Hyperspace Industries Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 I fired up ksp, and after 20 minutes loading with less mods than usual, it struggled to run... Yup, I think I broke my laptop, shouldn't have left it charging for months on end... At least it runs, and I managed to build one of the ships from my story I'm writing: Spoiler The Red Arrow, a racing ship turned warship: (I forgot to add radiators, but otherwise it's accurate to the story) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 The eldest and I spent the last couple of days building a fighter plane for Scott Manley's Runway Project. Quite a different experience for me, a seasoned spaceplane veteran, to build a plane with the exact opposite characteristics of what makes for a good SSTO plane. Plane itself was a decent enough design but I'm pretty sure BD Armory's AI doesn't like me very much. The fact that it had to be armed with an Abrams tank turret also threw me off a bit. Second half of the challenge is artwork; I might post whatever the boy and I come up with here in a few days after we've submitted our entry. I wish I had screenies of the plane itself to share with y'all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puggonaut Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Installed the latest JRsULitmatePack ............and well ............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmymcgoochie Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Due to a miscalculation in the engineering department, the apparently daunting task of producing half a million units of liquid fuel via Kerbalism's notoriously difficult ISRU processes has shrunk to a more reasonable 60,000 units; still a challenge, but with a big new power supply on its way and the fuel tanker now on site things are looking up. There's an old nuclear booster lying around somewhere with a dribble of fuel left, maybe I can put that to use somehow; after all, Gilly's gravity is so weak it can fly on RCS alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david50517 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 I am visiting in the base. KerbalX - Base Dome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewie Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 (edited) After grinding out the tech tree, I've kicked back and been developing a Virgin Galactic Inspired tourist plane named APR Starlight-Ascension (the carrier is the SPR Flame Bat) Spoiler I am going to build a better carrier plane, it tops out at 300 m/s at 8,000 meters with the space plane. I don't care for how it 'sits' on top of Starlight, so I'm going to add two Mk2 fuselages on the wings, slap more engines on that+bigger wings. Starlight does have two junos, but the thrust is so measly to the point that it is only capable of a powered glide. so, I need to add more junos, extend the carrier and unlock the external command seat. I designed the plane to be inherently stable, so it's really just 'fire and forget'. I want to be able to have some kerbals in the back and float 'em around in micro-gravity. Edited October 28, 2021 by Lewie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdinaryKerman Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 (edited) More like "this week" My first KK static (ignore the Kerbinside Kampus I attached it to) EDIT: After warping to sunset, I confirmed that the window glow animation works And continuing with the "not exactly following the thread title" thing, here's a replica of the stock XL Nissen huts with some bits changed: Edited October 29, 2021 by OrdinaryKerman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adsii1970 Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 4 hours ago, OrdinaryKerman said: My first KK static Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MythicalHeFF Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 (edited) Made some modifications to the KSS Hampton, a craft I used to capture a class D asteroid to build a space station around. Namely, I replaced the claws with a docking port so I could attach a crew module to the front of it. I will use the Hampton to retrieve the crew of my Tylo rover once its mission is complete. I’m currently working on a mission report in this thread: I also refueled it so it would have enough dV to complete its mission. Edited October 30, 2021 by Jack Joseph Kerman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus92 Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I made a little gif of my adventures with kOS! Automated Launch & First Stage Recovery and Landing of the Ship: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien21 Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I launched with Ballistic maneuver a Proton Rocket to Duna with 1 orbiter and 1 lander. The Red Tandem mission will try to study more in detail Duna and also Ike! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DunaManiac Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I haven't seen a lot of mk2 fighter planes recently, so I decided to build my own: Behold the Indivisible series. This particular model has a missile launcher mounted on top to make quick work of surface Anti-Aircraft Artillery and slow lumbering bombers. It flies remarkably well despite the missile emplacement. So I put it up against another fighter jet I designed (inspired by the F-16), the G4B. The G4B mostly evaded the missiles due to it's counter-measures but the Indivisable's guns made quick work of the G4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuranAce Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 (edited) Tonight on kerbal gear Edited October 30, 2021 by BuranAce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xt007 Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Testing out Artemis is RO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of nowhere Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 I put on hold my main mission to start an elcano on OPM Slate. Slate would be a beautiful planet, if it wasn't so hard to drive on it. For this I created a new rover. It was meant to be showy, good in mountain terrain, and fun to drive. due to its gaudy aspect, i called it Tamarromobile (which roughly translates as pimpmobile) that cupola on top is mounted on a rotating servo, so that i can set it on continuous rotation with a KAL controller and enjoy a 360° panorama. To make it challenging, i decided i would send the rover in a real mission, and I would try to do it with a single launch. I launched bigger ships before, but i never had such a ridiculously oversized payload fairing. it weighted 50 tons alone but it was spectacular when it was activated From right to left: the last stage of the launcher, which still has a few hundred m/s left. then the cruise stage, with enough fuel to reach slate after a jool gravity assist. then there is a Mk3 crew cabin, that's the reentry capsule; together with the hitchhicker container next to it they make up the return module. there's also a couple of large antennas with probe cores, those are relay satellites to be deployed around. then there is the ascent vehicle, to carry the crew from the surface back to the return module. and finally the rover proper, with its sky crane. the sky crane was unconventional, because the cupola is blocking its normal binding point at the rover's center of mass. so i had to use two sky cranes equidistant from the center of mass, and I had to make them asymmetric. This in turn prevented them to just fly upward, so I had to devise the peculiar way to remove it shown in the picture. Before removing the other sky crane, i have to rotate the cupola out of the way. one of the sky cranes broke an rtg in the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Kerbal Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Made a Duna SSTO and landed. But then I realized my TWR was below 0.4 and I gotta start all over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmymcgoochie Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Landed on and returned from the surface of Eve, then headed up to Ike and landed there too. Also sent a massive fuel tanker to Moho because my mining operation just wasn’t working out. (Ike turned out to be translucent, which is a bit weird but probably a mod issue.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerb24 Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 I now have a way of getting my Eve lander to Eve orbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmborg Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Looks amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 This is a bit minor, but I did my first ever solar orbit rendezvous today! I've been playing since 2013 and somehow I haven't needed to until today. So I started a new science mode recently and on the top is the IMS-01 Intrepid, which is a seven module interplanetary mothership going to land on Duna. I took three crew from a station to it in a small spaceplane. The pilot went over, and I took the engineer next to connect the struts. However I got so caught up doing the struts that I forgot to take the scientist over! The ship was about a week away from Kerbin before I noticed that I couldn't reset my science experiments, so I launched Bob on board a large high Delta-V rocket called SOAR (bottom) and managed to catch up to the ship within a few days, with enough fuel left over to probably do the entire trip over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemon cup Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 Our ISS recreation project continues. STS-108 is complete! Check out our latest progress here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annanikolson Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 Today I just joined you. Today will be my first launch, so wish me luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 On 10/27/2021 at 8:15 AM, Hyperspace Industries said: Yup, I think I broke my laptop, shouldn't have left it charging for months on end... *Nervous sweating 5 hours ago, annanikolson said: Today I just joined you. Today will be my first launch, so wish me luck Welcome to the forums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Doodling Astronaut Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, annanikolson said: Today I just joined you. Today will be my first launch, so wish me luck It will be a brutal but hopefully an enjoyable first several missions, but those (IMO,) are the best ones from a learning standpoint. Edited October 31, 2021 by The Doodling Astronaut grammer correction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delay Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 I tried doing a "hard" career today. It took me 5 attempts and I'll have to start a 6th time because the very basic rockets I haven't built for years are not aerodynamically doing what I want them to (the Hammer seems to have slightly weird physics)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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