What did you do in KSP1 today?

[Little 908]

I have enough! 

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[Little 908]

nice

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Edited May 7, 2023 by Little 908

[miklkit]

Decided it was time to visit Moho.  Knowing it takes a lot of DV I started with a relay satellite that easily made it to Jool.  Methinks that is the Mohole.

Then came a scanner satellite that made it to Laythe, and it is all good.

Then came a crewed flight.  The mobile science lab needed some redesigning to get the range, but it made it!

 

This is a one way trip so now to work out how to get a fuel truck there for refueling.  My biggest rocket is 4300 tons and still doesn't have the range.

[Scarecrow71]

As part of my KSP1 colonization science career, I realized I am a bit off from Scanning Tech, which I will need in order to scan celestial bodies for precious minerals to convert first into fuel and then into parts for an extral-Kerbinal launchpad.  So, needing the science, I decided to do a Kerbin-3.  Earned a tasty amount of Science doing that, too.

 

[suicidejunkie]

Constructed my first successful SSTO spaceplane (as the orange tank / skipper stack doesn't count) for this game run.

Aborted the first test flight to add some more stabilizers to the back, but the second made it up with ~50m/s to spare and I'm certain I can do the ascent better.

 

Didn't have the orbital infrastructure to top up on LF and fly home to KSC, but we did have a successful if rough landing far far away on some desert island.

RT-G2 in the back seat had no complaints about having to keep the meatbag alive with TACLS and also do most of the navigational work.

[Hotel26]

Pictured left is EGO Hedgehog station in the Eve-Gilly orbit which touches one of the Gilly orbital nodes.  It is a link in the fuel supply chain to Low Eve Orbit.

Attached are a Zippo 2 fuel lighter, 5x Zephyr second-stage boosters (retired from Kerbin) and a Mule nuclear tug.

Pictured right is the Mule taking two of the Zephyr boosters down to LEO where they will be used as descent arresters in conjunction with any traffic bound for the Eve surface.

    
 

                                                                                  

This is the brand-new Busby^[1] airport, 28km due west of KSC.  It has the distinction of being my very first, programmatic, cookie-cutter airport.  Yay.

I used the following command-line to run code to add it to my collection of airports:

airport Busby -0.1464 -77.4153 700 140 1700

The parameters are: name, lat, lon, alt, runway heading and length.

 

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For those familiar with & interested in Kerbal Konstructs, my cookie cutter generates the Group, 5x Map Decals and the Runway.

I find this more natural than creating one large, square Map Decal.

[1] Busby is named after my cat.

 

Edited May 9, 2023 by Hotel26

[Scarecrow71]

Continuing on with my Science career where I'm going after creating extra-Kerbinar (Kerbinal?  Kerbinage?  Kerbinity?) launchpads, I did a mission to Duna where I dropped satellites in Kerbolar, Ike, and Duna orbit, and then gathered a boatload of science.  No landings here!  Read all about it:

 

[Kimera Industries]

On 5/5/2023 at 1:45 PM, chimera industries said:

Well I haven't played KSP yet today but yesterday I worked a lot on my Laythe-Planes Wolf and Coyote for my upcoming Jool 5. I didn't get to fly them yet, but I added detachable fuel tanks, because these planes were getting heavy and I needed to save weight however I could. They're not very big, so calling them heavy is relative, but they were getting heavy for the single R.A.P.I.E.R. engine. Also, Coyote has a deployable rover! I just love the DLC rover wheels.

I've decided to do a bit of a design overhaul on the Laythe-Planes. Instead of just a single RAPIER engine, I have two on the ends of the wings. On the central fuselage, I had added a Whiplash engine, but I found that the 2 RAPIERs were enough to get into orbit, and the Whiplash engine sucked up almost all my liquid fuel, leaving my RAPIERs useless once in space. I might replace the Whiplash with either a liquid fuel tank or maybe the Nerv atomic engine. I'm thinking the fuel tank, I don't really have a use for a long-range, low-thrust engine like the Nerv, as the Laythe-Planes will rendezvous with the mothership in orbit.

[SPliT-xSEcoND]

Picked up A "Rescue around the Mun" contract and decided to complete the "Dock two vessels in orbit around the Mun" contract while I was at it.

Rendezvous with the Kerbal to be rescued.

Engineer got out to reconfigure the vessel to dock and docked.

Left everything used to dock as space junk. Possibly to be used in the future?

[kurgut]

3 old famous pictures that Bill found in a magazine while in the toilets of the astronaut complex. The front page had the headline "the First ever Space Kiss", it reminded him with nostalgia the humble beginnings of the KSC.

Sadly at that time, the last picture was censored due to the interstellar law on spaceporn media. 

Please contact me if you find the very rare uncensored version ! 

Edited May 9, 2023 by kurgut

[AtomicTech]

I messed around, again, with more air-launched rockets. I'll hopefully have the other new entries I recorded today posted on the forums later this week

 

[kurgut]

My first multi flyby probe sent to Blas and the inner system, those very short orbital periods and grav assists opportunities makes it very enjoyable to fly there !
Mission control noticed and acknowledged the presence of this tiny caked shaped moon. It was then very creatively named "Kak" by the Kerbal Space Committee ...
First spectrometry results induced that the yellow tint of the Blas planet was due to ancient cosmic-banana-radiations.
Further investigations will be concluded to evaluate if the surface ocean is indeed made of banana smoothie, thus providing infinite life support supply for near future kerbalized missions....
Hopes the heat won't too bad when flying by Cind, the lava planet close to Kerbol...
(it's the Quackpack mod which adds 3 inner system planets past Moho, which makes them challenging destinations, I recommend ! )

Edited May 10, 2023 by kurgut

[jimmymcgoochie]

Tested out a few upgrades on my current fleet of LVs, launched a couple of satellites…

Oh, and sent the first person into orbit almost a whole year before Vostok 1, and she actually completed an orbit, and a full 24 hours to boot.

(Vostok 1 was a massive scam: it landed west of where it launched and never completed an orbit of the Earth, Gagarin had almost no control at all- the override code to enable his controls was locked in a box!- and had to eject from the capsule and parachute down separately, all of which was conveniently omitted from the Soviet propaganda…  Hence why the RP-1 first crewed orbit contract requires a full 90 minutes in orbit to complete.)

[kurgut]

Today, our 2 brave kerbonauts Bob'nd Bill (I like how that sounds ), performed their first rendez-vous with a class A D.S.P. (Deep Space Pebble).

Mission control said to be careful and respect to the letter interstellar security protocoles about such things as "contamination", "radiation", "collision", "death", and certainly not attempt any EVA activities.

Bob took good notes of that, and consequently proceeded to immediatly venture into space,  incapable he was resisting the scientific appeal of the Deep Space Pebble...

And Bill even managed to take a nice shot of Bob, the spacecraft, the pebble, Kerbin and even the Mun ! Sure it'll be on the tomorow's Kerbal Space Gazette front page !

Indeed Bill noticed Bob was starting to get greener and to glow slightly as he stayed near the asteroid.  Also he observed that after Bob took a sample from its surface and tasted it (for scientific motivations of course), his eyes were eventually widening open with a constant big smiling face. He tought this wasn't safe, but said nothing since he never saw Bob so fulfilled.

They were 4 hours from kerbin reentry, and sadly they didn't have any means of saving the Rock from colliding into Kerbin's atmosphere, which made Bob feel very sad, as he already  sensed that a certain mutual relationship started growing between him and his beloved space dust aggregate.  

And so it all ended in fire.
the Deep Space Pebble was absorbed by Kerbin, and Bob, desperate, jealously kept his unique sample jar for himself. He would never tell to the R&D guys. 

But the next day, he noticed the air "tasted" different... And indeed all the kerbals of Kerbin displayed a slight and constant smile, on their slightly greener faces... His pebble was in the air, everywhere and forever. Bob was feeling better.   

Later the same day, Mission Control made an announcement :
"D.S.P. of class I - Gargantuan class - spotted 354 Mm of Kerbin, ETA in Kerbin's SOI 15 days, start preparing for rendez-vous and redirect mission procedure."
Bob's heart started pounding...

 

Edited May 10, 2023 by kurgut

[some_failure]

been trying to get a <100t base to the mun, then i realised how will i get the thrust to weight ratio right, still trying to figure it out and when i do i will upload it on YT B)

[kurgut]

I planned and sent a Duna scouting mission probe with an orbiter-lander

I just love desgning cool looking probes, I can't stop 

Then I flew a relaxing evening flight, to ferry a few tourists to the Island airfield and back, on the good old Cesnuk-1

[Scarecrow71]

I sent probes to both Mun and Minmus to do some orbital scanning for resources which, in my defense, is not my forte in this game.  I simply haven't done it enough to this point.  But that's kind of the point of this career save - to do things I haven't done before!  Read all about it:

 

[Little 908]

Put some probes in geostationary orbit around earth

[kurgut]

Finished this day by carefully designing a Dres Orbiter-lander, I'm happy with the result ! it's an evolution of the Duna spacecrafts I did earlier, but adapted to Dres of course ; )

And couldn't resist to a trip to the Kerbin Northern ice shelf... 

Edited May 10, 2023 by kurgut

[Nazalassa]

Do you like the altimeter?

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btw there's a new version of Naztheme out (0.3d)

[kurgut]

I deployed a relay satellite in polar orbit, with better antennas recently unlocked , and packaged with some mapping equipment !

Edited May 11, 2023 by kurgut

[miklkit]

Managed to get a gas truck to Moho!  It should have been easy but turned out to be hard.  Almost 4500 tons taking off.

Heading out.

Made it there with plenty to spare, I thought.

It turns out that with the fuel tanks almost empty it gets front heavy and destabilizes under 26 m/s.  Still it was not quite a crash landing.

It seems to drive ok when empty. 

Now to see if a spaceplane has the range to get there.

[Socraticat]

We now have an official KSP1 "OneOscar" Zero-G Club!

How to become a member:

Build or Download a "OneOscar" biplane, then use it to complete, or compete in, another forum.kerbal community challenge.

 

There's a Challenge for you to test your "OneOscar" or other craft's speed and prowess:

 

 

And  a video for you to make your very own, "OneOscar" FGM Spider

 

Join now and become an  0G "OneOscar" Member!

[jimmymcgoochie]

A wild Moon appeared!

Go, Impactor Probe!

Impactor Probe used Headbutt!

It’s not very effective…

[lucho]

What did I do in KSP1 today? I posted on this forum for the first time in almost three years!  So much time has passed, and I never found the time to post...  

that changes today...