Usual

Did . . . Something just happen? It feels like a year just passed, yet it also feels like nothing at all. Everyone is in their normal places and nothing seems off, yet I have a sinking feeling that I just missed something important. Yet, regardless, the show must go on. There are still rockets to launch, moons to orbit, and with that, we come to the Horizons 4:

Built with the most powerful Horizons rocket to date, it even has an orbital maneuvering module for advanced rendezvous capabilities. That, in fact, is it's mission. To Rendezvous with another spacecraft in orbit and, well, kinda just say hi. We haven't really figured out how to dock yet.

We begin with a launch in the early morning, which on Kerbin is actually still hours away from sunrise

And we lift off, the 4 boosters burning bright

A clean booster separation

And MECO achieved

The second stage ignites as we witness an orbital sunrise

As the automatic maneuver system was glitching, jeb had to manually get himself into orbit

Second stage cutoff

Capsule detachment as the solar panels cannot generate power from inside the fairing

And a great view of Tylo in the background

Now Pol and Tylo, both Kerbin's celestial companions. Alas, we have to end the mission early after 18 days in orbit as we have run out of provisions early (I was messing around with configuring Snacks! as the longer day of Kerbin in the mod messes with it I think)

Deorbited

Re-entering

And Landed.

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All in all, a successful mission. SCIENCE! was gained, although we didn't get to attempt a rendezvous. However, we did get to test the limits of the endurance of the Horizons spacecraft and our astronauts. That'll be Jeff Kerman, signing off-

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what? Hey wait, why are you here?! You aren't supposed to be here! I did nothing wrong!
 

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Wait wait don't take me there aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

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You weren't supposed to hear that, sorry

 

The space program will be properly reformed under the new government of United East Kerbonia's new administration. The Chancellor will be pleased.

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Author's Note: Snacks! has some issues with the modified (longer) day meaning a kerbal could survive for 30 times longer than intended as the day is 30 normal days long. I think I have solved this but we will see.

Edited June 30, 2023 by TRAPPIST-1E

[TRAPPIST-1E]

Gonna have to remove the kerbin-tylo barycenter to just have tylo orbit kerbin as the barycenter causes too many issues that I don't know how to fix

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Chapter 8: Trials and Tribulations

Welp. I guess I'm the new mission documenter.  I don't really know who's actually reading these, but I hope you weren't bored out of your mind by the last guy. Actually, what did happen to the last guy? Nevermind, we have stuff to do. A fishy looking guy named Gene showed up on our doorstep with a very official looking letter saying that The Central Directorate and The Chancellor himself have ordered that more manned missions shall be conducted outside of Low Kerbin Orbit. Specifically, Pol.

To accomplish these lofty goals, the best college dropouts engineers of of the SSP have been ordered to stay up for roughly a week, using extreme amounts of caffeine to devise the Horizons 5 spacecraft:

Jedediah, the only Kerbal as of yet to ever fly into space has been elected to go on this mission. It only took a little bit of knockout gas to get him into the rocket.

The twin SRB's are a new design, meant to stretch the limits of what the base New Horizons rocket is able to do. The capsule and spacecraft are basically just the Horizons 4 spacecraft but with an added fuel tank in the middle.

Wait, something went wrong with the SRB separation. It appears attaching them from the bottom leads to, well, issues. Perhaps also, getting Jeb to fly the rocket while still under the effects of ether might have not been the best idea.

He manages to abort safely, much to the chagrin of mission control, where cries of "JEEEEB!!" can be heard.

When we recovered him, he kind of just flopped out of the capsule. As far as our resident medical expert can say, "Welp. He's probably not awake. I don't know what you're asking me about this for, I just clean the toilets around here"

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However, the show must go on. Gene has still been hanging around the offices asking about the status of a Pol mission, and he has a few very serious looking government guys behind him to back up his claim.

Valentina has been chosen to lead this mission, as Jeb is still recovering. It'll be a Pol flyby mission/Extended duration flight mission.

This time, as shown by this amazing graphic, we have shifted the boosters downwards, which should fix the issue of the rocket exploding horribly and failing the mission.

The rocket is the same as last time otherwise

Everyone in mission control is praying that the boosters separate cleanly, save Anthony. We don't like Anthony.

Luckily enough, we get a clean separation. Everything is norminal. Or is it nominal?

And another stage separation. This stage is low-thrust enough that we'll just burn all of the way to orbit

And the third stage, to finish up

The shroud is jettisoned, thus marking the third ever manned orbital flight.

Valentine begins the Trans-Pol injection burn, right at orbital sunset. Lots of oooh's and aah's from observers.

On the, actually only 3-hour or 1/2 day trip towards Pol, catching a glimpse of Tylo on the way. Sometime, we will return to Tylo, and next time with Kerbals.

Valentina reaches the actual flyby, but unfortunately for everyone waiting for  pretty photos of the surface, we don't get close enough to make any features out. To make things even worse, we go by on the dark side, completely obscuring our view

While leaving Pol, Val catches a shot of the dark side of Pol. Frankly, too dark for me.

Valentine makes an orbital correction burn to bring her Periapsis above the atmosphere. She is going to stay in orbit for 4 more days, much to her incessant groaning about "no leg room" and "the only food to eat is chicken salad." Frankly, I love chicken salad, so I see no issues.

She waves one last goodbye to Pol and Tylo, as mission control reminds her that they can't wave back, as they aren't sentient beings. She has to de-orbit as she has run out of food, and The Central Directorate demands she be brought back with minimal starvation. I guess they don't realize that malnutrition builds character, but whatever

Fuel and power separation

A bit toasty on reentry; one of the engineers remarked that the reentry plasma would be great to grill on

As the navigation computer broke, she ends up landing in the middle of the Kimilayan mountain range. I hope she brought the bear gun.

She manages to get out of the capsule, therefore proving herself better than Jebediah, and becomes the first Kerbal to reach Pol and return

 

 

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Edited July 13, 2023 by TRAPPIST-1E