What did you do in KSP1 today?

[DunaManiac]

I spent most of saturday and a little bit today flying 3 missions, delivering the fertilizer and supply tanks for the Starbase. I'm lifting them 2 at a time. The last of the missions takes off.

The early morning launch allows us to see the sunrise as the plane passes 300 m/s.

Orbital insertion and rendevous take a few in-game hours to do.

With rendevous and docking complete, it's time for the next phase of the mission.

The tug stored at the station undocks and enters the cargo bay, docking with a logistics module inside.

Then, the tug maneuvers the logistics module to the desired port.

Afterwards, it undocks for the second one, re-entering the cargo bay and pulling out the second logistics module.

With all modules out attatched, the tug returns to its port.

[Axelord FTW]

Well, it didn't blow up, which is nice, but it bounced pretty hard. No wheels were broken either, but I'm thinking launching anything heavier than this would be pulling the devil's tail.

[Krazy1]

I got Gigaklaw launched without aero forces destroying it by reducing the 12m Clydesdale thrust  to 90% and taking a more vertical launch arc. I probably did 100 contracts to get 12 M funds to pay for this beast. The left ship has a 5m core tank 

 

[Axelord FTW]

@Krazy1
Ooh, I'm liking those resource icons. Is it a standalone mod? 

Edited May 2, 2022 by Axelord FTW

[Krazy1]

4 minutes ago, Axelord FTW said:

@Krazy1
Ooh, I'm liking those resource icons. Is it a standalone mod? 

Alternate Resource Panel and TiggerAu Flags. I think the latter is suggested when you install the former with CKAN.

Edited May 2, 2022 by Krazy1
EDIT: actually the ARP display icons come that way without the flags addon

[Axelord FTW]

Thanks! Just the fact that they are colored will help greatly when managing complex production outposts.

[xub313]

I sent a probe to fly by Moho in my career save. I just barely had enough fuel after I messed up my ejection burn. Moho is not to be underestimated. Those 4 antennas just barely give me enough signal strength on hard difficulty.

[Echo__3]

I tried lithobraking on Duna. And it actually worked!

 

[MythicalHeFF]

Visited Derbin's moons in Whirligig World, and had a pretty good laugh at this science report:

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I also sent an ion-powered probe to Shol, a hot-Jupiter type planet with over twice the radius of Jool and extremely high temperatures. Unfortunately, the probe overheated before it was able to complete its orbital insertion burn.

Edited May 2, 2022 by Jack Joseph Kerman

[Autochrome]

On 4/30/2022 at 8:55 AM, fleventeen said:

Life can always throw a spanner in the works, but sometimes it's good to take a break too.

Alright, after finally getting back from out of town and stopping touching some grass, I uploaded the next chapter of my forum series in Mission Reports. If anyone wants to check it out, it's here.

Edited May 3, 2022 by Austin_Kerman
Or just check my signature, either one if you want.

[Axelord FTW]

 Had a contract to get a craft to fly-by Moho and recover science from its surface. I simply loaded up a surface sample into a quickly put-together return pod and sent it home. Simple stuff.
Started thinking about interplanetary stuff, and decided to start with a totally-not-a-radiotelescope-dish relay that I would send in the general direction of whatever solar system I decide to go and see first. Can't launch from Kerbin, and even launching that from the surface of the Mun might just spell trouble, so it has now become a job for the Munar orbital facility. It doesn't have the required storage for the deuterium and Helium-3 needed to power the relay's fusion engine, so one of the first thing that had to be done was to add some tanks. While the station is capable of completely automated assembly, I decided to finally send some crew up. One pilot, one scientist and two engineers. The pilot would be lowered to the surface facility to work as a trucker for the Helium-3, while the scientist and engineers stayed in orbit to man the station proper. The shuttle was then fed into the grinder. That done, the new storage tanks were made and installed, after which the RCS gantry was also fed back into the station's grinding maw.
Then I started lifting some rocket parts from the surface to feed the station, The Relay would require just short of fifty-thousand units, which the station can actually hold all at once. Another trip would be necessary to top the RP stores, but I'll wait and see if anything else can be recycled first.
A day later, I got an alarm telling me my mission to Neidon was about to enter its SOI. At a respectable clip of 14,000m/s relative to the ice giant, the deceleration burn would take a little twenty minutes, which is still happening, right now, as I type this.

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EDIT: Well, there it goes!

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EDIT2: Even though the Interstellar crew is still doing a 'shakedown' voyage to the outer planets, I churned out another, better version of the ship with a better lander (which is mostly the Tylo lander with some tweaks, instead of the monstrous lithium powered lander). The current vessel will probably get recycled (I'll also need to vastly expand the scrap-metal capacity of the facility in Munar orbit. It can eat through most tankers and other miscellaneous stuff with room to spare, but just. If I don't get more storage space, most of it will just get sent to the shadow realm or something. Not that it's really a pressing matter, as the recycling will not happen yet for at least two years. In any case, one of the things I changed for this version was tone down the amount of lithium on board (it was totally overkill) and put on some liquid hydrogen and liquid methane (plus needed oxidizer). No real uses but it gives me more options for the creation of small probes.

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Edited May 4, 2022 by Axelord FTW

[Br0wnie007]

Started to build a dual turboprop engine plane

On the runwaylifting off

Just flying

[Axelord FTW]

Neat plane.

As for me, I swapped out the Deut/LHe3 storage on the orbital station for scrap metal storage. Everything was done 'in house' and nothing was wasted. Started by building a simple tug, pulled out the Deut/LHe3 tanks off (bit of a sticky docking port problem but nothing an engineer couldn't fix by hand) and feeding it into the shredder. Then I built basically the same tug once more but with some scrap metal tanks. Same process was repe7ated, but in reverse. In total, this raised the SM storage capacity of the station from just over 6,500 to over 74,000. It should now be capable of eating up almost anything.
 

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Edit: Oh, and also!

Edited May 4, 2022 by Axelord FTW

[Admiral Fluffy]

Made an SSTO

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Full thing here, If you want it.

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/11189-the-k-prize-100-reusable-spaceplane-to-orbit-and-back/page/125/

 

 

[Misguided Kerbal]

[KeaKaka]

3 hours ago, Misguided Kerbal said:

I am confused and disturbed by your tactics, sir.

[Akagi]

Started doing the "All callsigns, check in" meme in KSP

[OrdinaryKerman]

Made a rocket launch truck for whatever reason

We cut a few 'S1 Utility Vehicles' apart and joined them together with a hole in the middle. It's not carrying nukes. Truck parts from OSUV.

Raising rocket. For some reason I decided to put the exhaust hole in the middle of the truck. so I had to have a piston pull it forward as well.

Raised and locked.

Launch went relatively normal other than the launch platform bouncing up slightly when the rocket launched due to the large reduction in load.

Going up

Second stage firing

Upper stage for final orbit insertion

Because I'm doing this in an install with modlist highly influenced by my younger brother, I have BDArmory but not SCANsat. So without ground imaging telescopes or mapping radar, I installed a FLIR ball instead. Yes, I set the antenna direction 'backwards' from the sensible direction, I didn't notice until too late.

Edited May 5, 2022 by OrdinaryKerman
Restock allows you to set the HG-5's dish to deploy forwards or backwards

[Kebab Kerman]

Made a few things on KSP EDU, since my school recently got it for our Aerospace class.

A station, completed in a single launch, put around Minmus.

An SSTO, to take the kerbals I forgot to put in the station, to the station.

Another SSTO, because I clearly didn't go large enough the first time.

Both SSTOs have a main fusion engine for vacuum burns, and scaled-up Whiplash engines for atmospheric. The second SSTO includes a refinery for refilling the liquid fuel tanks, since the Whiplashes are very thirsty, and six Mk3 crew cabins.

Edited May 5, 2022 by Kebab Kerman

[Akagi]

3 minutes ago, Kebab Kerman said:

Made a few things on KSP EDU, since my school recently got it for our Aerospace class.

What's the difference between EDU and standard?

[Kebab Kerman]

11 minutes ago, Akagi said:

What's the difference between EDU and standard?

EDU is stuck on 1.2.2 and has some unique info stuff, like most of the craft information that's given to you stock in modern versions, though to a lesser and less versatile extent. It also has some unique parts and built-in craft specially made for it, including a B-52 with an X-15.

Edited May 5, 2022 by Kebab Kerman
typo

[Akagi]

5 minutes ago, Kebab Kerman said:

EDU is stuck on 1.2.2 and has some unique info stuff, like most of the craft information that's given to you stock in modern versions, though to a lesser and less versatile extent. It also has some unique parts and built-in craft specially made for it, including a B-52 with an X-15.

Looks like some spaceplane mods in there too

[Kebab Kerman]

Just now, Akagi said:

Looks like some spaceplane mods in there too

Only mods used there are Interstellar Extended and the Mk3 Expansion. SpaceY is also there, but I'm not sure if I used parts from it for anything other than the rocket that launched the station.

[Rakete]

This...

Small Eve-Base with ascender for return to orbit.

 

[Bej Kerman]

On 4/16/2022 at 12:48 AM, Akagi said:

Built a very strange airplane, flew it a bit, then bailed out. Left KSP open in the background

My fellow Kerbals, I am proud to announce I have created a self-flying airplane.

That's just how airplanes work. If the torque from the reaction wheels isn't too weak or if your wings are somewhat balanced, then your plane shouldn't nose down below the horizon when it gets too high.