RocketPilot573 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Another little something that I'm working on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton P. Nym Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Jim knew he should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque... -- Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphire Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Hey look, a successful dual launch! It's not like one of my rocket's upper stages snapped off or anything... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7rex Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) I love the new KAS and so does Bill Edited November 30, 2013 by 7rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zpox357 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) Re-investigating the crash site I posted about way back on this page.The rover is called "Marvin 1" (after I gave up on trying to spell Mervyn. Even spell check had no idea what I was trying to spell...) Edited November 30, 2013 by zpox357 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wampa842 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) Bob: Jeb, I know your tricks, I know you love crazy rockets. I don't think you can surprise m-- HOLY [FLUFFY BUNNIES]! My biggest payload so far. It's a large spherical LFO tank with a smaller monopropellant tank. Here's the payload and the upper stage boosters.On the launch pad. It's powered by my large workhorse, the Ilmatar launcher: six 3.75m liquid engines in asparagus configuration, and a more powerful central booster. The upper stage consists of a high Isp 2.5m engine for orbital maneuvers and four 1.25m boosters for a Hohmann transfer.Lesson learned: don't jettison your fairings until you're in space, especially if 80% of the struts connnect to it. To my surprise, the enormous bo-- I mean, tank didn't explode.At around 27 kilometers, I noticed a malfunction in the main engine: it consumed fuel a lot faster than it should. I still had one pair of radial tanks that should have been feeding the central one, but the fuel lines seemed to have been torn.Despite that, I still got the thing into orbit. Due to the amount of malfunctions, most of the ascent and rendezvous wasn't documented, but as the tank and ships were ready for docking, a kerbal at Mission Control sneezed and headbutted the Screenshot button.Jebediah: I call it... Unitesticle! Edited November 30, 2013 by Vanamonde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsalis Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 This landing not going so well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketPilot573 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Testing of the Orion Orbiter Shuttle Mk4 is now underway. It's cargo bay is capable of holding an entire orange tank with room to spare. The bay doors are fully functional, and will open and close on command.*5 minutes later, during landing*Hey, where'd that wing go?!RIPOh, WOW, they actually survived! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Camelotking524 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Bill: So you thought it was a good idea to build a shelter in case we got stuck.Bob: YepBill: And then you got yourself stuckBob:Yep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekes Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 <us army="" reville="" plays="">*US army Reville plays*</us> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 build a shelter in case we got stuck Looks a bit drafty for a moon shelter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton P. Nym Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 After a month-long incubation in a Sun-ward orbit and a brief period of fiery aerobraking, a baby probe hatches out of its shell. -- Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadweasel Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 *snip*After a month-long incubation in a Sun-ward orbit and a brief period of fiery aerobraking, a baby probe hatches out of its shell. -- SteveAwww it's so CUTE! Does it bite? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panfish5 Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 Awww it's so CUTE! Does it bite?Cute? that satellite dish looks like a giant mouth that would snap someones head off:)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton P. Nym Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 (edited) Awww it's so CUTE! Does it bite?Given that it's supposed to orbit Ike Gilly and I managed to put it in retrograde orbit around Eve somehow, kinda. *sigh* One very long ion burn, coming up... -- Steve Edited December 1, 2013 by Anton P. Nym Fixing a moon-naming thinko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronda Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 Assembling my latest fuel truck in orbit.I didn't take a shot of the starting configuration, because it wasn't until I almost clipped off one of my lights that I realized there might be some hijinks worth saving.But you can see the basic idea. The top stage of the fuel truck, as launched, consisted of a lander pod crewed by the intrepid Gilmund Kerman, attached to a nuke by a pair of Clamp-o-Tron Seniors.Then I sent up a probe with a top stage consisting of a probe core and a thrust package bracketing an orange tank with the Seniors.Having discarded the probe's thrust package, I'm now reconfiguring into fuel truck mode. This consists of moving the fuel truck's nuke to the end of the probe's orange tank.then disconnecting the probe core and rotating the fuel truck's control module into its place.That was a bit tricky in that the center of mass around which the combined control modules rotated wasn't the physical center, so I had to stop for a moment and crab away from the orange tank.Once Gilmund was in place, the probe core is discarded et voila fuel truck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exhilarate Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 This was my first landing on the Mun, and after a little while I noticed that there would be an eclipse with Kerbin (dunno what that's called, Solar Eclipse?) Anyways, I managed to snap a few screenshots, it looked amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton P. Nym Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 (edited) After a month-long incubation in a Sun-ward orbit and a brief period of fiery aerobraking, a baby probe hatches out of its shell.And here's the little hatchling making its first call home with data, in a 10km x 9km sunsynchronous polar orbit of Gilly. (After much, much, much fussing around with the ions... but I don't think I could've recovered the mission from my botched orbit insertion without all that delta-V aboard. Certainly I couldn't have braked it at Gilly's orbit, hovered there for a few time-accelerated hours until it came around, and then boosted to match orbits with another craft.) -- StevePS: Edited December 1, 2013 by Anton P. Nym adding second image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingtj44 Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 (edited) My 324 ton ship as it orbits Kerbin....so beautiful. Edited December 1, 2013 by Kingtj44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panfish5 Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 My 324 ton ship as it orbits Kerbin....so beautiful.Is that thing armed? Also what is the part count on the beautiful beast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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