What did you do in KSP1 today?

[N_Danger]

Val is sent up on a long duration mission

An upgraded vehicle has enough life support and power for 3 days.  

And a safe return is had.

A material science experiment was launched.

On orbit collecting the data. 

After which the samples are returned from orbit.

[Krazy1]

The Original Four finished gathering Bop science and also practically all of the Jool moon science.

The lander met with the scanner probe to consolidate the science. Here Bob pauses to gaze at Bop after gathering 500 experiments from the probe and stuffing them in the lab.

The only reason to gather all that science after unlocking the tech tree was to see how many experiments would fit in one lab. Presently the lab has 1461 experiments. But there could still be a limit, so their work goes on.  

On 1/27/2025 at 1:22 PM, Vanamonde said:

Upload the pics, then go to your images, then copy the BBCode link straight into your post here with no formatting. 

@Eclipse 32 or just right click the image and "copy image link" works for me

Edited 14 hours ago by Krazy1
English

[AlamoVampire]

This is just part of what Ive done today in KSP. More to do, but, this is some of it

Mission on approach to a landed Probe at the Mun, this mission delivered some ground science station stuff to the Mun. More will be deployed soon.

Bob being a goofball while deploying those solar arrays. No RCS pack because hey that stuff takes up space right?

Mission mostly complete, just gotta get back home!

The start of what I thought was a typical re-entry. The lower half of the lander races out ahead of the capsule.

Watching the lower half of the lander start to climb out of the atmosphere. This was around 35-37km above the deck. It was at this point I was wondering why descent was taking soo long. Turns out, i came in about as shallow as you could possibly come in <even with PE at about 40km prior to entry interface> and wound up taking a solid 3 minutes or so to re-enter fully. I had FULL ablator on the heatshield prior to re-entry. Finally after I was nearing the end of shock heating:

I couldnt help but giggle from the moment I took the picture above this one until shortly after splash down about 45 seconds later. What a ride. 234401282025

ok, i feel stupid for asking this, considering I am successfully uploading images and linking them, but, I am having to "copy image address" and use the insert image from URL thing on the bottom right of the editor. Where on imgur is the BBCode thing?? Am I just bad at imgur now or what? 234601282025

Ok, barring my imgur question, which if anyone knows why I am not seeing the BBCode thing please tell me , I am going to add some new mission stuff here, because Id rather just edit the post rather than make a full new one if that makes sense, especially since no one has posted in the 3-4 hours since this post. Onto the updates then!

My on going science station on the Mun. Anyone know how to silence the alerts from the station? Im fine with it passively collecting science, but, do I need it to tell me its gathered like 18 science every time? Just work quietly and I will be ok lol.

Here is my PAAS mission going up. Polar Active Anomalous Scanner <say it like this: Paws <like a kitties paw or a puppies paw >

And here IS PAAS having done an orbital survey of Kerbin at 1300Km

1300km Polar Orbit. 030501292025

Edited yesterday at 09:05 AM by AlamoVampire

[dok_377]

8 hours ago, AlamoVampire said:

That is SUPPOSED to be in geostationary orbit. I put them up in a rectangle formation <was the best I could do given the tech at the time> and KEO2 and KEO3 have closed in on each other. 

Different orbital periods will do that. You don't need to have them all on absolutely perfect orbits (I almost always do that anyway), they can have different ap and pe, but the periods all need to have the same exact time. Otherwise they will eventually drift apart (or closer together).

[AlamoVampire]

11 minutes ago, dok_377 said:

Different orbital periods will do that. You don't need to have them all on absolutely perfect orbits (I almost always do that anyway), they can have different ap and pe, but the periods all need to have the same exact time. Otherwise they will eventually drift apart (or closer together).

Gotcha. Ill correct it when i launch a new version when i unlock the ra-100 relays. Appreciate the clarity! 043001292025

[Cavscout74]

Continued on with my career the last few days.  Pulled off an orbital rescue via spaceplane, then got it into a flat spin after reentry that I barely recovered from.  Ended up landing in the desert instead of at the Desert Space Center.  All at night of course

Then it was time for the Duna crew to head back to orbit & start prepping for the return flight

Finally, my first Laythe lander for this career arrived & safely splashed down (after a slingshot around Tylo of course).  And as expected, it was also all at night.  Didn't even stop to grab a shot of it actually splashed down.

[Kimera Industries]

@AlamoVampire Whenever I copy an image from Imgur with the "copy image url" I never use the "Insert image from URL" (frankly I didn't know it existed until now.) I just paste the link into the post and when you hit enter, it should load as an image. That's how I've always done it.

[Eclipse 32]

I've got three planets (two stock, one modded) all with their SOIs touching, I'm pretty sure

Jool, Eeloo, and a modded planet named Ariane.

[Eclipse 32]

anyone know of a good CKAN rescue contract mod?

[Kimera Industries]

12 minutes ago, Eclipse 32 said:

anyone know of a good CKAN rescue contract mod?

This isn't what you're looking, for but if you're into rescue missions Rescue Pod Validator makes sure the Kerbal spawn in a module with a hatch.

[Eclipse 32]

3 minutes ago, Kimera Industries said:

This isn't what you're looking, for but if you're into rescue missions Rescue Pod Validator makes sure the Kerbal spawn in a module with a hatch.

i'm more thinking "kerbal hiking team stuck in bad weather on mountain" type rescues.

[FezCool]

Continuing with my previous escapade I designed and sent an Asteroid Miner to the Asteroid parked in Mun orbit, now titled as "The Exuberant Sunrise."

After drilling and experimenting with re-arranging parts in EVA I thought it would be fun to fill the ore tanks in the Mun station via successive drilling and rendevous runs. Unfortunately after the intial run I spent an hour trying to manage to hook to the asteroid again and eventually got frustrated enough that the ship collided with the asteroid and destroyed one of the radial engines. Luckily I had Kathmin attach the other engine under the center of mass and the damaged ship returned home.

I also realized that the SSTO I had left parked on the Mun definitely had enough fuel to at least orbit, but no Pilots to control the vessel so a plan was devised to send Kerbonauts down to the surace to recover the Shuttle.

Through my ingenius piloting we managed to land directly next to the spaceplane, stunning all of the Kerbals on board.

After receiving a Pilot the shuttle orbited and Mun Station sent over our resident Mining Ship to use ore reserves to refuel the vessel, once again an extremely close approach. I'm on fire today! 

After docking I designed a little refinery to fit into the cargo bay of the shuttle but as it was pretty late I called it a day there.

[AlamoVampire]

So here I am playing science and looking for a way to unlock about 1300ish science for some larger batteries, probe cores and other assorted things when I see something in the tracking station that grabbed my eye. I had an asteroid or something danger close to to Kerbin on a collision course. Well, that stopped me dead in my tracks because I had to redirect the asteroid. At this point I lack the rendezvous/docking portions of mechjeb's control and to date I had never really manually docked by hand. Docking is WHY I got mechjeb so many years ago, and why i still advocate for players to use it to this day. Yes, there are videos and tutorials aplenty on the subject, but, I promise there are players like me, that no matter how many videos or manuals or tutorials on a subject you read/watch you just cant pick up the skill. So, thats why I got mechjeb. It showed how MY rockets flew. What I never figured was that I was slowly absorbing what it was doing with what I built, showing me, teaching me how my craft that are birthed from my mind fly in KSP. ANYWAY long way of saying that, when it mattered just now, I was able to get into the asteroids plane and get myself a 4km encounter. That was as close as as I could wrangle with a maneuver node. When I got with in that 4km I was able to brute force my way into a good position. I actually <dont shame me for this, i am bloody proud of myself!> was able to manually rendezvous AND dock with a class D asteroid!!! I have it on a 35 dayish orbit with a PE of about 250km from the direct collision course it WAS on. I also saw the comet Ive been tracking while launching!

This is the risen from the ashes of my test save, if only in name, Capture 2 launching for the class D asteroid. See that? The comet is down near Moho's orbit at the moment and gave me quite the shock when I saw it. I WILL chase that bugger down one day. One day!

about 60m to go! Even now, I am grinning thinking about this moment! 

Just a beauty shot here.

The money shot of all money shots for me, my first manual docking! Yea, I know, been playing since 0.21 back in 2013. I cant dock to save my life in a sandbox save, but, when the chips are down, the cards dealt and a space boulder is looking to punch a planet and ive minimal tech I pull this off?? Ill buy that for a dollar! I am proud. And having said that, I am now sad  This a moment that id love to share with my momma, but I cant. God this moment went from sweet to bitter sweet in a nanosecond. Sorry to end this triumph on a sad note. 050201302025

[Kimera Industries]

6 hours ago, AlamoVampire said:

So here I am playing science and looking for a way to unlock about 1300ish science for some larger batteries, probe cores and other assorted things when I see something in the tracking station that grabbed my eye. I had an asteroid or something danger close to to Kerbin on a collision course. Well, that stopped me dead in my tracks because I had to redirect the asteroid. At this point I lack the rendezvous/docking portions of mechjeb's control and to date I had never really manually docked by hand. Docking is WHY I got mechjeb so many years ago, and why i still advocate for players to use it to this day. Yes, there are videos and tutorials aplenty on the subject, but, I promise there are players like me, that no matter how many videos or manuals or tutorials on a subject you read/watch you just cant pick up the skill. So, thats why I got mechjeb. It showed how MY rockets flew. What I never figured was that I was slowly absorbing what it was doing with what I built, showing me, teaching me how my craft that are birthed from my mind fly in KSP. ANYWAY long way of saying that, when it mattered just now, I was able to get into the asteroids plane and get myself a 4km encounter. That was as close as as I could wrangle with a maneuver node. When I got with in that 4km I was able to brute force my way into a good position. I actually <dont shame me for this, i am bloody proud of myself!> was able to manually rendezvous AND dock with a class D asteroid!!! I have it on a 35 dayish orbit with a PE of about 250km from the direct collision course it WAS on. I also saw the comet Ive been tracking while launching!

This is the risen from the ashes of my test save, if only in name, Capture 2 launching for the class D asteroid. See that? The comet is down near Moho's orbit at the moment and gave me quite the shock when I saw it. I WILL chase that bugger down one day. One day!

about 60m to go! Even now, I am grinning thinking about this moment! 

Just a beauty shot here.

The money shot of all money shots for me, my first manual docking! Yea, I know, been playing since 0.21 back in 2013. I cant dock to save my life in a sandbox save, but, when the chips are down, the cards dealt and a space boulder is looking to punch a planet and ive minimal tech I pull this off?? Ill buy that for a dollar! I am proud. And having said that, I am now sad  This a moment that id love to share with my momma, but I cant. God this moment went from sweet to bitter sweet in a nanosecond. Sorry to end this triumph on a sad note. 050201302025

Great job! Docking is hard. 

How do you rendezvous with asteroids? I can't see their orbit lines in the tracking station.

[Eclipse 32]

6 minutes ago, Kimera Industries said:

Great job! Docking is hard. 

How do you rendezvous with asteroids? I can't see their orbit lines in the tracking station.

you need to track Unknown Objects, and have the Space Objects filter on. their orbits should show up then.

[Kimera Industries]

11 minutes ago, Eclipse 32 said:

you need to track Unknown Objects, and have the Space Objects filter on. their orbits should show up then.

How do I track them? Because I can see the question mark symbols meaning something is there, but they disappear after a while.

Sorry for all the questions, I've never hunted an asteroid before.

[Eclipse 32]

3 minutes ago, Kimera Industries said:

How do I track them? Because I can see the question mark symbols meaning something is there, but they disappear after a while.

Sorry for all the questions, I've never hunted an asteroid before.

 

go to the tracking station, click on an object, and if your station is level 3 (for career) a blue button should light up in the craft list on the side. click it, and you're now tracking the object! as for the questions, it's fine!

[Kimera Industries]

6 minutes ago, Eclipse 32 said:

go to the tracking station, click on an object, and if your station is level 3 (for career) a blue button should light up in the craft list on the side. click it, and you're now tracking the object! as for the questions, it's fine!

Thank you! I didn't know the tracking station could do that. I guess it's time for an OSIRIS-REx type mission, then!

[Eclipse 32]

good luck!