KSP Grandmaster! (Land on every body of the Kerbal System!)

[John FX]

how did you do it so quickly.

By sleeping about six hours a night and doing literally nothing else except play KSP. I launched all the ships in a block one after another into LKO then checked which planets I could just do a burn to right away (Eve, Gilly, Duna, Ike, Kerbin, Jool) and sent those off. I used Alarm Clock which lets you set maneuver nodes and keep them if you switch ships. It stops warp 15 minutes before either a maneuver node or a change in SOI. This meant I could treat all the missions as one big mission and let alarm clock keep track of when stuff was due to need attention and what I was planning to do at that point (burn, adjust, orbit, land). It would have been impossible without Alarm Clock. Spending an hour making a universal lander helped because I was always flying a known quantity. The ship is solid enough to burn at 4x physics warp so all the burns took a quarter of the time which was nice. There was a lot of quicksaving going on especially with some of the landings (gave up on Tylo eventually and designed Universal Lander 2 which had 1500 more Dv and sent that to tylo, moho and eeloo) Landings were easy on places with an atmosphere although laythe took a couple of tries simply to hit land. Moho was just hard to get to and into orbit with enough Dv to land and Eeloo just took a looong time to get to. Tylo was a surprise, I wasn`t expecting such a large moon (That`s no moon) and Bop did bop me because I tried to orbit at 15km...

In game it took about 8 years, i real life it took about 40 hours. I put in about 3, 18 hour days. So it took a lot of time, I just did *nothing* else.

[John FX]

Just realised that in the challenge description you call the star Sol instead of Kerbol.

Are you an alien?

[Francesco]

Just realised that in the challenge description you call the star Sol instead of Kerbol.

Are you an alien?

I don't know about "Sol", but "Kerbol" is incorrect: it has never been the in-game name of the Sun. blame the community

[zekes]

yeah the in game name is Sol....

[Francesco]

yeah the in game name is Sol....

no, it's Sun! where did you read that?

[xandski]

I thought it was called Kerbol. To be fair, it makes slightly more sense and sounds really cool too

[Ozymandias]

Did I get in?

[John FX]

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Kerbol

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[TD=colspan: 2, align: center] Kerbol as seen from orbit. [/TD]

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[TD=colspan: 2, align: center] Star [/TD]

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[TD=colspan: 2] Physical Characteristics [/TD]

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[TD] Equatorial Radius [/TD]

[TD] 261 600 000 m [/TD]

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[TD] Surface Area [/TD]

[TD] 8.5997404×10¹⁷ m² [/TD]

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[TD] Mass [/TD]

[TD] 1.7565670×10²⁸ kg [/TD]

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[TD] Gravitational Parameter [/TD]

[TD] 1.1723328×10¹⁸ m³/s² [/TD]

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[TD] Density [/TD]

[TD] 234.24098 kg/m³ [/TD]

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[TD] Surface Gravity [/TD]

[TD] 17.1 m/s² [/TD]

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[TD] Escape Velocity [/TD]

[TD] 94 672.01 m/s [/TD]

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[TD] Sidereal Rotation Period [/TD]

[TD] 432 000.00 s [/TD]

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[TD] 5 d 0 h 0 m 0 s [/TD]

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[TD] Sidereal Rotational Velocity [/TD]

[TD] 3 804.8 m/s [/TD]

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[TD] Synchronous Orbit [/TD]

[TD] 1 508 045.29 km [/TD]

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[TD] Sphere of Influence [/TD]

[TD] ∞ [/TD]

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[TD=colspan: 2] Atmospheric Characteristics [/TD]

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[TD] Atmosphere Present [/TD]

[TD] No [/TD]

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Kerbol (also known as the Sun, and the Star) is the star at the center of the Kerbol System.

[The Jedi Master]

I'm going to be doing this, I'm even going to be writing an AAR for it. I'll report back in this thread when I'm done!

[Spartwo]

.burning for eeloo had 13 free minutes.edit:3 left pol,tylo,lathe

Edited May 25, 2013 by Spartwo

[John FX]

desperate measures,stopped using mission specific ships.burning for eeloo had 13 free minutes.edit:3 left pol,tylo,lathe

Leave plenty of Dv for Tylo, it`s like landing on kerbin with no atmosphere to slow you down.

[Spartwo]

pulled an all nighter It`s currently 6am and I am finished.just wish I could get a plane to lathe.pg2

Edited May 25, 2013 by Spartwo

[Francesco]

the wiki entry about the Sun/Kerbol hasn't been written by Squad.

[John FX]

the wiki entry about the Sun/Kerbol hasn't been written by Squad.

I see. It`s just called sun and Kerbol was given to it by forum members.

[John FX]

Well I thought I would bump the thread and show a flag on all the planets as I have already landed a kerbal everywhere. I believe I am the first to put a flag everywhere.

Had to redo Mun because of the change with 0.20 and I thought I would redo Kerbin and get closer to home. (also I wanted to show off v0.1 of my flag)

Moho

Eve

Gilly

Kerbin

Mun

Minmus

Duna

Ike

Dres

Laythe

Tylo

Vall

Pol

Bop

Eeloo

[zekes]

Nice! looks really good.

[Spartwo]

did I qualify?also Ozymandias did it.

[zekes]

yes. both added.

[Aurora-Aerospace]

Hello!

I am finishing a few designs for the outer planets currently. Look for our completion soon!

[John FX]

did I qualify?also Ozymandias did it.

COngratulations to both you and ozymandias!

[FirstyB]

So what's the amount of extra kudos for placing a flag on every body? No flag, no country (http://youtu.be/UTduy7Qkvk8).

And if MechJeb is out, i'm guessing the Laser systems for planetary angles is out as well? I've been cutting triangles out of card and holding them up to the screen ..

[Domesicabbage]

I have started my journey... I am going to try and do it with the same design of ship again and again and again. :]

Well 1st day 3 bodies: Kerbin, Mun, Laythe

Tomorrows aims: Minmus, Eve and Gilly

Edited May 29, 2013 by Domesicabbage
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[zekes]

So what's the amount of extra kudos for placing a flag on every body? No flag, no country (http://youtu.be/UTduy7Qkvk8).

And if MechJeb is out, i'm guessing the Laser systems for planetary angles is out as well? I've been cutting triangles out of card and holding them up to the screen ..

Yeah no lazers. Just use the in game nodes.. or eyeball the angle from this website

[FirstyB]

I've been using that site, absolute life saver.

Just tried my first attempt at landing on Tylo, after landing on Vall first. Holy damn its hard...

[Thefallenhun]

I'd totally do all of this, but i'd have to redo several landings removing parts and not adding the mechjeb control, I don't use its autopilot, just the extra information is REALLY handy. Otherwise its a damn protractor to tell when the phase angle is. I've gone everywhere except gilly moho and a few of jool's moons.