What did you do in KSP1 today?

[inigma]

I made this. The I-80 Mk. III Space Shuttle Carrier. The Space Shuttle itself was designed by Westi29. I think I'm actually the first on these forums to do this successfully.

They said it was impossible... Thanks to the devs, .90 makes this possible.

Edited January 3, 2015 by inigma

[BJ Quest]

Two day's ago went for a night test flight in a newly design (minimum parts -Firespitter) aircraft. It work quite well slow speed but goes nearly forever. May try and put floats on it and see how it fly's.

Yesterday reach the science tech level of being able to use the stand alone warp drive in science mode. Warp vehicle/probe out on its way for testing when it reach safe testing altitude. [PS: science mode is a bit harder to do then career mode - at least longer]

[Red Iron Crown]

If I may ask, what are the Tanks/Textures you use for the Lander/Return Vehicle? These are absolutely geourgous.

That turned stainless steel texture is from Procedural Parts. Agree, it's gorgeous.

[quasarquantum]

yet another shuttle.

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[Richy teh space man]

Just got the last of the science from Eve, now to get back to Kerbin in one piece.

Hope this launcher works properly..

Eve launcher to orbit in foreground, the plane I used to travel across Eve is in the background.

[ghpstage]

Today I learnt that even a dead probe can have battery power turned back on. This will allow my future probes to go interplanetary before solar panels, as well as cut their costs!

It does raise questions as to why the heck I bothered battery spamming a probe to go to the Mun though....

Edited January 3, 2015 by ghpstage

[Engineer of Stuff]

I rescued Jeb from Mün orbit. He took a rocket that was meant to deliver crew to my base. The rocket could land, but not return.

[tieme.enkhuizen]

This is my second day that I have bought KSP.

Well, finally I get 2 probe's into orbit arround kerbin

one unmanned,

but one manned. Now I have to rescue the probe with the kerbin in it ;/

But, another thing for me to do

Afther that I think I'm going to the mun ;P

[Concentric]

Built a VTOL jet, and worked on the Mun contracts with Seanski in MunTherm.

This was my second attempt at making a VTOL. The first one was serial, with the vertical engines at the front and back. Not only did it look goofy, it spun out of control and was difficult to make hover. The offset tool has been rather helpful getting the CoT the right side of the CoM, and disabling the thrust of the rear jets while constructing allowed me to get things in line properly. A good bit of the modification was done in the VAB, once the majority of the structure was there - particularly setting up the action groups. Hopefully, the dry CoM won't be too far forward, but I haven't tested that. Clipped within are two Z-200 batteries, and an Okto in the bottom - girders gave me a good way to lower the CoM, attach torque and orient the probe core.

Seanski used the remains of the transfer stage to adjust orbits and get a couple of temperature readings for one contract, then missed the altitude window for the third of that one. I decided it would be better to move for a landing at this point, as the lander was now separated and operating under its own power, so I sent it to Zone Q303. I landed, got the Beta reading, took some reports and planted a flag. Then, I made a couple of hops.

A couple more temperature readings and I've completed the Zone Q303 contract. Some of the needed readings and reports lie on the same Great Circle as the current site, so it should be possible to grab a few in series before looking for the next landing - I'm not entirely certain how many landings this lander can do and still get home... and there's still a few to do here.

[RocketscientistV]

I managed to get a space station core into orbit despite the seperatrons falling off of the boosters and ripping apart the first stage.

[Liowen]

To I built a SSTO fighter-esk jet (kind of like a Mig 21) using the turbo jet and two Rockomax 24-77 radial mounted engines. I was able to get an ap of about 121 km and nearly got the pe around the planet, with more practice I maybe able to get nearly orbital with it.

Here Danbo is standing for a promo shot of the Smig

[Frank_G]

I have just finished my latest X-series SSTO spaceplane, the Arrowhead X3-DS Nano-SSTO. By far the best miniaturized spaceplane i have built so far. The craftfile and detailed description is available in my Spacecraft Exchange thread. Enjoy!

[Lunaran]

Today I learnt that even a dead probe can have battery power turned back on. This will allow my future probes to go interplanetary before solar panels, as well as cut their costs!

I can't find it, but someone posted a report (possibly in this thread somewhere) about getting a piece of uncontrolled debris to orbit by jettisoning it with the throttle open, and locking/unlocking the LFO resources as its forward vector tumbled past the direction he needed to accelerate.

[CatastrophicFailure]

That turned stainless steel texture is from Procedural Parts. Agree, it's gorgeous.

Beat me to it. Yes, the rocket is about 95% Procedural stuff. Now if there were just a way to make the Texture Replacer reflections work with that aluminum texture too.

[Blipser]

I've been testing my new 350 Tonne to orbit RSS lifter for an upcoming Mars mission, with... mixed results.

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[Illumia-Star]

The finishing modules were added to the Illumian Empire Space Outpost 1 "Golden Sunrise".

Meanwhile, at the Illumian Space Center, Luke, Gunser and Billy-Bobile Kerman do some station spotting. Sadly, all they can see is Minmus.

[coreross]

[Jouni]

I completed my Jool/Pol/Bop mission in the career mode.

The horizontal design works quite well on the steep slopes of Bop.

On the other hand, taking off requires some acrobatics, especially because the ship is usually facing the wrong direction.

Now I have almost enough money for the tier-3 R&D, with about 500 science points left after unlocking the last node in the tier-2 building.

[Liowen]

I went back to work on the Smig since now I know it can get into orbit, and easily at that, to add on more bits, since I may use this in a future mission. Added on RCS and RCS ports as well as a docking port underneath, and too it back up into orbit once more with even better success.

I managed to get to 143km on just the turbo jet before it wouldn't push anymore, and then used the Rockomax engines to get into a nearly circular orbit. (not too sabby for just eyeballing it I think!)

Of course I had to get one of the brave hand picked volunteer looking at his death machine.....errrr wonder of aviation

I did manage to land it on the runway after missing it.......twice. I did move the docking port a bit future forward and added two batteries, but all in all it works and flies very well.

[Lieutenant Hargrove]

I have succefully got a satellite into Mun's orbit. Now I am preparing for manned Mun mission. In the meantime I have made my first plane for land survey contracts, but it uncontrollable and has very short range. I need to l2p so hard.

[JacobT11]

After having introduced my partner to KSP, she built her first Mun capable rocket in career mode. Helped her fly the beast to the Mun and back. Love that feeling of getting others hooked on KSP.

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[Cuky]

today I have edited my persistent file for the 1st time since I have bought KSP 5-6 months ago to resurrect one of my Kerbals because he wasn't lost due to my piloting or engineering error. Jeb was, as I have said few days ago, stranded in low Kerbin orbit and was waiting for his fellow kerbonauts to develop technology to come and rescue him. While there I decided to use him to milk some EVA report science around Kerbin. So I went to the tracking station, selected his ship and went to fly. When ship loaded it was spinning rapidly and when it stopped it was on escape trajectory out of Kerbin SOI with only 2 parts on his ship (capsule and parachute). So I canceled that mission in tracking station and edited persistent file to bring Jeb back.

I have also upgraded administration building and flew another mission to test poodle engine and get some "in space near Kerbin" science.

[xiziz]

I got an actual payload into orbit and landed safely back on the runway, those huge wings make for a easy to land aircraft. Payload was, as I soon noticed, the better part of uncontrollable. I built it all symmetrical so I could use the gimbal to control it and get it into the correct orbit. However the decoupler I had it attached with was rotated 180°, causing the bulky part to stick to the sat. Will have to wait until I have SAS I think, 90 more science for a core that has it. Also discovered a few flaws in the prototype design, so moving the tailplane up, adding canards and some reaction wheels for better orbital control.

I Also managed to deorbit the failed sat, just barley.

[Ianwubby77]

Welp, I was correct that I grew bored of my modded career mode save. Now time to start a science save and get bored by that as well!

[NecroBones]

Tidying up the 3.75m part of the stock-revamp with Color Coded Canisters, by adding modeled slots (not via normal maps like the original stock models/textures):