jimmymcgoochie Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Laythe Plane 2 landed on Laythe, ahead of Laythe Plane 1 , after some excellently judged aerobraking (read: coming in retrograde at 12kps, frantically reloading and changing periapsis until the heat shields didn't rip off and take the wings/engines/tail/most other stuff with them then hacking gravity to 10x to stay inside Laythe's SOI, saving, un-hacking gravity, reloading and suddenly I had a nice orbit with a 55km periapsis and re-entered smoothly ), came down gently to the ocean and- the probe core smashed on splashdown. Cue another reload and a frantic search for some land to land on before finally making it to the surface and staying in one piece. Laythe Plane 1 came in 22 days later and was a piece of cake in comparison- prograde orbit around Jool, used up the transfer stage slowing down before aerobrake 1 captured into orbit, aerobrake 2 captured into the atmosphere, landed. Only the game glitched and the sea was invisible so I had to try and find an island by looking for slightly different coloured terrain lumps and the map view, with the signal dropping out regularly because I have no relays in Jool's system. I'll come back to those two and the other plane I put on Tylo (because JNSQ Tylo has an atmosphere!) in a while when the relays are in place. Also got a cluster of 4 landers into orbit of Bop and despite a chronic lack of signal issue got one to the surface intact. Not sure if JNSQ still has that famous Bop easter egg/anomaly but there's something in the files that suggests it does, I'll have to scout for it. And in all that excitement, I completely missed the important correction burn for my crewed Jool expedition so had to redo the node 40 days later than planned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadOaks Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 (edited) After a long time of being too busy to play KSP, I finally got a chance to resume my Eve mission. KDSS Sunbeam arrived in low orbit around Eve in a two-part burn. Mundon and Thompsey Kerman piled into the lander/ascent vehicle and deorbited. The timing of this shot was completely accidental but I love it! EDL went pretty well. I got lucky in coming down in a coastal area... lots of biomes nearby and it didn't land in the water. The weird looking top part of the lander is meant to provide aerodynamic stability until the parachutes can deploy. It jettisons after it's no longer needed. The heat shield decouples once the main chutes reached full deployment, and with the main engines freed I was able to make a soft landing. It's a bit sideways, but oh well. Mundon and Thompsey are now the first Kerbals to land on Eve! I also sent an Airborne Surface Exploration Vehicle (ASEV) to give my kerbals some mobility. The ASEV is a VTOL-capable electric aircraft that can be stowed inside a 3.75m fairing. The transfer stage braked into the atmosphere and a parachute pulled the ASEV clear, allowing its wings to unfold. The ASEV flew about 50 km over to the lander and switched to VTOL/hover mode before setting down. Landing operations complete! Time to start exploring. Mission album: Spoiler Edited June 21, 2020 by BadOaks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeCS Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 24 minutes ago, BadOaks said: After a long time of being too busy to play KSP, I finally got a chance to resume my Eve mission. KDSS Sunbeam arrived in low orbit around Eve in a two-part burn. I really like the design of the ASEV. I've been working on a descent/first stage Eve ascent electric vehicle which can reach 17500m before separating and returning to ground for the next usage... The delivered chemical ascent vehicle (single kerbaled) has at that point a total of 4400dv (4900dv vacuum and approx 3170dv at sea level). But the electric ascent vehicle still has some design flaws that make it very uncomfortable to fly. Anyway it is fun . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraken that doesn't exist Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 i just launched sputnik 1 using soviet rockets and soviet probes mods but i forgot to set bandicam up again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 I sent a big asteroid relocator to a class E asteroid, and realized when I docked that the engines point right into the asteroid and thus can't produce thrust. The only outward-facing engines are four Vernier RCS engines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadOaks Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 9 minutes ago, JorgeCS said: I really like the design of the ASEV. I've been working on a descent/first stage Eve ascent electric vehicle which can reach 17500m before separating and returning to ground for the next usage... The delivered chemical ascent vehicle (single kerbaled) has at that point a total of 4400dv (4900dv vacuum and approx 3170dv at sea level). But the electric ascent vehicle still has some design flaws that make it very uncomfortable to fly. Anyway it is fun . Thanks! Something like that would be awesome. Early on I tried putting some unfolding propeller arms on the ascent vehicle's first stage. Like you, I found that it didn't fly very well, and occasionally developed resonances that violently wobbled it to death . If you get it working make sure to @ me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeCS Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 (edited) 17 minutes ago, cubinator said: I sent a big asteroid relocator to a class E asteroid, and realized when I docked that the engines point right into the asteroid and thus can't produce thrust. The only outward-facing engines are four Vernier RCS engines. Very Kerbal design! Congrats!! Edit: for my asteroid relocators I always add a drill and a convert. In this case you could make monoprop and still have thrust Edited June 20, 2020 by JorgeCS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 13 minutes ago, JorgeCS said: Very Kerbal design! Congrats!! Edit: for my asteroid relocators I always add a drill and a convert. In this case you could make monoprop and still have thrust Yes, it is a full miner as well, adapted from one I attached to my interplanetary mothership. It just has a very low TWR in this unfortunate configuration... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RizzoTheRat Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 I do love a good Kommunications Satellite network. Number 4 just about to boost from it's resonant orbit in to it's final orbit. Unfortunately due to limited parts so far, number 4 was a little bit bigger than idea... Being somewhat over powered it only managed to get within about 2 seconds of the targeted 75 minutes orbit, while the other three were all within 0.1 seconds. I'll probably de-orbit it and put a better network up once I've got some better equipment, but this will handle comms to the mun and Minmus for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Crash Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Hauled 4 contracts of Kourageous Tourists to the Mun for selfies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoninFrog Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 I delivered a load of 20 kerbals to my new ISRU Mun base in the canyon with an LF-only single stage shuttle! Thanks to @Hotel26 for helping refine the shuttle design! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspacecephalopod Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 7 hours ago, BadOaks said: After a long time of being too busy to play KSP, I finally got a chance to resume my Eve mission. KDSS Sunbeam arrived in low orbit around Eve in a two-part burn. Both that lander and the VTOL are brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrionix Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 (edited) I figured out how to make a config for RSS DateTimeFormatter: Edited June 21, 2020 by Astrion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipcard Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 (edited) Y65, D286 - The WiM-17 miner and probe carrier transfers to Neidon's moon Nissee (planned trajectory) Y66, D79 - Amethyst-f lands on Nissee (Y66, D80 - A short hop from the landing site) Edited June 21, 2020 by Pipcard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okhin Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Took a bit of time to add another module to this space station. Some scanners, a docking port and 8 relay sats to be deployed somewhere at sometime. I probably went overkill for the launcher. But everything fits in the 3.75m fairing, and then I got for 5m tanks, and a cluster of engines. Off with the fairing, and off to LKO. Next stop is for the station. I'm still having 500m.s dV at this time in the tanks. During simulation I couldn't manage to stop in time after uncoupling the tank at a speed of 2m.s. So this time I went for a full stop first, at a couple hundred meter, jettisoned the tank then moved slowly, and I could stop before impacting everything. Final approach at 0.2 m.s to dock gently to the big purple station. Oh yes I forgot to add that there's also a lab in this module And here it is. Next thing will be a SSTO for crew transfer (I still have all my crew in this station because I forgot to check the crew manifest and every available kerbals jumped in). I'll also need to decide where to send this. And maybe ditch the argon boosters for something with more oomf. I was thinking some non-atmo landers which could be used as engines too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N_Danger Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Sent the first Kerbals to the Mun in this play through. Val, Milfrod and Gergar. pose for a picture. And they have a nice view of Kerbin while going into orbit. Some more shots of the mission. Spoiler Next time let's bring a rover to look for Mun Stone. Lift off. Circularizing is for sissy's And I will be launching my first interplanetary mission to Duna later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspacecephalopod Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 (edited) Put a small outpost on Gilly. Proving once again that anything is a Gilly lander if you try hard enough, including a big old (Jool mission leftover) NERVA tug with a base module added to it: Edited June 21, 2020 by aspacecephalopod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RizzoTheRat Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 (edited) Been working on a kOS script for altitude changes, boosting the Ap or Pe to a given value. It's taken a bit of fiddling and a lot of debugging but but I'm very happy with the result. From an 80x80 ish orbit I told it to raise the Apoapsis to 110km, and then raise the current Periapsis to 120km. The end result: I think I can live with that. then tried raising the Ap to 5000km and the current Pe to 6000km I make that a 0.0016% error on the semi major axis : Edited June 21, 2020 by RizzoTheRat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plane Crazy Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 (edited) I took a crew of three on a mission to Gilly, with a turnout of 5000+ science. Spoiler Ascent from Kerbin: Deploying a contract satellite around Eve: Doing some surface science: Departing for Kerbin. I was too impatient to wait for a proper transfer window, but the ship had plenty of spare dV. Back in LKO, docked with a support craft to bring the crew back to the surface and refuel the ship for the next mission: Edited June 22, 2020 by Plane Crazy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewie Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 (edited) Today I sent my Jool first craft, the Jool 1, to the Jool system. I am currently trying to figure some solutions out, as my game bugs out and is being very problematic. I am thinking I am going to have to splash my crew down on laythe, as I am running out of precious fuel, and I do not have any spare ore. I think it’s tine for @Matt Lowne to bring back the Blunderbirds....this is my first craft to Jool, and I only had a slim idea of what to do. It was intended to be a return mission, as I do have a convert-o-tron, but I doubt it’ll be any use. I don’t have enough fuel to land anywhere(I can’t get a tylo gravity assist, my game won’t allow it, and I have little fuel left. Laythe is probably the best chance for survival...But the Blunderbirds might have to come rescue them.... cus I barely know what the heck I’m doing. Please, @Matt Lowne, you’re my only hope. ok, little update- so I have no idea what happened, but there was some bug where my engines were running but providing no thrust. So pretty much draining my fuel. I didn’t notice, as I was reading a book while the burn. As the burn finished, I did switch the nukes off, and hit timewarp. Even with max timewarp, the time that passed was really long, so I did go back to my book. This is when that bug happened. The game was being really buggy, especially when I used phys warp for the burns. Upon reaching Jool, I had roughly 20 m/s left. The delta v readout was bouncing around with random numbers, but with the amount of fuel left, this was what i calculated it to be. I used the remaining fuel to get an encounter with Laythe, and used the de-coupler to push my periapsis to a height that would allow for aero capture. This was my first journey to the Jool system, so I had no idea on what height I should preform an aero capture at. I wanted to leave the pod in orbit. (Would’ve used the kerbal’s eva packs to push the periapsis above 50,000 meters.) So I guessed wrong and splashed down in the seagen sea. Oops. @Matt Lowne, I hope you do see this. Please do consider bringing the Blunderbirds back for this unique mission....cus I play console...and that changes things up. Edited June 22, 2020 by Lewie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 (edited) Inexpressible joy... Edited June 22, 2020 by Hotel26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewcumber Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 (edited) Contrary to my expectation of not playing KSP again for a year I actually made a.... thing today. I'm surprised it worked and I am trying to think of a practical use for it. I was going along the lines of a steam engine drive shaft thing. (edit - a looping (ish) lower MB version) Any ideas of something fun I could do with this idea Edityedit - I can see how this will help me go to space /s Edited June 22, 2020 by Stewcumber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspacecephalopod Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Went full space opera cinematic with a new mothership I'm testing for my late-game Laythe based exploration save... It's also a lander on anything with Vall gravity or less and can run ISRU to refuel. 24KM/s delta v without payload, running on Lithium fuel and two reactors and three large lithium engines (all Near Future). A large crew space is integrated... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewcumber Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 The science engineering has continued... First time I've really looked at the "same vessel interaction". This is one rotor powered up and one without power and set to not lock up when without power. It eventually grew to... Again just the one motor with power (the horizontal one). I might try to make a miniature version and then fit axles to it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEPEG_Unconscious Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 I have a habit of building rovers with space for two kerbals, while sending three on a mission. Not a problem when doing a science excursion, but when the science rover also doubles as a crew taxi, moving all the crew at once gets...difficult... This fellow must have been a firefighter before signing on with the KSC. He held on just fine for the 10 km drive between the Phoenix Lander and the Belisama Habitat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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