What did you do in KSP1 today?

[KerBlammo]

Continued construction of the KSS:

Then resumed test flights of my SSTO.  This is the same design as the last test flight, this time testing the re-positioned RCS during docking (much improved!)

After undocking it once again attempted to land at KSC.  If it were not from some ...ahem... "unpleasantness" following re-entry (attributed to errors in the "flight control software") it probably would have landed "at" KSC.  As it was it once again landed a little short of the runway (aprox 17km -- last time was much closer than that).

Edited December 14, 2017 by KerBlammo

[Yakuzi]

I took a new stock SSTO spaceplane I'm working on for a test flight at civil twilight:

[Corona688]

Enabled kerbal G-blackouts, then tested them in the most cheap and punishing way I could contrive:

The recovery pod performed beautifully.  I only had to stage twice to make it do everything I wanted.  It passively pointed itself heatshield-down, and the chutes all deployed one-at-a-time, particularly the "emergency" drogue which can deploy even at risky speeds.

[harrisjosh2711]

Modeled new engines for my dragon V2 and did a little work to the textures. Finished up my first texture pass on my WIP BFR textures.

Edit: Got a little further on the BFR textures.

Edited December 14, 2017 by harrisjosh2711

[Martian Emigrant]

Hey there Kerboldies.

 

Last time I reported that Val (And Bill) were on Moho.

https://imgur.com/a/2RDpz

They tried Hopping to the north pole to peek at the "Mouse Hole". (that's what Val calls it)

But the terrain was getting way too bumpy. So they gave up and departed for Gilly. Simulations proved that going direct to Duna wasn't an option.

 

After meeting Eve and a few orbital changes they got there no problemo.

 

 

After a quick (OK not so quick) fuel-up they left for Duna.

 

 

Followed by Ike. They departed Duna with way too much fuel but made orbit anyway.

 

 

And finally They made it to Dress.

 

 

When I left them last night they were making fuel and were enjoying a large pizza with some Fizzy-Pop.

 

 

So far on this tour:

Mun landed

Minmus landed

Eve orbited

Gilly Landed twice

Moho landed

Duna landed

Ike landed

Dress landed

Next

Joolian system.

 

ME

Edited December 14, 2017 by Martian Emigrant

[Spacefan_Gaming]

Hey everyone. You may remember that I first posted here about a month ago about my TISM career. Well, I found time to play it a bit over the past few weeks, so here's some updates:

The first mission was the launch of Terrather 1, my reusable ore miner, headed for Minmus:

 

This craft is designed to mine 1500 units of ore from Minmus's flats and return it to my Minmus Station, Minty Station. It also has a nuclear reactor! 

Here is Terrather 1 transporting up its first load of ore to Minty Station, and having it refined into...3000 units of Liquid Fuel! I had to rush some radiators out to the station because I originally forgot them, but that's not a big deal, right?

Here we see DULRER (DUna Long Range Exploration Rover) doing its first long distance trek from Endurance Base at Duna's equator to the edge of the poles, and then back. It performed really well on this mission, being able to collect large amounts of science from multiple biomes on its way to the poles, and returning the crew successfully back to base. Of course, Jeb had to plant some flags along the way.

Now we see the launch of a Proton 3 rocket (50 tons to LKO) carrying...

The Rocinante Fuel Tug, my first ever reusable fuel tug, designed to carry Liquid Fuel being refined at Minty Station to the aging Altair Station in orbit around Kerbin (It will be replaced soon, hopefully). This was named after the main craft in the show "The Expanse". I watched the first season just recently, and I was quite interested in it. Also, it turned after getting it to Altair Station that it needed more LFO capacity to feed the aerospike powering it, so that was sent up on an launch that I didn't take photos of.

Finally, to finish off this post, I'm posting pictures of my first probe's arrival at Jool, my first ever visit to the gas giant! This probe, Adventurer 3, has an orbiter and Jool atmospheric probe section all in one package. The second photo has that probe entering Jool atmosphere. I love how SVE makes Jool and its moons look so nice, but it throws my framerate somewhat out the window... Oh well, you've got to make sacrifices some times... My next post for this shouldn't be delayed so much, as I have break right around the corner, but I've got other stuff to do as well. We'll see. However, you might see some RP-0 sooner, as I'm in the mood to play with my career for that...

Spoiler

Some extra content; I found the fabled desert temple:

 

[Tyko]

On 12/13/2017 at 3:44 AM, Space Kadet said:

do you know any planet packs that do not touch the stock ones and are just more further out? i had one a while back, but have forgotten it and cant find it, i think the one i found had 2 more systems....

 

 

[Space Kadet]

i made an alcubierre drive ship !

48 minutes ago, Tyko said:

 

 

thanks ill get testing!

[capi3101]

1 hour ago, Space Kadet said:

i made an alcubierre drive ship ! <snip />

I've had some misadventures with the Alcubierre Drive my own self recently. There's a new version under development at the moment that I'm using in my career save - the throttle isn't as fiddly and you can warp in closer to the various bodies of the system, there's three new parts and they all now use the same set of failsafe altitudes. Angular Momentum mode works again; still haven't grokked it yet. The downside is that they burn through resources a lot faster -  whereas you could get away with operating the drive with a few RTGs before, nowadays you'll need Fuel Cell Arrays (assuming you're staying stock, that is). 

Wrote a tutorial on Alcubierre navigation not too long ago; it might be useful to you.

[L0ck0n]

F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet

[KerBlammo]

Continued space station construction.

 

Edited December 15, 2017 by KerBlammo

[Martian Emigrant]

Bah! Humbug!

 

Just got to Vall on my grand tour.

With all the inner planets and Laythe done.

I should be happy.

Darn it I just realised that My ship isn't taking Tylo's gravity into account.

Can't Land there. I got the DeltaVs not the TWRs.

 

Darn, darn, darn.

 

ME

 

PS Orders have been sent to Val to cancel all further trips and to come home.

The Mark 2 (2 crews) proved insufficient. Jeb will have a go with the mark 3 (3crews).

 

 

Edited December 15, 2017 by Martian Emigrant

[Jett_Quasar]

I just finished uploading my latest video featuring the Quasar Carrier (and yes that's it's actual name)

 - Jett

[Geonovast]

@Jett_Quasar Oh man, I forgot about that thing!  So cool.

[LordFerret]

Drove up to the top. Rover took lots of damage on the way... rollovers... damned seams. No hope of recharging the batteries, I let it roll over the side. So now I'm up here. The view is so beautiful I could die..... wait..... how am I getting down???

 

You're just going to have to sit there and chill, buddy. The other rescue rovers are literally days away... and there's seams..... lots of seams.

[Geonovast]

6 minutes ago, LordFerret said:

Drove up to the top. Rover took lots of damage on the way... rollovers... damned seams. No hope of recharging the batteries, I let it roll over the side. So now I'm up here. The view is so beautiful I could die..... wait..... how am I getting down???

 

You're just going to have to sit there and chill, buddy. The other rescue rovers are literally days away... and there's seams..... lots of seams.

Paradrop a rover nearby?

[Tyko]

15 hours ago, KerBlammo said:

Continued space station construction.

 

This is looking really cool. How are your frame rates?

Edited December 15, 2017 by Tyko

[KerBlammo]

13 minutes ago, Tyko said:

This is looking really cool. How are your frame rates?

So far so good.  The time display is always green.  Not sure how to see what the actual frame rate in game is though.

[Tyko]

5 minutes ago, KerBlammo said:

So far so good.  The time display is always green.  Not sure how to see what the actual frame rate in game is though.

If you're not getting a lot of stuttering I'd say it's fine. Last time I put up a big station the screen stuttered like crazy. I think my problem was that I had too many lights on it

[Julien Kerman]

Today I launched Callisto Lander v2. Only five years left until the contract runs out and I loose 7.5 million, so hopefully this one will work.....

I decided to use a different launch vehicle, this time its a Saturn V MLV:

This is the second launch of this massive 6000 tons monster which can deliver 200 tons into LEO.

Engine & Booster ignition and lift-off!! Each of the boosters provides 16000kN of thrust.

The additional transferstage is 170 tons and features a HG-3 vac engine (1400kN)

The actual Lander weights 30 tons and is going to arrive in two years.

 

[KerBlammo]

34 minutes ago, Tyko said:

If you're not getting a lot of stuttering I'd say it's fine. Last time I put up a big station the screen stuttered like crazy. I think my problem was that I had too many lights on it

No stuttering yet. I'm going to add to the station tonight and/or this weekend.  I have been expecting to start having issues as with previous large stations, but this is the first big one I've done on this computer.

[Fearless Son]

4 hours ago, Geonovast said:

Paradrop a rover nearby?

That never works well for me on mountaintops.  Too imprecise, and steep slopes tend to cause it to roll downward until reaching the foothills or exploding.  Makes me wish the parachute could get snagged on rock outcroppings just to add some friction to its uncontrolled descent.  

A VTOL pickup though?  That is a bit easier to pull off.  

[TheKorbinjer]

DC3 and SOCATA TBM 900, been keeping me busy for the last few days.

Edited December 16, 2017 by TheKorbinger

[Ultimate Steve]

I'm a bit late to the whole "BFR" thing, but today I decided I wanted to try to make one.

BFR 001 - Spectre

The crewed version.

Launch of BFR-002 "Faded." The tanker version. The first stage uses five vectors, with only one used for landing.

RTLS boostback burn.

Both the crewed and refueler upper stages use two aerospikes and two thuds. The aerospikes have an efficiency of 345s, so they are used for vacuum burns. The thuds have gimbal, so they are used for landing on Duna or whatever other planet you wish. For landing on Kerbin, you can get away with just thuds on the refueler, but you have to use all four engines on the spaceship because it is way heavier.

First stage booster has landed! Not quite on the pad, but I promise I'll make up for that later!

Spectre and Faded docked together end to end, like the BFR would. The tank is not filled all the way, but considering it is KSP, 2/5 fuel is enough to get to Duna.

Re-entry of the refueler. Pretty tame.

Landed (in the middle of nowhere).

Leaving Kerbin.

Landing on Duna after aerobraking.

On Duna, showing off the ISRU! Unlike the real planned BFR, this one doesn't have any real cargo capacity. Although, if you made the ISRU part of a Duna base and filled the fuel tanks all the way, you could take a few tons (maybe even a dozen or two if you're a great pilot) to Duna.

Leaving Duna.

Decided to stop at Ike.

Duna on the horizon looks pretty nice!

Going home.

Aerocapture. The two solar panels exploded, but other than that nothing broke.

After 3 or 4 braking passes, I realized I was in the right spot to try landing at KSC.

Taking "Return to Launch Site" literally.

ALMOST!

Ran out of fuel and tipped over.

The margins for landing were pretty slim (although I could have saved a ton of fuel if I didn't try to land at KSC) and with my available quicksaves this was as close as I could get without running out of fuel and exploding. At this landing I had 21m/s of fuel left, which was really only 4m/s because I had a 1.25 TWR. I'm satisfied with that, though, not bad for coming back from Duna!

 

 

Where should I go and what should I do with this system next?

[LordFerret]

5 hours ago, Fearless Son said:

That never works well for me on mountaintops.  Too imprecise, and steep slopes tend to cause it to roll downward until reaching the foothills or exploding.  Makes me wish the parachute could get snagged on rock outcroppings just to add some friction to its uncontrolled descent.  

A VTOL pickup though?  That is a bit easier to pull off.  

While I've not dropped a rover yet, I'm about to. With adequate chutes and the brakes set, I don't foresee it going anywhere. I've dropped plenty of manned capsules in the past; Placement was never a problem, neither was the capsule rolling - anti-roll measures were added. What was a problem was flying out beyond 2km of the drop, where the game would then turn it into debris... so circles until it landed.