Xurkitree Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 (edited) Yesterday, I was working on some contracts, and I found this rescue contract for Kerbin Orbit. Why do you even make an orbit that intersects the Mun's orbit so many times? The pod got 3 Mun encounters, and was in a retrogade orbit too. Heck, even I got 2 Mun encounters, trying to get an encounter. Eventually, Edeny's pod crashed into the Mun. Now What am I supposed to so with that? I also made a SSTO, the Tennessine. Today however, I landed my Grand Tour craft, KSS Hypernova on the Mun! It took the most intense suicide burn of my life and I ran out fuel around the 25m/s mark, which meant I had to tumble a lot. Thank god for Landing gear. And, I so landed precariously, that I not only ran out of fuel, I also ran out of Monoprop trying to stabilize the ship. via Imgflip Meme Generator Also, I had this contract for rescuing a Kerbal stranded in Solar orbit, which was about 2.4 million KM from the sun, so I made this to get her. Is this overengineered? Maybe. But If have stuff left, I'm going for Low Solar Orbit science. Edited June 19, 2018 by Xurkitree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterKerman Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Xurkitree said: ... Also, I had this contract for rescuing a Kerbal stranded in Solar orbit, which was about 2.4 million KM from the sun, so I made this to get her. Is this overengineered? Maybe. But If have stuff left, I'm going for Low Solar Orbit science. I think you might have a few too many nuke engines for how little the craft weighs. They're more of a "use as few as you can get away with" sort of engine as far as I know unless you're unable to match the thrust required to change your velocity in time to successfully pull off the maneuver you plan to attempt. Slap me in my dumb little face if I'm incorrect about this, however. ;3 Edited June 19, 2018 by MisterKerman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerbal01 Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 (edited) sent a manned mission to jool for the first time. https://imgur.com/satMZX5 Edited June 19, 2018 by Kerbal01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delay Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Tried making a small airplane today. And by small I mean size 0. This was the first iteration: And somehow I managed to get Jeb to clip into the runway ground... TWICE! He doesn't seem to have a problem with it, though... Anyways, the craft had some problems, so I had to redesign some parts. This second interation works slightly better, but it can't land, so I have to use parachutes to touch the ground safely. Other than that I fixed my SSTO! slightly... In orbit it had around 309m/s of dV left, so it's pretty much useless. It also becomes rather uncontrollable during reentry because the CoM seems to move behind the CoL as it burns fuel. It pitches up so badly that even with RCS it's barely stable. To my own surprise, not only did I manage to land this... thing, I managed to land it in one piece on the first attempt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kronus_Aerospace Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Today I decided to make a replica of the GP7000 turbofan. It was a lot of work but turned out super well! Did I mention that the turbine spins? Well it does, it essentially functions as a turboshaft since it is powered by a few juno's. Happy now @Kebab Kerman? Here's a download link for those who are interested: https://kerbalx.com/Kronus_Aerospace/GP7000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterKerman Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 2 hours ago, Kerbal01 said: sent a manned mission to jool for the first time. https://imgur.com/satMZX5 So nice. The interplanetary space-wieners are my favorite design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Installed GAP, and then took the Contract for a Glider. "What could possibly go wrong?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Out of fuel, out of speed . . . But I made it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 I got the J-90 engine contract again, I love this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythical Donuts Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 On 6/17/2018 at 2:19 PM, qzgy said: You use an external host like imgur and directly link the image. Imgur is very popular (I personally use it.) and has an option for sharing when you upload images to it. You want to use the direct link (usually ended by a .png r other file format). The software should auto embed the images. I hope that sorta helps? Thanks! Now I need to create an imgur account... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratzenblitz75 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Today, I went to Jool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redneck Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I played KSP Multiplayer and loved it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythical Donuts Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Today I started a new 3.2x save. It’s the first time I have used 3.2x and it’s tons of fun! It adds a new challenge to the game, which was needed after 800 hours of normal sized planets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavscout74 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I went back to my 1.3.1 game and added EVE because I wanted to see KSP with clouds. I wish I had added it a long time ago Jeb's first sub-orbital launch at dusk: Jeb & Kelrik cruising over to the island airfield for an anomaly contract: Kelrik admiring the sunrise from the island control tower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengerki Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Well, didn't get too much time to play. Went for building a simple ssto spaceplane with mk2 parts. After a few attempts where the liftoff took my nerv behind, although I verified I could just about achieve orbit with the rapiers, I verified I could achieve orbit with the design although only had about 80 dv left. Started a redesign of it so that it can be a little more useful. Also started work on a crazy ssto space plane design I came up with at work last night. Still need to work on the rear gear placement along with having enough engines to support its bulk which means I also need to add more fuel and down the spiral it goes, again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athen Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I landed on duna for the first time, and ike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enceos Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 2 hours ago, avengerki said: Well... Wow, you probably have the oldest forum profile with the least number of posts. Unbelievable O.o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobaltShock Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 (edited) Designed a new spacecraft, the "Nova Heavy". The ship is basically a versatile spacecraft which could land crew on both Iota & Ceti, and is quite a bit cheaper than our previous designs 240,000 vs 400,000. Obviously the first test was unmanned, and did a test Iota landing & return Spoiler: The mission succeeded. Edited June 20, 2018 by Steeeeve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargamel Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Sooo... My Eve lander is capable of landing. Got that part worked out. It's the returning thing that I need to work on. And that will require a total redesign of the lander. But... What if the kerbals don't have to return just yet? What If I land them this launch window, and then once I figure out how to space, I go back and get them?? Surprisingly, the crew had mixed emotions on this. Early test of 'The Rumbler', Long Term Eve mobile Base: Holds a bunch of Kerbals, crew will be 3 or 4, depending on how my scientists I want to sacrifice send. ISRU in place to refuel the lander if when it arrives. Later versions have a fuel cell and tanks. MK3 science lab, greenhouse for LS, waste recycler, High visibility drivers seat (left side). Note the number of wheels. 16. Remember that number. First Eve entry test: A bit of tumbling occurred. And burning. There was lots of burning. And quite a bit of associated screaming, but that will get scrubbed from the public record. Remember that number? Now count. 5. 5 wheels made it. It's now not so much a mobile base, but a uncomfortably tilted semi fixed base that has a tendency to slide down hills... very slowly. But, everything else went great! While yes I did burn off 11 wheels and the main fixed solar panels, the missions was a successful failure, in that about 90% of my tests passed! Remember how I said it has a tendency to slowly slide down hills? The summit of that hill is maybe 100m above, and the bottom of this very slight grade is about 5-7 linear km away. A couple hours passed of trying to stop the thing from sliding down the hill at .8 m/s, I could kinda steer, but not really. 5/16 wheels makes that difficult, especially in that arrangement and 4 of them broke. I gave up and went to bed. Got up, saw it was close, went to work, got home, and there it was, at the bottom of the hill. Everything else seems to work, just need to work on the balance issues during entry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeiss Ikon Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 9 hours ago, Mythical Donuts said: Thanks! Now I need to create an imgur account... You don't have to, but it helps for locating and controlling the stuff you've uploaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobaltShock Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Did a manned flight of the Nova Heavy, dubbed Nova X. Spoiler Spoiler: A huge success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiew Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 (edited) Upon discovery that there is not a single pilot left at KSC and none of the vessels currently in flight have re-entry capability, mission control requests that the engineering team build a spaceplane to retrieve the crew of the Beli Rumbler under remote guidance. Which works surprisingly well. Fully loaded, the wing area is pretty miserly and the takeoff speed is over 110m/s, but once in flight it handles well and Squiblet reaches orbit with about 1100m/s left on the aerospikes. Upon undocking, it is realised that the Beli Rumbler has no probe core aboard... oh well, probably won't see that one again then. Re-entry proves that Squiblet is stable and sturdy, but draggier than expected, falling short of the runway and needing several minutes on jets to come to a proper touchdown. At least there's enough wing to support Squiblet's dry mass comfortably. Total science haul from the Belisama expedition: 7800. Quite glad I didn't send that through the lab because it would have completed a whole tier of tech tree I'm not ready to complete yet! Might review my node costs and punch up the back end even higher than it is... Edited June 20, 2018 by eddiew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterKerman Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 27 minutes ago, eddiew said: ...spaceplane... You build neat stuff. What's your strategy for re-entry generally to make landings using a shuttle on the runway? I eventually want to use shuttles Merica' style for literally everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kebab Kerman Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 @Kronus_Aerospace Yep, definitely happy. I wish my KSP would work again so I could try it, but nope. It took FIVE HOURS TO LOAD, and even then, it still froze on the loading screen. I'm still not sure what it is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kronus_Aerospace Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 @Kebab Kerman If you can't fix the issue you could try starting with a clean install, you can copy all your save files so you don't lose anything and redownload all your mods. It would be a time consuming process, but if you haven't been able to figure out the issue yet it might be your best choice. Or you could temporarily get rid of all your mods of you haven't done that yet and see if that fixes it, maybe then reinstall the mods one at a time until you figure out which one is causing the issue. Presuming that it is one of your mods that is the problem of course, that may not be the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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