What did you do in KSP1 today?

[Guest]

Making flagship patches for round 3, it's not too late to do a mission!!!!

Round 2 for reference, Round 3 respectively:

 

 

Edited August 15, 2020 by Guest

[aspacecephalopod]

Explored the Valyr system (Whirligig world) some more, including Didd, which is interesting in that not only is it a moon of a moon, but it has a class E asteroid moon of it's own! Also, green monolith:

[N_Danger]

I had a contract to fulfill at Ike and I experimented with a small launch vehicle. Mainly because this was a small payout contract.

SRB separation.

Main engine cut off and second stage ignition

The last part of the Duna ejection burn

I get a lucky encounter with Ike on the course correction burn,

And orbit achieved. Now to just wait out the time required to complete the contract.

 

 

 

Edited August 15, 2020 by N_Danger
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[Lisias]

I made a Work Around for a pesky problem on KSP since 1.8 : I think I kinda stopped the left or right drifting of the craft after she is launched!

That's the history: while (ab)using TweakScale, I ended up realizing why crafts starts to drift to the left or to right on launching! To tell the true, the crafts drifts all the time, but on the launching we have the airstrip to have a reference and so we perceive the problem more easily.

In fact, we have two different problems: a drifting on the wheels, and a drifting on the craft herself. Two different problems happening at the same time.

I managed to work around (this is not a fix!) the craft drifting on the latest KSP Recall, and I would appreciate the help of brave Kerbonauts willing to help me testing this before publishing it widely on Spacedock and CKAN. The latest Release is available only on Github for while.

In time, the drifting induced by the wheels are not being handled yet - the workaround above helps a bit, but not enough to overcome the wheel's problem. But I expect that crafts without wheels will stop changing headings by their own from now on.

Edited August 16, 2020 by Lisias
Of cuorse, tyops!

[Neil Kermstrong]

Today I left the kerbin's gravity influence for the first time, and after 7 years orbiting the Sun I managed to bring Jebediah back in safety to home.

I didn't get a screenshot because I forgot but I'll make sure to take one when I flyby through eve.

[Angelo Kerman]

I finished texturing the Mk-33 Strongback and modeled the launchpad. Then I tested driving the Mk-33 up the ramp; you'll need a running start, but it works. And for those that don't use Kerbal Konstructs, you'll be able to add wheels (i'd attach them to decouplers or robotics) and drive the pad to the desired site:

Once I get the pad model finalized I can start texturing it...

[Guest]

Now they are done!

That's all the mission patches so far!

[RoninFrog]

I did the Apollo mission in miniature!  Tiny moon, tiny lander, and even tiny flag!

Zoomed out a bit:

Here's Jeb next to the lander for scale:

[Grogs]

Given my success with the ground-based seismic sensor on Minmus, I decided to send a couple of impactors over to the Mun. They're basically just probe cores with a big fuel tank and engine. They should be able to impact the surface of the Mu at 1500 m/s at least.

 

I also launched a couple of long-range relays. I do find attaching these somewhat irritating. I had to step up to a 3.75-m fairing because the interstage nodes of the smaller fairings aren't high enough to connect the second probe without clipping. And even then, the truss structure was too narrow and clipped into the RA-100 antenna. So I ended up with the front probe looking like it's magically floating in front of the other.

 

I launched these two on a dive orbit with a period of 284 days, or 2/3 of a Kerbin year. That should return the first satellite to the same spot in 2/3 of a year - injecting it into Kerbin orbit 120 degrees in front of the planet - and the second release at 4/3 of a year - 120 degrees behind. This will make a nice triangular constellation with Kerbin as one of the points.

 

I got one of those "gift" contracts to do something I'm already doing. Mine 550 units of ore from Minmus? OK, switch focus to Jeb and Bill's ship and boom! Contract complete! Jeb started dreaming about how many drinks he could buy with 423,000 funds, but then Bill reminded him that they don't actually get paid.

 

The crew shuttle arrived at Minimus Station bringing tourists, newbie kerbonauts, replacements, etc.

 

Docking the crew shuttle completed the "Upgrade Minimus Station" contract. That will more than pay for the new surface ore converter and the station expansion.

 

Now I have a really hard task. I have to sort out the 25 or so kerbals at Minimus Station. I need to get everyone that needs to land on Minimus down, then I have to sort out who stays and who goes. The newbies and one tourist need to leave Kerbin's SOI on the way out. I also need to get the Duna crew back to Kerbin because that launch window is approaching. And I need to backfill all the slots the Duna crew was filling with replacements.

[Neil Kermstrong]

I've sent my first MK2 lander successfully to mun's surface to mine ore BUT then I realized I forgot the ore holding tank

They are still landed and now I plan on refueling in my WIP mun station to bring them back so I'll have to do the same mission again because of this error

edit: I'll just load my launch save because I have low money

Edited August 16, 2020 by Neil Kermstrong

[Guest]

I am working on a project but I found this today, and I think it's noteworthy:

If you haven't yet, you must watch this video by @Stratzenblitz75 (edit technically all the other people who helped too)! It's well done and mindblowing!!!

 

Edited August 16, 2020 by Guest

[Neil Kermstrong]

I`ve launched a Big-S rocket to the mun,

Landed and after several months (or year i dont know) I mined 600 ore,

 

docked for the first time on my WIP mun station...

And now we are on our way to Kerbin

[KeaKaka]

Well, first of all I flew my small SSTO to orbit:

And then I "upgraded" the Stearwing A300...

The landing wasn't so smooth:

Edited August 17, 2020 by KeaKaka
Fixed broken images

[Grogs]

I landed my crew shuttle on Minmus to plant a flag and get experience for all the kerbals onboard. The BG pistons I was using for legs turned out to be a near-disaster in the low gravity. They didn't want to stop hopping around no matter what I did with the damper settings. I finally ended up just retracting them and resting the ship on its engine bell.

The crew shuttle also replaced Jeb and Bill (from the ore harvester in back) and Bob (from the science lab) with fresh crew. Jeb, Bob, and Bill will rotate back to Kerbin where they'll be part of the alpha crew for the Duna mission coming up in a couple of months.

 

The new ore processing rover landed at Minmus. Given the easy landing conditions, I landed with it still attached to the fuel tanker designed to ferry the newly generated fuel up from the surface. The rover then separated, landed on its rear-mounted engine, and pivoted down on the wheels.

 

The rover was immediately put into action. The first task was to refuel the small tank in the science lab. The residual fuel left in the tank after landing the science lab has been providing power via fuel cells for almost 90 days. This tank had just run dry, letting the science lab go dark at night. With a fresh supply of fuel it continue research both day and night. With 6 drills and 2 convertors, the rover made quick work of the task.

 

After refueling the science lab, the rover refueled the crew shuttle. The crew shuttle transferred back to Minimus Station where it picked up a final few kerbals, then departed towards Kerbin's SOI. They'll make a quick U-turn once attaining orbit around Kerbol and return to Kerbin.

 

Over at the Mun, my two impactors arrived and set about crashing next to the seismic sensor on the surface.

 

The impactors were only moderately successful. The first was deployed from a 25-km orbit. From this altitude, it wasn't able to fully expend its fuel and it impacted at roughly 1400 m/s. Total science gained was only 6.5.

 

The second impactor was deployed from a 100-km orbit and impacted at approximately 2700 m/s. It generated about 64 science upon impact. Between the two, the impactors produced slightly over 1/3 of the science available in the seismic sensor. This is much more tolerable than the << 1% generated by previous impacts on the Mun, but disappointing compared to results at Minmus where two impactors easily generated 100% science in the sensor.

 

Back on Kerbin, I performed the first of four planned launches for the Duna expedition. Launch 1 consists of 6 satellite relays (each with an RA-100) which will be deployed around Duna and Ike. The transfer stage of the satellite carrier was refueled at Kerbin Station. The relays will depart Kerbin on day 171, a full 60 days before the optimal launch window. This will put them at Duna 24 days ahead of the next arrival (ISRU equipment). This should provide ample time to set up the relay networks before any other craft arrive.

[Misguided Kerbal]

Today I assembled my new Gateway-esque station, Mungate Station:

 

 

Spoiler

Shameless Self Plug:

 

 

Edited August 17, 2020 by Misguided_Kerbal

[Guest]

Have quite a few things on the dinnerplate. I don't know what to do first and I also have IRL stuff starting next week until summertime again:

Oh also do something for Tylo/Vall in the Upsilon Initiative. 

I also have the full article about my plans here

https://kerbalanders.wordpress.com/2020/08/17/plans-for-fall-and-winter-2020-content-article/

[Grogs]

I didn't do a whole lot, mostly mined some more fuel on Minmus. I topped off the tanks in the station and it's brimming with fuel now.

 

I ran into the weird overheating issue again. The radiators are showing 100% efficiency when they're normally at about 16%, and the rover wheels are overheating for some reason. It slowly faded over time and things went back to normal.

 

When the ore miner went back to Minimus Station, the same thing was going on there. It doesn't seem to hurt anything, but it's just weird and intermittent.

 

One last thing I noticed was a new entry from the World Firsts Society. Apparently I started an outpost on Minmus. I'm not quite sure what triggered that. Was it having a certain number of kerbals on the ground at once? Or maybe because I had a crewed rover?

[Leopard]

got the Jool lightning orbit, on the third try, probe twice the mass with nuclear engines over the smaller Xeon ones, less DV overall but better launch and intercept.

 

next contract - enter the atmosphere of Jool, had been meaning to try aerocapture anyway, small probe, it worked

 

experimenting is fun

[Misguided Kerbal]

Today I launched the parts of Munbase Alpha!

 

[Lewie]

Ooh boy...,today was something...

So while booting up ksp, I thought it would be fun to capture and asteroid and use it as a refueling port for my rockets and sstos. So I found a class c, and blasted off. The rocket I sent to capture it was an absolute behemoth....weighing in at 152 tons fully fueled and with 11,956 m/s it was a beast that could easily have made it to any planet or moon.

So I burned to the astroid as usual, and everything was dandy. I snatched it up with a claw, with now only 7,564 m/s. More then enough to get home. 

Now the trouble started.

Due to my proximity and location relative to kerbin I had to wait 7 years for a transfer window. When I got to it, I made a maneuver node and got an encounter, easy peasy. . For some reason, I could only get a backwards encounter , so I would be encountering kerbin and have to burn against it’s orbit....and wasting deltaV and ending up in a retrograde orbit. Thankfully, my next encounter would get me a proper encounter. So after getting that kerbin gravity assist, I lost that second encounter. I decided to get a couple mun gravity assists, to nudge my way into an orbit. The first one got my into a stable orbit, but for some reason I left kerbin’s soi even though my ap and pe were well inside the limits!

I had a maneuver node set up to get into a kerbin encounter/get ready for an orbit....and the ‘start burn’ indicator said to start the burn in.....101 years and 236 days....YIKES!

so after a few years and 2 hours of faffing with nodes, I managed to get into a kerbin orbit. By the time I splashed down....it was MET 11y 418d! Almost for 12 years,  Jeb Bill and Bob were drifting through space. 

Speaking of them...if it were any other kerbals that were on this mission I would’ve said screw it and left ‘em out there. (I’d rescue them eventually, but they could wait) but because it was the three vets....I had to Apollo 13 the heck out of this mission to get them home.

This is easily the most intense, difficult, and masochistic mission I have ever done.       

any-who, sorry for the super long story, hope it was somewhat interesting!

Edited August 18, 2020 by Lewie

[N_Danger]

I have 3 contracts of the same type for Val, Tylo and Bop. So Jooldiver 2 was born. 

I went for Bop first, I matched most of the inclination needed on the course correction burn.  

Jool is looking good.

And after the time requirement is met at Bop, we go to Tylo next.

 

[Pipcard]

Y102, D176 - Dosei Maru enters Tekto orbit (Outer Planets Mod)

Y102, D185 - Ryokuun Base on Tekto

[Okhin]

So, A lot happened recently.
First, I landed a probe on Eve, while leaving some infrastructure behind.

Spoiler

This is the Eve mission on the launching pad.

Ascending stages are gone, now let's head for the Gateway Plexe and wait for the Eve window to open.

It's almost not wobbly here.

Burning toward Eve now. Yes, the atmospheric shell is now in the back.

Oh noes, Eve lost its color . Let's reload it.

Much better. The orbit is very tilted though, and there's not enough dV left to correct that. So I'll let the lab there for now, and I'll correct it with the next craft.

Time to touch down. The puffs are here to help with touching down into the ocean (which is required for the contract to succeed).

Much plasma. Very flames.

And going down on chute, after getting rid of the reentry shell.

 

And splashed down. I can now transmit science to the lab up there, and back to Kerbin.

Next were contract about expanding orbital infrastructure. The first one was to increase the capacity of the Stasis station, in geostationary orbit around Kerbin.
 

Spoiler

 

We need to add a lab and a cupola to the existing station. So here we are on the launchpad with an extension.

Staging the SRBs in flames.

The science lab and cupolas module is now loose and heading to rendezvous with stasis.

 

And docked. This is an old station, so I have all size of docking ports here, each module being an adaptor to the next docking port size .

Then a new station needed to be built around Minmus. My contractors love their space stations it seems, I have to build a lot of them.
 

Spoiler

 

I totally forgot to do screenshot of the first part going into orbit. So, let's get it started at stage 2.

This is a totally balanced fairing. With a lot of rigid attachment and grand parent autostruts.

It's also the first launch of the Heavy Payload Delivery System, which can bring the 70t of this second stage in orbit for assembly (also, first use of a full 3.5m stack on my side).

Burning the fairing on exit. Those fairings are tougher than marshmallows.

The second stage coasting to orbit. A lot of Liquid Fuel, some Ore tanks (there's a big converter on the first stage), 6 Nervs and docking ports to add drop tanks. The intent is to be a logistic payload, to help with distributing fuel in kerbin SOI (especially docking ore tanks, converting them in Liquid fuel and send them to the gateway plexe).

Going into rendezvous with the first stage (which is an almost circular ring).

And the two stage are now assembled. I needed three pilot on the craft to complete the contract and I currently have only one. So, I sent a mini module (mostly two landing cans and a senior docking port) to carry the needed pilots and brings every one back.

Pushing the Nerv's toward Minmus. The wolfhound is shut down, I'll need it to bring everyone back on Kerbin.

 

And we made orbit! The craft is quite rigid (I guess, using grid struts tied together with a decent amount of struts helps a lot, the LF tanks aren't structural).

And, after contract completion, we're now going back home.

Not reported is the death of my solar orbital base. I wanted to insert a module in it, but when I splited the station in two I found out that command module and antennas were on two different stack, now separated from each other, rendering the antennas useless, making the command pod nonoperational. And the third stage that I wanted to insert relied on a functioning CommNet to do its job. Which did not exists anymore. The lesson here is, each station module must have a probe core, antennas and batteries. Can be the small antennas, but they need to exist for when I reconfigure the station.

 

[Neil Kermstrong]

Not today, but yesterday I rescued a Kerbal that was stranded in the mun's orbit (With a 45k rocket) for 130k-200k (dont remember how much)

 

Now the interesting thing: Since I had an old contract and I was yet to complete it, I've done my first EvE fly by with Jeb and returned to Kerbin safely

It's a bit dark but you can see the planet above the 2.50>1.25 adapter.

That was by far my most creative rocket and the most functional one, and it only had 3 stages (most rockets i design have 4 stages)

Now I am not sure if I should try landing on it or if I should do Duna first. What do you guys think?

[JorgeCS]

21 minutes ago, Neil Kermstrong said:

Now the interesting thing: Since I had an old contract and I was yet to complete it, I've done my first EvE fly by with Jeb and returned to Kerbin safely

Now I am not sure if I should try landing on it or if I should do Duna first. What do you guys think?

Landing on Eve with no heatshield and no plan? Errrrr... if you want to try, I for one want to see the explosions