Van Disaster Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) Not sure anything's going to beat GreeningGalaxy today...Did the first live test of my 3.5m carrier and the test assembly of some kethane mining components - a qualified success. Flight to orbit was completely trouble free, cargo - 71t - released fine and I was left with enough fuel to take the whole lot to Duna & come home - I've no idea what this thing will be capable of lifting but this felt like it was empty.Stacks docked together fine ( although they'll need a tug ).Dumped a bit of fuel ( about 6k units in the end! ). Re-entry was beautiful, popped the airbrakes & flaps out and it just gently slowed down, and then when I was on finals it just lost the ability to fly straight. I think I made 5 touch-and-goes before I just started flying in circles about 40km out to sea & tuned Pilot assistant until it'd fly reasonably straight, and then after a completely flat approach put it down at about 140m/s. Luckily the brakes are absurdly good.Matt Kerman can't tell which way is up after all that. Edited December 1, 2014 by Van Disaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbortButton Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Finished the tech tree using only science from Kerbin, Mn, and Minmus. First Eve lander/orbiter had a partial success. The lander landed successfully but the orbiter didn't have enough delta-v to reestablish a stable orbit and crashed into the surface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamuchi Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Not exactly ksp, but reached a personal mile stone for finishing the main parts of acrylic tube for cooling, should have picked something smaller and easier as first experiment with that stuff, just 6 simple ones remaining to do thankfully and some leveling with tiny corrections It ain`t as easy as it looks...it`s a nightmare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennsport27 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Created a little module for supplying my 100km station with food, and decided to try it out by making a supply run. Ended up with my closest ever orbital rendezvous, I passed my station within 800m while circularizing my orbit, and had cancelled out velocity at around 1000m. Launchpad to docking was 13 minutes 59 seconds game time, which I'm sure isn't a record of any kind, but I was stunned I was able to pull off something like that accidentally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyRender Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I built a FAR-compatible VTOL spaceplane. With a bit of tweaking, it can now reach orbit, land, reach orbit again, and land again. I made it as a nice little gift for a fellow KSP player who wanted a Laythe multi-trip spaceplane that could do VTOL. 'Twas fun to build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Added a couple of modules...A cargo ship...And a returnable experiment package... to my space station today....... and also something blew up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodion Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 After perusing magazine publicity shots of '60s interceptor aircraft, kerbal engineering interns unanimously decided that low aspect ratio, high-load wings were by far the coolest way to increase supersonic aircraft efficiency and submitted this probe-carrying X-plane for evaluation.it worked! this slightly different version as flown has some decoupler mount points on the wing ends from RATO pods (weren't needed in practice), and one of the solar panels didn't deploy because it got melted on ascent and stopped working. unloaded, it got into orbit with 1,370 dV remaining, enough for a circummunar trip and change. i might actually press this one into service, assuming i can work out how to re-enter it safely (haven't tried yet). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brofessional Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freshmeat Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Spent 15 minutes trying to connect a ship to my space station before realizing the front had a Clamp-o-tron Jr. Also realised that vernors make for good emergency brakes, if you remember to shut them down when trying to do any close maneuvres, as they unbalanced RCS for retrograde on rotation. In the end, I managed to figure out the problem and dock my ship to a sidewards-facing dock, my luck it was meant to be a multiple docking point in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treldon Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I have built and delivered my first Mun and Minmus bases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Been a while since I'd played the game in earnest. Attempted to get my Emu 7 spaceplane working once again - still failed to make orbit and at this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to do a redesign. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong with turbojets; I can usually get the designs into space just fine on RAPIERs...Also flew my Small Fries 7 Mk2 plane into orbit. I'm thinking I've finally got a good ascent and mission profile on that thing down - now the big trick will see if I can actually catch a tater with the probe payload. Might've gotten it on this last ascent had I actually turned to a proper heading early into the flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tw1 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Lately, in my KSP:I loaded up my main save, and found vessels which were supposed to be in LKO, flying out into interplanetary space. Lucky, it wasn't impossible to fix, thanks to hyperedit.Today, I found none of my saves were loading. Mucked about with the tutorials, while working out the problem. I don't think Jeb is listening to Gene's ladder instructions.Solved the problem, one of my saves had been truncated- restored it from a backup.And last, but not least, I finished the images for the next installment of OoE/CoM!Coming soon to the fanworks forum near you!*Hides from Calculuswarrior*Seriously though, The Kold War is also definitely worth the read. I expect to have the writing done later this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xacktar Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 woke up super early this morning, decided to build a speedboat.Can do 75m/s over water, pretty fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GloriousWater Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Also woke up really early, and landed on Eeloo at 6am without the use of a single nuke:And Kerbal Engineer says I even have enough delta-v to return Full album coming soon​TM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotsAndSpaceships Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Went to Duna just for funs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragosnat Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Built and got this up in orbit yestarday:Already have Ideas on how I can make it better or at least more effecient, maybe. Also the ion drive is attached to an undocking probe that will be used to explore the sun. For fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LABHOUSE Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Launched my minmus station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jouni Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I've been avoiding my 6.4x Tylo mission for a while now. Building the giant ship was fun, and even flying the 30 refueling missions was kind of relaxing, but now the actual mission is starting to feel too much like work.Meanwhile, I built a casual little 1200-tonne rocket and launched it to Minmus.I'm not sure about the stuff Minmus is made of, but it doesn't look safe.The rocket was a bit overengineered, as I had around 1 km/s of delta-v remaining after completing the mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike9606 Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I've been avoiding my 6.4x Tylo mission for a while now. Building the giant ship was fun, and even flying the 30 refueling missions was kind of relaxing, but now the actual mission is starting to feel too much like work.Meanwhile, I built a casual little 1200-tonne rocket and launched it to Minmus.http://jltsiren.kapsi.fi/ksp/0.25/big_minmus_1.jpegI'm not sure about the stuff Minmus is made of, but it doesn't look safe.http://jltsiren.kapsi.fi/ksp/0.25/big_minmus_2.jpegThe rocket was a bit overengineered, as I had around 1 km/s of delta-v remaining after completing the mission.*gasp* The Great Ice Lakes of Minmus are melting! There is no other explanation of the kerbals falling through the ice like that!****It's probably just a collider issue with the 6.4x thingie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRV Ron Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Landed on Minmus with Professor Kerbinstein's latest creation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGCJerry Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Launched by biggest rocket to date. Decided to see if I can drill for kethane on Mun.2 mobile Kethane miners & 2 mobile refineries to Mun. 166 tons for the skycrane & vehicles & return (maybe) lander.Total launch DV: 5,900 km/sTotal Weight: 2,146 tonsParts: 560 on launchpadI do have to do another launch to bring more kerbals and a part cart for the KAS mod. I'm really loving that KAS mod. May bring along some scansat stuff too.I know, I'm completely lame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon7722 Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 A short science trip to Duna:-A wallpaper-worthy shot if you ask me :-Some aerobreaking:-Sandstorm on Duna:-One of the most interesting landings i had to do. Ditched my landing gear and managed to land on a slope like this only with SAS keeping my craft upright on Ike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivisionByZero Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I lost Bill in a launch accident. My rocket second stage consisted of a single mainsail which was throttled to a TWR of 1.05 to avoid overheating. This, however, succumbed to gravity and pitched over WAY too soon. When I tried to correct with the next stage, it flipped over and broke up in the atmosphere. The lander was a 1-way to mun with the return capsule coming on the next mission. As a result, there were no chutes and splashdown was murderous. Poor Bill... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lextacy Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I invented a secondary payload delivery vehicle that pushed 2 lander probes to the Mun, Also launched the 7 meter Nova to minmus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahlzun Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Challenged a nooby friend to land on the Mun before the end of the year.Not a massive challenge, but still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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