EpicSpaceTroll139 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Coming soon to a harbor near you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceAdmiral Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 I landed my first Rover on Duna. For the landing I used parachutes, with a skycrane for the final descent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) I added fins to my Escort rocket sled. Well, fins (with outboard T-800s) looked too retro, not to mention the unnecessary weight. So I went with the tail cones instead. This means I can land it on the Mun. Refuel it. Re-orbit to tag a twin. Refuel that too. Then push both out to the Munar 2Mm outer orbit where I intend now to assemble interplanetary expeditions. (Will probably have a station/fuel dump at 25km to buffer fuel and one out at 2,000km.) Then use a fully-fueled Escort to do the interplanetary transfer insertion... THUMP!! Using what I learned with the Escort project (particularly the first usage of Rhino engines), I did a make-over on my old Minotaur fuel tanker tech. Result is Titan... (click the first below for a slide show) It looks so far like it can loft at least 75K kallons of LF + a few of OX into LKO. (I'm wondering also if, with elementary wings and chutes, I could lob the second stage back over the KSC and control it well enough simply to land it on the green for recovery... separate project) Edited July 15, 2018 by Hotel26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aagun123 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) SDV operations Edited July 15, 2018 by aagun123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fearless Son Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Cue "Also sprach Zarathustra". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadeOfMaar Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, Hotel26 said: (click the first below for a slide show) Zoomed out, your glowing engines resemble a Thargoid from Elite: Dangerous. Well done, man. And the Thargoid pic I just looked up becomes my new wallpaper after maybe 2 years! I spent the better parts of the last two days making, tuning and merely enjoying some all-new engines and supplementary parts. This Skylon plane is quite fun. Edited July 15, 2018 by JadeOfMaar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norcalplanner Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Took some tourists for a spin and rescued a new recruit in my GEP Primary career. Ended up landing in the mountains, but thankfully the chutes still worked well enough to avoid any major problems. And I started a mission report for this career, which can be found here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinalFan Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Today I finished the tech tree for the first time. The last node to be filled in was Miniaturization, because of a joke someone had made after I posted about how my rockets seemed to be growing ever larger. Plus, I didn't really feel the lack of anything in there—Clampy Jr. was the only thing that really mattered and I was perfectly happy working with the standard model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) The new guys in Marketing have overruled me... fins are back... "Better gas consumption..." Edited July 15, 2018 by Hotel26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mignear Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) After my last build having a very low fuel load which forced me to do a last minute addition of drop tanks, my next build was to be able to take a belly drop tank that uses the Mk1 tanks instead of the Mk0 tanks. Doubles as practice for building with wing pieces Turns out this build didn't need the belly tank anyway, without the tank it has over 3000 units of fuel, with the tank it has about 4000. Way overkill. After the tests, a quick check shows that its the largest I've built out of all the fighters I've built and also the heaviest at easily twice the weight of the others. Edited July 15, 2018 by Mignear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delay Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) Decided to work on my Principia career again! Not really that much happened today, I did a correction burn here, added a maneuver there and launched a small probe to land on the Mun. Since the mod now supports atmospheric flight, here's my standard gravity turn. It would be nice to see other people's turns; see what trajectory is best. The probe had 1800m/s of dV and I decided to use a low energy transfer to the Mun. Which ended up being a good decision, as I was very close to running out of fuel upon landing. This is what the probe looks like and I'll admit; This is probably the most realistic (or at least aesthetically pleasing in a semi-realistic way) looking probe I've ever done in this game. Making last corrections on the path... ... and a little later I got stranded on the Munar surface. Edited July 15, 2018 by Delay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavscout74 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) I finally got around to sending a mission up to clear up two spent stages from my early career. Specifically the upper stage of my Interim Mun Lander design - I couldn't spare an extra part for a probe core or the fuel to deorbit at the time. I didn't feel like launching two missions, so I made a double recovery vehicle, launched it, then realized I could've saved myself some funds & dV by only having one detachable unit & just a claw in the second position: After first capture. I can't believe I didn't just stick a claw on the second position instead of the whole autonomous claw thing. Just gave me 3 things to deorbit instead of 2. Still, it worked as intended: Connect the claw, seperate the claw vehicle, then once clear of the main ship, fire the SRB & watch your Pe drop: My two Duna landers also arrived successfully. Neither one had any maneuvering capability once the transfer stage seperated, but somehow I managed to place them within 10% of the planets radius of each other entirely by accident. It's not even a good thing because they ended up in the same biome. Not a total loss as they had a few different experiments on each, but still lost out on a little science for now. Finally, some last minute orbital repair work - totally forgot to put any kind of radiator on my Jool Voyager NERV transfer stage, so I sent Kelrik up with a few small thermal control systems to attach. Edited July 15, 2018 by Cavscout74 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinalFan Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Today I did my first inclined launch (Minmus). I didn't realize at first that one needs to wait for KSC to get close to an inclination crossover point, although it was obviously necessary once I considered the question. It was annoying to have to keep correcting to stop the inclination from drifting away again, but it was really nice to put myself in a pre-inclined LKO orbit for transfer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 About to fly 2 rovers to the Dessert airfield. Wish me luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Part 2 : Spoiler TBC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinalFan Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 39 minutes ago, Triop said: About to fly 2 rovers to the Dessert airfield. 8 minutes ago, Triop said: Part 2 : Hey, that's not Minmus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack gamer Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 1 minute ago, FinalFan said: Hey, that's not Minmus! He never said he was gonna go to Minmus... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Deployed rovers on Minmus Dessert airfield. Solar panels broke as soon (tm) as I EVA-ed Back tot the drawing board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinalFan Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 10 minutes ago, jack gamer said: He never said he was gonna go to Minmus... Dessert ... ice cream ... Minmus ... get it? haw haw very punny. Desert is what he meant to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) 12 minutes ago, FinalFan said: Dessert ... ice cream ... Minmus ... get it? haw haw very punny. Desert is what he meant to say. Maybe you guys should better check this. https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Dessert_Airfield Spoiler Edited July 15, 2018 by Triop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARS Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Launching several modules for new space station Core module: Rendezvous with relay module: Sending the crew module: Dock with core module: Launching the power module (I need to launch this twice): Rendezvous with station: Docking... Aaaand... it's done The built-in engine allows it to be relocated to Mun or Minmus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) My new rover solar panel solution. I don't like that it's clipped in, but for now I'll take it. Edited July 15, 2018 by Triop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinalFan Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 25 minutes ago, Triop said: Maybe you guys should better check this. https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Dessert_Airfield Reveal hidden contents I stand corrected! Another thing I did in KSP today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 3 minutes ago, FinalFan said: I stand corrected! Another thing I did in KSP today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack gamer Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 I got bored so I looked up some mods and I found polandball.................POLAND CAN INTO KSP!Poland cannot into space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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