Vahal Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 (edited) BJ Quest I don't see any karbonite antenna, I see 2 SCANSat antenna, DMagic Imager and what could be KDEX but no Karbonite antenna. Edited October 31, 2014 by Vahal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Messing aroundThe podracer layout is terrifying. The only time this has landed survivably was when it hit the SPH. Which is what it was designed to do, so, SUCCESS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smysha Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 I just started remote tech a week ago, Bob's/Felbourn on the forum helped me quite a bit: 1. get 3 geostatsats in orbit 2. launch a couple of gps like satelites with a 2 hour interval in a polar orbit. 3. Add a highly eccentric polar orbit (molnya) to every body where you are planning to go to.4. repeat step 1 and 2 for all these bodies, though geostat is not requiredand you're good to go.Thank you! I've tried mr. Manley's way to launch them (IQ-2 or 3, I believe), but managed to fail somehow. Twice. That guide should help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WooDzor Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Thank you! I've tried mr. Manley's way to launch them (IQ-2 or 3, I believe), but managed to fail somehow. Twice. That guide should help.thank bob, he's awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major "zubb" Tom Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 (edited) I used FAR to attempt a spaceplane.Are these speeds normal? I ask because I can barely get a plane off the deck in vanilla and I just got FAR. (It is nice)EDIT:This plane lost some parts then aimed down. It exploded when I tried to nose it up again. Other than a jet car that may be the fastest and lowest thing I have ever made.SUPER EDIT:I got this pile to space. It has jet fuel forever, but barely enough rocket fuel for orbit. I can probably get it back.NUCLEAR EDIT: The next one needs some drouge chutes:( Edited October 31, 2014 by Major "zubb" Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torquemadus Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Today I updated my Kerbooster fly-back stage to use the new wing parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWEdeadman Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Landed on Duna, and took back off without doing a part test I was supposed to do... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khorso Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 At this point, you'll want to start the slimming down process of the design. Try getting a few orbits, and monitor how much excess jet fuel you have. Then in the SPH, reduce that excess fuel from your starting fuel tank. It also looks like you could get rid of about half of those struts. Weight on small SSTO's is a huge clincher!-Khorso Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LABHOUSE Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Worked on my stock orion it can get into orbit from kerbin to any planet or moon and can land on all planets and most moons and it can get to orbit from all planets but jool, eve, and eeloo, and it can reach orbit from all moons except jool moons (runs out of the second stage fuel after duna apogee). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theoderich Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 I failed to build ComSat network around the Kerbin. RemoteTech is hard.In addition to the already mentioned stuff: If you use MapSat as well make your mapping satellites carry one of the small foldout dishes, the largest antenna you got and whatever you need to reach Kerbin and your relays there from the intended destination. That way your mapping satellite which needs a highly inclined orbit anyway can also act as a com relay.Saves time, effort and ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticCossack51 Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Well I drove a light tank in to the pool. We only just realized that the water was a prank from R&D so it flipped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xub313 Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 I put a satellite in Moho orbit today. I think I could have landed too, but I wasn't going to risk the mission.It turns out getting to Moho isn't that bad with an Eve gravity assist. I hardly used the LV-N at all. I'll probably send a lander with the same rocket.My space program now has over 600k funds. I'll finally be able to fund my big expensive rockets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodion Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Are these speeds normal? I ask because I can barely get a plane off the deck in vanilla and I just got FAR. (It is nice)One of the cool things about FAR and NEAR is that is gets rid of the "soupy" exaggerated air density at low altitudes that come with the stock game, so you can accelerate your vehicles a lot more easily from sea level. of course, the other side of that coin is that you can no longer rely on the magic "cushion" of air to catch your re-entering vehicles and slow them down to ~100 m/s as in stock.anyway, tonight i finalized several designs for an upcoming Munbase (3 down, 4 to go, it's 10x as much effort as i originally planned), including a new rover:i'm particularly happy with the rover since in the past the great majority of my rover designs have been characterized by questionable COMs, improptu aerobatics, "what just exploded?", etc. but this one for once actually just worked great more or less from the start; it's stable, it's fast, it can be delivered easily with a simple sky-crane, it's well-equipped with various gizmos, it's TAC- and KAS-compliant, and just generally works well. hopefully it will show up in more places than just the Mun at a later date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJ Quest Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 (edited) BJ Quest I don't see any karbonite antenna, I see 2 SCANSat antenna, DMagic Imager and what could be KDEX but no Karbonite antenna.No antenna on these particular ships. I can get one Karboite antenna on the top satellite of the stack but have not figured out a good way yet to do them all (side mounting would work). However I am thinking on that issue. It may be more effect to have a karbonite antenna on ships that go out to mine karbonite. Possible? I do have two small ships that I have been experimenting with in finding and mining the Mun but currently not able to mine enough to get back to Kerbin. Probable solution - make bigger ships to hold more fuel or created fuel. No current screen shot of these ships yet. Respectfully - BJ Quest Edited November 1, 2014 by BJ Quest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 I put a satellite in Moho orbit today. I think I could have landed too, but I wasn't going to risk the mission.Nicely done. I was content to just have my probes whizz past it, and that was likewise having taken an Eve gravity assist.Just now I set said probes on course for Eve again. Having taken different routes in they actually passed by Moho within about an hour of each other, but now they diverge again, with one set for Eve right away and the other waiting several orbits. I'm hoping to get them to fly past Duna and beyond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargamel Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 (edited) Made a SSTOAL today. Single Stage to Orbit and Landing. By accident.I was just testing the core of a new booster I was building, and found it would enter orbit under it's own weight, but yet still had 1k dv left. Scary thing was there was so much thrust (9.5 twr) upon landing, it was in free fall till the engines were lower than the water tower. Then *POOF* Graceful landing at 10g's.Now the engineers are just trying to figure out what to do with it. The crawler can't get to that side of the launch pad, and they don't have anything big enough to lay it down! Edited November 1, 2014 by gargamel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregA Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 First I got stranded in orbit around Mun with my space crane. I had parked it in orbit and was time accelerating to a maneuver node, and neglected to notice it was pointing away from the Sun for multiple orbits, allowing the battery to drain...So I mounted a rescue. I attempted to use an experimental space plane for the rescue. For the first time I managed to get my space plane in actual orbit, rather than a sub orbital. It was docking with the Kerbalnational Space station. Ran out of fuel 4 meters away from docking...Called it a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamboRoth Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Made a ground-attack aircraft with BD's Armory and various other mods. Handles pretty nice, and has a hidden bomb-bay with 2 bombs in it. Then I sent another satellite to Eve to survey for mining. Another successful day for the KCEB! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JebNeedsHelp Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Made another flight with my first successful plane, only I went too far out over the water, and couldn't make it back to land. The wings all broke off when I made my water landing, but the rest of the plane stayed afloat and Bill was just fine. I'll try again to get back to the runway, but then I'll start making those changes you guys mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JebNeedsHelp Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Please excuse the double post, but I just got my plane to circle around (out of fuel again, though) and land on the runway. I'm psyched!Not the straightest approach, but I'll take it:And once again, Bill gets out for a photo-op.The rest of the weekend's pretty much out, but soon I'll start making improvements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xub313 Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Moho probe landing! The surface is quite boring however; there are a few interesting places (like the poles) but everything else is completely flat. I still think it looks cool from orbit though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smysha Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Like a week ago, somebody stole a pine sapling from my friend's garden. I don't know who, I don't know why... But I think I found it.Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 More goofing around Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekes Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 I got a new flag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSlash27 Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 I tested on Kerbin and Eve to find the correlation between altitude and Isp using LV-N atomic rockets. The results are surprising...KerbinAltitude/ Isp0 /229 1.7Km/ 390 (equivalent to Aerospike)5Km/ 588 (closer to vacuum Isp than atmospheric)10Km/722 (90% of vacuum Isp)15Km/772 (over 95% of vacuum Isp)20Km/789 (nearly 99% of vacuum Isp)Evealtitude/ Isp<11 Km/ 22014 Km/ 390 (equivalent to aerospike)16 Km/ 510 (midway between atm and vac figures)25 Km/720 (90% of vacuum figure)30 Km/760 (95% of vacuum figure)41 Km/792 (99% of vacuum figure) The moral of the story: Anywhere other than Eve, the Isp(atm) figure may be safely ignored altogether. On Eve, anything other than the vertical boost phase may be safely calculated using the vacuum figure. Once you get to the gravity turn, you're virtually in vacuum as far as the engines are concerned.Best,-Slashy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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