What did you do in KSP1 today?

[oyster_catcher]

I've been working on a mod to reliably boostback and land boosters Falcon 9 style. The aim is for very high accuracy, reliability, easy to use. Its nearly there. I've posted a video of it working in base KSP and will shortly upload a Realism Overhaul example.

Please enjoy. I hope to release the mod within a week or two after adding automatic deployment or grid fins and landing gear.

 

[vv3k70r]

I' moving base with spider crane:

And coasting probes home cheap:

[Guest]

Finished a community project. Had great submissions. I was managing this project called Providence. It was an infrastructure project. So I managed these crafts. We never got to do everything but hey this was the end result. This isn't everything, I have a video coming out next week for it. This weeks video is mun arches explained

[Ikkjot]

I "accidentally" made jeb stuck.... oops!

 

Edited December 15, 2020 by Ikkjot

[Corona688]

Always nice when Minmus has a nice ore spot on the flats:

 

[TheSaint]

Been working on the Block II variant of my workhorse spaceplane. Pretty much have it dialed in now.

[vv3k70r]

And this little white pixel above blue arrow of aerdynamic force is the Minmus. (flying angle to load power)

Minmus for sure:

 

[MR L A]

I'm a little low on inspiration today... so, how about I ask "what *should* I do in KSP today?"

Bare in mind I have a bit of a potato PC and I'm not Stratzenblitz75  

[Puggonaut]

 

[eberkain]

I did not make it to orbit today.  

[DerkyJerkyWreaksHavoc]

On 12/8/2020 at 5:42 PM, Urus28 said:

Valentina was jealous of Jeb last plane.... So I had to build her a better plane.

I think Val and Jeb r in love with each other  I highly doubt she's jealous

2 hours ago, MR L A said:

I'm a little low on inspiration today... so, how about I ask "what *should* I do in KSP today?"

Bare in mind I have a bit of a potato PC and I'm not Stratzenblitz75  

or are you?

[vv3k70r]

Construction site. As far the Mighty Kraken eat one smallest pv during conections of pipes. Drilling, refuealing - industrializing da Mun.

More pipes waiting around, more old, unesfull vessels with tanks to deorbit (drilling work only in daylight - solar pannels are afraid of the dark).

[evileye.x]

Started new career with Kiwi tech tree and built my first (ever!) BG propeller plane with parts from start node only.

Edited December 14, 2020 by evileye.x

[18Watt]

I've been playing KSP since (I think) roughly early 2012.  I remember when v0.18 came out, and was pretty excited about it!

Today, I installed and used a Mod for the first time ever.  Actually, two of them!  I've always enjoyed playing completely stock.  I also always realized that I was missing out on a lot by not installing mods, but was fine with that.

One difficulty I've always had (even back with v0.18..) is having several vessels in flight, and warping past when I needed to perform a maneuver.  I tend to have a lot of ships going different places at once.  So, my first mods are two by TriggerAu, Kerbal Alarm Clock and Transfer Window Planner.

I'll probably put a bunch of ships up and on their way to somewhere tonight, to try them out.  A belated thank you to TriggerAu (these mods have been available for a long time.,), I'm really excited about trying them out.

[evileye.x]

On 12/11/2020 at 10:03 AM, evileye.x said:

my first (ever!) BG propeller plane

I was not perfectly honest  , because from name you can clearly see it is at least 5th iteration (or 7th?...)

This was  my first.

 

Ended up like this:

Valentina had even less luck with this untamed beast of a plane:

 

Edited December 14, 2020 by evileye.x

[Corona688]

All your images are dead.  It works for you only because your computer already loaded them somewhere else.  Use imgur.

Edited December 11, 2020 by Corona688

[eberkain]

First time I ever did a rideshare with some cubesats. 

[N_Danger]

I quickly sent the newly recovered Jool 1 Probe to Vall.

After scanning down Vall I headed to Laythe ditching the Nuc along the way.

And with the last of the D/V I get into a polar orbit around Laythe.

 

[vv3k70r]

I performed some manouvers that are not posible with manouvers node, because normal and antinormal keep changing when executed, and I need thright vector to get home on these fuel (whicg is not dsiplayed, because of fancy staging):

Deorbit more old stuff (there were discusion what to do with them - use them as fuel storage for mine):

Pipes checked - they do not leak in this temperature:

Send more pipes - pipes are good (package of four):

Running some missiones - it become crowdy:

Waiting for two more passangers and a bus - one home, one to Minmus:

Engineers failed to fix wheels:

What could do scientist whe rover get up from slope 200m above the surface?

Perform EVA!

 

 

[stephm]

I started Learning KOS programming, and how PIDLoop work, and use especially the function integrate in kos, with success.

I'm not good enough to program this kind of function Mathematical, and still a lot to understand about steering things...

I never practice VTOLs in ksp, first time with KOS.

first landing on VAB in this save game (career mod, with kos now and lot of mod), altitude control is perfect with kos , but maintaining stability manually was very hard...

it's two stage vessel, sky crane can detach, to do science has precise places.

collected science!!.

on the left container for deployed science, on the idden side are grouping all the science modules at this stage of my career.

steph.

[Xt007]

Mars ISRU station awaiting the launch and arrival of the mobile water drill.  After that, Kerbals to Mars!

[Clamp-o-Tron]

1 hour ago, Xt007 said:

Mars ISRU station awaiting the launch and arrival of the mobile water drill.  After that, Kerbals to Mars!

I’d love to see what that module is. Could you post a light-side image?

[Xt007]

3 hours ago, Clamp-o-Tron said:

I’d love to see what that module is. Could you post a light-side image?

Just a simple C02 absorber water electrolysis and enhanced Sabatier process.  

[jimmymcgoochie]

Deployed the slowest time warp setting I’ve ever used (1/25 speed) to hit the Moon with a rocket with a TWR of 15 at that point in the transfer burn. With no engine restarts and no control beyond turning the engine off it had to be incredibly precise, miss by even a tenth of a second either way and it misses the Moon, by another tenth and it doesn’t even hit the Moon’s SOI.

[Hotel26]

After two recent incidents involving the first type of rotary aircraft shown below:

  <--- that one;  not this one --->

the KTSB have conducted preliminary tests on it (above left: Chippewa) and also on the Coaster Sports (above: right) to determine whether:

a) these aircraft are "safe to fly" and
b) whether KSP, a publicly-traded game "for amusement", is capable of supporting auto-rotation, which is deemed essential for the safety of the game-playing public.

Here, KTSB employee, Donsted Kerman ( I believe that is pronounced "Don-sted Ker-man"), risks his life climbing to 3 km to test the Chippewa across the bay, so as not to endanger the lives, also, of the Kerbin Space Center Fire Fighting Units.

     
 

Donsted was able to safely guide the Chippewa to a soft touch-down after cutting the gas to the twin Junos and initiating a precipitous dive [sink rate: 50+ m/s].  Rotor revolutions were maintained on limited battery power.

Donsted also determined that the Coaster Sports is capable of level flight at a mere 12 m/s with the rotors turning at 460 rpm with zero collective applied.  Note though that the Coaster is not a pure rotary craft (as it has wings).

The KTSB report filed stated that the first incident involving the Chippewa was caused by a failure to refuel the vehicle before use ["pilot error"] and the second incident (crash site pictured above) involved a high-speed, wheeling descent at an altitude of 5 km "without due care" or "commensurate understanding of the operation of a rotorcraft at high altitude, nor of proper procedure recovering from a high-speed descent [pilot error]".

Finally, after a separate test, using the Coaster, the KTSB issued a NOTAM indicating that "KSP does not support true auto-rotation" and advised "all airmen to desist using KSP, for any purpose, until the software problem is diagnosed and repaired^[1]"

[1] KSP2?
 

 

Edited December 13, 2020 by Hotel26