[.19 PARTS] JebCorp M-209 SPHERE ball probe system

[Tommygun]

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That's no moon....that's hah....what the heck is that?

[Alephzorg]

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That's no moon....that's hah....what the heck is that?

[Tommygun]

I'm a little slow. It just dawned on me that these guys will take 1mm fuel tanks.

With these tanks and landing gear they can still go to most of the planets and moons.

Edited October 3, 2012 by Tommygun

[Aescwulf]

I'm a little slow. It just dawned on me that these guys will take 1mm fuel tanks.

With these tanks and landing gear they can still go to most of the planets and moons.

First the Death Star now R2-D2?

[pwnedbyscope]

First the Death Star now R2-D2?

HAHA yes this must be done, would be cool it there was a three wheeled rover base to go with it

[dishycourier]

Yup. I split the sphere at the center, so it should be 1m. You're lucky I wasn't paying attention -- it was supposed to be .5m. You'd have to strap it to the micro SRB.

I have a set of triangle trusses I was playing with. It's sturdy enough to have the truss extend the middle and put a payload on it. Hrmmmmm...... Can't do much with it until Friday though.

[Kreuzung]

I think it whould've been too small if it was half-sized, I like it in this size.

And BTW, it's 1.25m or size 1 but NOT 1m since the release of .16

[dishycourier]

I think it whould've been too small if it was half-sized, I like it in this size.

And BTW, it's 1.25m or size 1 but NOT 1m since the release of .16

Noted! I was a bit confused about the size changes.

[Runescope]

Sooooo, out of curiosity, I just did a test. I launched the Sphere (and only the sphere, no other parts or stages) and it made it to orbit, transited to the Mün, landed on the Mün, took off again, transited BACK to Kerbin, landed at the KSC, and took off again and made it to stable (if slightly elliptical) orbit.

You might want to adjust the fuel capacity or something down a notch

[dishycourier]

Sooooo, out of curiosity, I just did a test. I launched the Sphere (and only the sphere, no other parts or stages) and it made it to orbit, transited to the Mün, landed on the Mün, took off again, transited BACK to Kerbin, landed at the KSC, and took off again and made it to stable (if slightly elliptical) orbit.

You might want to adjust the fuel capacity or something down a notch

I don't disagree.

But you just downloaded it and tested it for me though, right? :-D

Future versions get TWR and fuel consumption changed. Trying to work out isp numbers as well.

[Aletus]

Had a thought about the stock landing leg if you could turn that into a shock absorbing balloon. You would need to incorporate the landing leg module specs for the balloon model.

For what I have experimented the stock landing leg, it can take impact speeds almost 200m/s even with it's low impact resistance value.

Edited October 3, 2012 by Aletus

[Matokage]

i tested it out and that Dickerson gone alone to the Mün! THAT THING FLEW TO THE MÜN BY ITSELF! I COULD SENT IT TO JOOL'S MOONS IF I BUILD A DELIVERY ROCKET!

[RRoan]

You don't need a booster to get to Jool.

The engine on this thing is p hilarious. I mean, single-stage-to-jool? lul

[Spearka]

with the small exception of the center of mass (which disallows me from actually rolling it as a form of exploring/moving on the planet) i am having fun with his

[dishycourier]

with the small exception of the center of mass (which disallows me from actually rolling it as a form of exploring/moving on the planet) i am having fun with his

Trying to fix this. Although I haven't mentioned it, it's a HUGE annoyance to me.

[Cthulufaic]

This looks very interesting! I might try this, even though I am trying to get to all the planets with Stock only. It's a little hard to appreciate an update

if I can't get to most of the content

[ramy]

I discovered that you can overlap the fuel tank with different other ones. I overlaped 9 tanks then used the tex engine and could travel to any planet except jool and moho. (it lands on water too)

I thought i would share it with you friends.

[Spearka]

I managed to fix thcenter of mass problem

you need to redo the weights so that the central pod weighs 0.17

and the science module is 0.1

hope that helped

[dishycourier]

I managed to fix thcenter of mass problem

you need to redo the weights so that the central pod weighs 0.17

and the science module is 0.1

hope that helped

I'll take a look. This significantly increases the weight of the system. I'll have to rebalance the engine.

I wanted to keep the whole thing low weight so the engine would be useless to anything else.

[Spearka]

I'll take a look. This significantly increases the weight of the system. I'll have to rebalance the engine.

I wanted to keep the whole thing low weight so the engine would be useless to anything else.

well, the important thing is is to keep both halves equal in weight

[halocon720]

Just began the second Mun flight of Beach Ball I with the SPHERE. First flight was spectacular, now I'm doing it again.

[Sixteenbit]

Made a discovery while testing that the community might like:

ISA mapper fits inside the pod.

[The Destroyer]

Im so happy right now, its sutch a good probe!

However, I notice that the engine has signifigently low crash tolerance, unlike the rest. Why?

[dishycourier]

Fixed some things. Updated description. I updated only hours before the site madness. I broke KSP Link is up on KSPort: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/jebcorp-model-209-sphere-ball-probe/

Also, local couch-surfing-eats-all-my-food roommate and ksp test dummy"Sixteenbit" will be taking over development of things I don't have done. It's too bad. I had a lot of REALLY fun parts that worked... two versions ago...

I'm contemplating releasing some of it as is (some are updated to .19) like the nuclear generator, some fuel tanks, monoprop tanks.

I can't get the ion engines to work anymore though. Still investigating that. Either way, it'll be up to Sixteenbit to do it.

Edited April 23, 2013 by dishycourier

[The Destroyer]

Holy crap this thing is alive?