SmiteZero Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Also:'one does not simply launch into Mun-dor...'It\'s a space squid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omnivore Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Wheel-o-doom: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmiteZero Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Wheel-o-doom: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flixxbeatz Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sting_auer Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaSilisko Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteevyT Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 How exactly do they steer that thing? Do they have to carefully shift their weight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoot Knight Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 And oddly enough Bob is the one enjoying their tanning break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flixxbeatz Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Let them do this in real life. 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherDalfite Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 What is that thing Nova? A plank of wood? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteevyT Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 What is that thing Nova? A plank of wood?I believe it is a sheet of plywood. Actually, it looks about like two 3/4' sheets to be exact. (Although, I\'m not sure even that would be as thick as what is in the picture) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utilitas Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Ignorance is bliss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzbobzx Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Parachutes are cool.http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/425/explosion1.pnghttp://img846.imageshack.us/img846/8172/explosion2.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utilitas Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 The prototype of the new GraviHopper MK1Jeb didn\'t like it.He thinks gliding aircrafts are black magic and should be burned and exploded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flixxbeatz Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 while orbiting the Mun, preparing to release the KRAIL probes (video soon) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softweir Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 while orbiting the Mun, preparing to release the KRAIL probes (video soon)Kerbals fly energy-saving lightbulbs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flixxbeatz Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Kerbals fly energy-saving lightbulbs?Not my fault, just noticed it right now either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyCubes Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Sea Dragon style rocket launch from the ocean. The Kerbal way to launch rockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flixxbeatz Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Pestilence Lander Module (Disaster Mk.III) Successful Munar touchdown. Made it, at last...Sea Dragon style rocket launch from the ocean. The Kerbal way to launch rockets.how the f***? lol did you tried to fly it? 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Sunnrise while orbiting the moonOne small step for Kerbs One giant leap for Kerbkind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC3craze Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Sunnrise while orbiting the moonOne small step for Kerbs One giant leap for Kerbkind...Why does your lander use only RCS? That\'s a little hard to land with, because it\'ll either be underpowered for braking, or overpowered for landing; depending on how far you are from the surface and how fast your falling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Why does your lander use only RCS? That\'s a little hard to land with, because it\'ll either be underpowered for braking, or overpowered for landing; depending on how far you are from the surface and how fast your falling.The original spaceship arrives to the mun with enough fuel to do a retro-burn and cancel all vertical velocity. I drift downwards toward the surface of the mun for the last few metres controling my descent using RCS. The difficult part was to achieve escape velocity from the mun and slow down for kerbin re-entry. (Managed to do it once...sorry no pics) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC3craze Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 The original spaceship arrives to the mun with enough fuel to do a retro-burn and cancel all vertical velocity. I drift downwards toward the surface of the mun for the last few metres controling my descent using RCS. The difficult part was to achieve escape velocity from the mun and slow down for kerbin re-entry. (Managed to do it once...sorry no pics)The way I typically get back: 1. Get into the Mun\'s orbit with my ascent stage2. Change my apoapsis so that it is the opposite direction of the Mun\'s orbit 3. Once in Kerbin\'s SOI I deorbit and land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flixxbeatz Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 The way I typically get back: 1. Get into the Mun\'s orbit with my ascent stage2. Change my apoapsis so that it is the opposite direction of the Mun\'s orbit 3. Once in Kerbin\'s SOI I deorbit and landHere\'s my way of going back to Kerbin... skip at around 3:07 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alchemist Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Well, designing a spacecraft often goes one of two ways:a) making a bit overpowered craft that surely can make this mission. After analyzing the flight data, creating something much smaller, but still capable of doing the specified mission. making a craft for a simple mission, then after analyzing the flight data, deciding that after a minor upgrade this thing will be capable of doing a more complex missionI suddenly made both at once.I tried to optimize the Munar Lander: turned escape stage into ascend/return stage, made lander stage smaller... Reduced the launch vehicle.... After a fully successful (except that something happened to graphics driver during reentry and game screen turned blank) mission I realized that the launch vehicle is... a bit modernized (just some gimbaling LFEs and a bit tuned staging) SL-2.5 ??? the lightest launcher in SL series (shaped like SL-3, but even lighter than SL-2).After ultraheavy (and ultralaggy) SL-4 (or even 2 candidates/modifications) that was replaced by superheavy (and laggy too) SL-3.5 for Munar missions, it was rather strange to successfully deliver a lander with a light SL-2.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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