Torgo Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 just under 250 KM of driving a rover around Mimnus to complete three science contracts. The first was a single remaining experiment to complete a contract started by the first rover, which was eaten by the Kraken. Then it was a 70 km drive northwest to complete all 3 experiments on the next contract, then 175 km drive to the final contract (a not so direct route to collect science from biomes and to have only 1 climb down a 30 degree grade. Finally, arrived at the spot for the final contract, only to find out I forgot to add one of the experiments to this rover. Took about 7 hours of driving to do, with a top speed of 33 m/s on the flats, and running between 5 and 10 m/s on the hills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jim Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 It's alive..... IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Dwarf Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 7 hours ago, Speeding Mullet said: Now that's a nice looking shuttle. Do you have a thread on this one? Alternatively can you give any more information. I'm interested in alternatives to my Buran and other's shuttles also! I'm not quite finished with it yet, but when I am, I do plan on making a designated thread, yeah. Be patient! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratzenblitz75 Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Happy new years, everyone! Today, I finally finished my Kerbin Circumnavigation: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proteus Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 got spaceplane to eve,not sure for now if i need a rescue mission for it got this "lifter" to the orbit going to kerbin orbit docking with the liftergoing slowly to kerbin high orbit in order to use the warp drivereally horrendous slow burn in eve orbit,the vessel wasnt steady and i could not go full throttle with it because i would lose control after 20+ min burn,hello eve!tomorrow i will see how this bird deals with eve atmosphere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geschosskopf Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 I made a Kerbal-powered airplane and flew it to Airbase Island. I had so much fun doing this I made it into a challenge for others to do it better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandaman Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 I'm mainly just biding my time waiting for 1.1 by trying stuff and experimenting. Tried (crashed) a small twin vector (seriously overpowered) VTOL just for fun and several pre-1.0.5 planes that I haven't used in ages. I'll need to redesign everything properly once the next release drops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randazzo Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Tacked on some UKS stuff to my old Minmus Research Station Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Optimist Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Today, I sent multiple spacecraft to Eve. Problem is, it wasn't supposed to be multiple spacecraft. What happened was that the Eve probe was designed to travel on a mothership. So, I docked it without much difficulty, (Just kidding, I had to launch 6 times) and used my own excellent piloting skills to make a decent transfer to Eve. 200 days into the transit, I came out of time warp to do a orbital insertion burn retrograde. I got into a reasonably circular orbit, and prepared to deploy the probe. Then, as I was admiring my handiwork, I noticed that the orbit's perialpsis was 66,500 meters. I leave the rest to your imagination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawks Of Hazard Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) Today I TRIED to send a rover carrying another rover to the Mun, However, THIS is what ended up happening. Edited January 2, 2016 by Hawks Of Hazard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicFireCaster Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Got my miner to duna finally, also lowered the orbit of an asteroid a lot using electric engines, i took a lot of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Workable Goblin Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 I crashed a lot of airplanes. Landing is hard; the brakes never seem to work very well and the aircraft always start to wobble, then smash themselves into bits... In more positive news, I flew a number of successful space flights. I put two satellites into orbit, both carrying SCANSat Radar altimetry modules. The first one I launched with basically a Kerbal Thor-Burner and ended up in a highly elliptical orbit where the radar module wouldn't work half the time, but the other one was launched on a *Thor-Delta and ended up in a nice circular polar orbit where it is is busily making a map. I also launched two Kerbals into orbit (Jeb followed by Val--I had flipped a coin and Val was the first one to space, so I decided Jeb ought to be the first one to orbit), but oddly enough never finished the contract I had for launching a Kerbal into orbit. The first time it wanted me to recover the booster's upper stage for some reason, the second time I can't figure out what the contract's problem was; it just refused to recognize that I had returned to Kerbin. Peculiar. I really want to clear this one out because I'm still on the tier-1 mission control center, so I can only take one other contract as long as it's active... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cydonian Monk Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Today? Today I spent entirely too much time building a 100% stock launch tower and retracting gantry arm. This is entirely EJ_SA's fault (and lifted from his design). And entirely awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 34 minutes ago, Cydonian Monk said: Today? Today I spent entirely too much time building a 100% stock launch tower and retracting gantry arm. This is entirely EJ_SA's fault (and lifted from his design). And entirely awesome. But how does it work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cydonian Monk Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 3 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: But how does it work? Voodoo. Uses an "EJ" joint as a pivot for the gantry arm (small tank surrounded by cubic struts), and gets ejected from the craft by a decoupler and a small, mostly empty sepratron. The whole tower assembly is launch-clamped down with the clamps in a higher staging level. Cosmetic only, but looks cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grenartia Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 I built a sea skimmer that goes 63.6m/s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrooperCooper Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 RO / RSS / RP-0 career is coming along nicely. After completion of my Gemini program, the Apollo project is taking shape... Kourou spaceport before dawn. The crew of the first Apollo craft has boarded the new capsule atop a Merlin-Lifter. Their mission: to test the new equipment during a longer flight in low Earth orbit and verify that heatshield and chutes are working as expected during return... As the first sunrays reached the spaceport, the "Go!" for launch was given and the Merlin-Rocket cleared the pad... Leaving a cloud of dust behind... And turning eastwards... At 40 km altitude, the launch boosters came off... Shortly afterwards, the first spaceship with a crew of three Astronauts entered space... 3:20 minutes after take off at 170 km altitude: the first stage of the Merlin was empty. The connecting fairings were removed and seperation initiated. Simultaneously the aerodynamic shielding of the Apollo spacecraft was pulled off and the launch-escape-system was removed and shot ahead into space in a ball of fire... the process was quite a sight. A second later the unleashed cluster of five J-2 series engines of the upper stage kicked in to propell the vessel into orbit... Ten minutes after departure from Kourou, the actual spacecraft was released and the constant acceleration-forces stopped pushing. The crew could finally calm down... They spent nearly two weeks in orbit untill Mission Control called them to return to the surface, which led to much cheering on board... An hour later they were also able to report that heatshield and chutes seem to work all right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 2 hours ago, Cydonian Monk said: Voodoo. Uses an "EJ" joint as a pivot for the gantry arm (small tank surrounded by cubic struts), and gets ejected from the craft by a decoupler and a small, mostly empty sepratron. The whole tower assembly is launch-clamped down with the clamps in a higher staging level. Cosmetic only, but looks cool. Can you gif it? Curious to see how it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trann Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) Took on yet another rescue to pad out my astronaut roster, someone stranded just outside of Minmus Mun, but as I burned to reach him, the capsule's predicted path suddenly changed -- to an impact on Minmus Mun. It looks to be too far outside of Minmus SOI yet I'm looking at this path and I'm not sure what to do... Edited January 2, 2016 by Trann Mun not Minmus explains SOI reach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaytheDragon Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) I created an SSTO spaceplane, the Z. desjardinii (named after my second-favorite fish, due to it's slight resemblance when looked at in a top-down view), played with it 'till it could make orbit with an ISRU unit aboard, and then constructed a classic-shaped rocket to refuel it. Docking was tricky due to forgetting rear-facing vernors, and forgetting vernors at the top part of the refueler. The spaceplane carries a PocketSub Mk II, the same sub model as the one currently on Laythe. Edit: Some of the pictures in the album are outdated, so I need to go take some fresh new ones. Edit 2: Updated the pictures in the album so all of them show the newest version of the Z. desjardinii, with it's new ISRUs and slightly extra fuel. I also toyed with the missile on the PocketSub Mk II currently landed on Laythe (the same exact sub as in my signature picture). It can be launched from shallow depths or the surface, and has decent range (can fly more than 2 km and hit more than 100 m/s). I forgot to extend the antennae on the submarine and on the missile in the pictures below, sadly. Edited January 2, 2016 by LaytheDragon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonPies Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 today i'm still trying to figure out how to keep my rocket from going into an uncontrollable spin, for me anyway, as soon as i fire the liquid fuel engines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 24 minutes ago, Trann said: Took on yet another rescue to pad out my astronaut roster, someone stranded just outside of Minmus, but as I burned to reach him, the capsule's predicted path suddenly changed -- to an impact on Minmus. It looks to be too far outside of Minmus SOI yet I'm looking at this path and I'm not sure what to do... Unless you can really expedite the rendezvous, I think your rescuee is doomed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev7787 Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) "From the flight deck of Atlantis, the crew looked towards their home for two years, the ship that brought them to Mars (Duna) and back." Final teaser. I will be posting the video tomorrow Edited January 2, 2016 by Bev7787 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grenartia Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 I finally figured out a use for those RoveMax XL3s. Inb4 anyone asks: No, this is not a space plane. Or a plane of any sort. This is a submarine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) On 1/1/2016 at 3:49 AM, Red Shirt said: Not much for planes but this is awesome! It's the Super Chicken, powered by a single Juno engine. It's a bit deliberate in roll, but otherwise it flies rather well. and has a very low take-off speed. Edited January 2, 2016 by SSgt Baloo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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