What did you do in KSP1 today?

[Pipcard]

{ARA] Y3, D36 - Microscopium 2 performs the first landing on an asteroid (this is a class A asteroid enlarged by Galaxies Unbound)

Y3, D168 - Castor City, a permanent colony composed of 20-meter "Atlas" domes, is built entirely on Minmus using only local resources (MKS + Extraplanetary Launchpads)

(comparison with the old Castor Base before it was recycled into Material Kits)

Edited May 11 by Pipcard

[Kimera Industries]

I built the Hail Mary  from the book Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir.

The final version is more refined, and the centrifuge does work. It's a fickle beast but it only needs to work once for my project.

Spoiler

Then for fun, I built the other ship which shows up...

[space_otter]

I installed JNSQ and Spectra together! Now I feel ready to start another career save.

https://i.imgur.com/kwCNMgo.png

Edited May 12 by space_otter

[Mickel]

Ticked over 1,000 hours (not that it is all active... I'd be coasting to Minmus and go to the shops and come back four hours later...).

My 2024 game BSOD'd and corrupted the save file, so my Duna, Dres & Eve missions were for nought.  So I started again, twice.  Once on 10% science return (Don't.  Just don't...) and again on 30% (which seems to be working ok).  My rocket files weren't corrupted, fortunately.

Still loads to explore.

Edited May 12 by Mickel

[ColdJ]

Been rewatching Battlestar Galactica, 20 years since the last series and got inspired.

So far I have created a Mk I single, a Mk I two seater and a Mk VII  that are fully functional. ( except for their own internals, I don't seem to enjoy making them so I leave them till last.)

And new style Cylon Raider that I need to chop up and rig so that it flies in a practical fashion. Most of the pictures I found to work from were of a special version someone had made so mine is part that and part TV series.

[Admiral Fluffy]

I rescued some long lost kerbals stranded on the top of the Mun!

And I made a monstrosity truly worthy of the title "Untitled Space Craft".
It can carry 52 kerbals to orbit!

Surprisingly, everyone survived!

[Kimera Industries]

11 hours ago, Admiral Fluffy said:

And I made a monstrosity truly worthy of the title "Untitled Space Craft".

My vessels with the prefix "USC" are always the best ones.

[GDJ]

Just flying my planes and practicing landings……with some success.

[miklkit]

Welp, it rolled out fine.  Going back in, not so much.

Edited May 14 by miklkit

[Kimera Industries]

The Hail Mary (centrifuge demo only, though) is finished. I might upload a video soon.

[TwoCalories]

10 hours ago, Kimera Industries said:

The Hail Mary (centrifuge demo only, though) is finished. I might upload a video soon.

Excellent! Also, really small detail, but how the triangular structural panel fits in perfectly with the double fuselage adapters for the engine segment is just so satisfying. 

[Kimera Industries]

1 hour ago, TwoCalories said:

Also, really small detail, but how the triangular structural panel fits in perfectly with the double fuselage adapters for the engine segment is just so satisfying. 

I know!  There were a lot of parts that worked out well for this ship. 

[Kerbalwerks]

[Kimera Industries]

Ever wanted a VTOL fighter aircraft, but tired of the issues with robotics parts or extra engines? Try making a tail-sitter!

The HX-TSV-01 [WARNING: TOP SECRET: YOU WILL BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY AND ALL SECURITY BREACHES] is just that: an incredibly simple plane, highly maneuverable and fast. It's the literal embodiment of the KISS design philosophy.

It effortlessly transitions between horizontal and vertical flight, and its small footprint makes it ideal for cramped carriers.

(Me struggling to land )

Pre-order your squadron today, for only 30,000 per unit!

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[Kimera Industries]

The Hadley Corporation also offers a slimmer variant of the HX-TSV-01:

Built using standard Mk 2 fuselage pieces, the HX-TSV-01A has a lighter airframe and better performance. Now capable of supercruising at Mach 1.1 and reaching speeds of up to Mach 3 on afterburner, it makes for an unmatched interceptor.

Thanks to the lower weight, VTOL can now be performed without afterburner as well.

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[Krazy1]

I've been exploring Duna (JNSQ). Relay-scanner sent first...

Spoiler

 

[SpacePixel]

 

This rather bland screenshot features the Superstorm, my sleekest spaceplane yet. At around 50 tons of liftoff mass, it packs an SSTA package on just 2 RAPIER engines. There's a 10-degree offset NERV between the RAPIERs to avoid thrust torque in vacuum and a tiny rover in the Mk2 cargo bay. The spaceplane flies about as well as you'd imagine with all these wings (stall speed could not be measured), and somehow does not have a travelling CoM. It's a surprisingly useful, beautiful and stable spaceplane for me, who can usually only manage any two of the three.  

[N_Danger]

The upgrades for Everyone program gets under way with a mission to the Mun on an upgraded booster.

Lener does some science .

The new lander can carry surface experiments.

Lener heads back to orbit and catches a view of Kerbin on the way up

Science gets transferred 

And the mission concludes with 2 good chutes

 

 

[Kimera Industries]

2 hours ago, SpacePixel said:

 

This rather bland screenshot features the Superstorm, my sleekest spaceplane yet. At around 50 tons of liftoff mass, it packs an SSTA package on just 2 RAPIER engines. There's a 10-degree offset NERV between the RAPIERs to avoid thrust torque in vacuum and a tiny rover in the Mk2 cargo bay. The spaceplane flies about as well as you'd imagine with all these wings (stall speed could not be measured), and somehow does not have a travelling CoM. It's a surprisingly useful, beautiful and stable spaceplane for me, who can usually only manage any two of the three.  

That's the most beautiful plane I've ever seen in my life. It sounds amazing, too. 

[Krazy1]

LJP410 crew is about half done hopping around Duna for science and anomalies. I can't be lackadaisical with nuclear engines, an annoying atmosphere and JNSQ size. I have "not landed" several times.  To stay stable, I need to transfer fuel forward for ascent and pump it aft when flipping at AP. Long distance flights take up to 4 km/s dV. Got many nice screenshots though.

Spoiler

Going to Ike for an ore hauling contract

The pale blue dot of Kerbin overhead at dawn

[TwoCalories]

9 hours ago, SpacePixel said:

 

This rather bland screenshot features the Superstorm, my sleekest spaceplane yet. At around 50 tons of liftoff mass, it packs an SSTA package on just 2 RAPIER engines. There's a 10-degree offset NERV between the RAPIERs to avoid thrust torque in vacuum and a tiny rover in the Mk2 cargo bay. The spaceplane flies about as well as you'd imagine with all these wings (stall speed could not be measured), and somehow does not have a travelling CoM. It's a surprisingly useful, beautiful and stable spaceplane for me, who can usually only manage any two of the three.  

The plane is beautiful, and the picture is beautiful as well! What visual mods and TUFX profile are you using?

[SpacePixel]

@TwoCalories, @Kimera Industries thank you for the kind words and I managed to snap a picture which looks a little better to my taste:

 

The TUFX profile is Lighthouse 2 I think from this pack, and clouds are Blackrack's volumetrics. I tweaked no settings, but I do photoshop the colors in my screenshots. I guess one could tweak TUFX and PlanetShine to achieve the same end result, but more often than not I go for a particular feel and Lighthouse 2 offers a great baseline from which you can go pretty much anywhere.

 

[N_Danger]

A Mission to the last unvisited biome on Minmus. The polar one

Capture at Minmus

There is not much to choose from in LZ's. Anything resembling flat will do.

But like golfing, I hit the hole between the mountains, landed and was able to explore a bit.

Time to leave. We landed in shadow and the batteries were draining. So it was grab what science we could and hope sunlight will eventualy  allow the surface experiment to work.

But after that, routine operations ending in a successful landing

 

[ironcal67]

I got inspired by @Kimera Industries and decided to build a Hail Mary replica of my own. This is how it's going so far:

 Oh wait I don't know how to paste pictures . Can someone help?

Long story short, it mostly works, but it's very vigorous in some edge cases. Also it's 2.5m instead of the 1.25m version that Kimera Industries made. I think it's more realistic.

[Kimera Industries]

11 hours ago, ironcal67 said:

Long story short, it mostly works, but it's very vigorous in some edge cases. Also it's 2.5m instead of the 1.25m version that Kimera Industries made. I think it's more realistic.

I would have done 2.5m but I don't have Tweakscale, so I stuck with 1.25m because it had the bi-adapter thingy.

If you go to imgur.com/upload, you can browse your files until you find your screenshots folder (it's somewhere in the Steam folders) and upload pictures to Imgur. When Imgur is done uploading them, you can right-click the image and select "copy image." You can then paste it in a post.