purpleivan Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Leg 9 of the trip along Kerbin's coastline is at an end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGamer11 Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 (edited) Greetings from the Mun! Edited February 26, 2019 by SGamer11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleivan Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Leg 10 of the Kerbin Sorta-Circumnavigation is complete and here's a few pics. Juice Goose tanker hitting the afterburners to get a short takeoff. Rendezvous with the Coastal Cruiser. Val's getting bored with the terrain in this neck of the woods and fell asleep on deck. Some mountains some way inland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleivan Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 (edited) More "circumnavigation" adventures. This episode staring tanker planes and introducing someone in their first time in front of the camera. Edited March 2, 2019 by purpleivan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delay Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakyLeVrai Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Built and tested this big space truck, to refill a Space Station in Low Eve Orbit, in 1 single trip. I could have built it with huge size 4 tanks but, the ship was too long to my taste... so I devised a slightly more compact design with a more industrial look. Kudos to @SQUAD for the Mk2 lander's rover look RCS is powerful enough to take-off from Gilly at full load (4 Verniers! ain't that cute?). It has enough fuel to deliver the payload and go back to Gilly. And 4 fuel cells to keep mining during night time (takes a couple of days to refill everything when I land on ore-poor biomes...). This big Eve exploration mission is taking shape. I'll make a movie out of it, this planet is an awesome engineering challenge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleivan Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 It's leg 14 of the Kerbin Sorta-Circumnavigation and the crew grabbed some pictures of the days' events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleivan Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Today's drop on the most recent leg (16) of the K.S.C. Evening flying. Fueling at sunrise. Then cruising under the Mun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleivan Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 (edited) More mountain climbing with Bob and Jeb in Barbeque Bay. On the way up. Looking at the ones they'll be climbing tomorrow. Edited March 12, 2019 by purpleivan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mignear Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Oh no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleivan Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Pictures from a descent... heading down the crater rim wall in Kerbin Sorta-Circumnavigation. I definitely think this is the best looking region on kerbin I've come across in the travels so far... certainly the most dramatic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkeletorHottestPersonAlive Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Polar Orbit in Real Solar System Feels rewarding doing the simplest of tasks in a more realistic scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleivan Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 More from the gift that keeps on giving (the big crater bay). Bob an Val set a new record for the trip, at 5.7km up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleivan Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 (edited) Bob finally makes it back to the boat in the K.S.C. Sunny mornings. The way to the coast. Climbing slopes. At the top. Passing the Crater Rim DSN dish, high on the mountaintop, on the way to the rover. Edited March 20, 2019 by purpleivan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Crew transfer over Minmus Launching into the unknown... Destiny Awaits And one more, with a funny caption: Val: "I can see my house from here!" Maucal: "Cool. Hand me Snak-Pak 203... It's going to be a looooong trip, and you know how Kathmund gets when she's hungry..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrbitsR4Sissies Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Still enjoying my first savegame doing most missions completely with Kerbals at the helm, rather than a probe core. (Except for Eve. I'm still not ready for an Eve crewed mission.) I was all too aware of the high delta-V needs of getting to and leaving Moho. So Jeb is sent alone in a modified lighter-weight Apollo-style configuration. A Rhino injection stage helped with LKO escape and Moho inclination burns. At Moho orbital capture, the Rhino gave its finest and last dV before the NRV nuclear stage used 3/4s of its power for capture and circularization. The lander was fueled to easily reach the Moho surface and return. Included was the smallest rover I could make for a planned long drive. On landing, Jeb tipped the entire lander upside down and the deployed rover went flying. Thankfully, both recovered without any damage. On to the canyon. It took 6 hours total in real-time to drive 200 km total to reach the canyon. I like doing these drives as it adds a little realism and I'm not bored by the game's vistas. I've sent robotic rovers along this same path so there were no terrain surprises. Crossed over 5 biomes in this trip, so it was not a wasted trip. To avoid leaving Jeb to freeze in a long Moho night, he returned to the command module as soon as the mission was done to await a transfer window, which wasn't long in coming with the planet's fast orbital speed. The NRV nuclear engine gave its last dV before a lightweight but very high dV ion engine took over. The command module has no heat shield since Moho eats such things. Jeb will eventually reach Kerbin, get into a low orbit at home for pickup by one of my passenger shuttles. I'll send a small old rescue robot to the empty command module to deorbit it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwhip Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I may have installed approximately all the mods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Starwhip said: I may have installed approximately all the mods It looks like you missed this one: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ol’ Musky Boi Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 6 minutes ago, Triop said: broom broom mother truckers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottadges Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 I thought I'd share some of my "greatest hits" as far as designs and spacecraft: Diptera Flying Rover Munar Corps Drilling Station (MCDS) - Alpha 75 Duna Rover - Inflatable / Heatshield lander system Spirit of Jebediah Orbital Vehicle Munar Hab Station (docked with Spirit of Jebediah) Olympus Orbital Facility Experimental SSTO Multi-launch Space Station (Tantares & BDB exclusively) Apollo-style Moonshot (when ReStock released) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Kerman Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Here's a craft I've been working on. It's kind of a Space Shuttle/Super Guppy mashup. Definitely useful for getting those pesky over-size payloads to space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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