Mode7 Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Landed the first of my heavy kethane mining equipment on Duna. Three crazy landers to bring down three very different craft. Learned a ton about large rover delivery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 More roving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brapness Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Construction continues on the Pegasus. Chief Engineer Kirberry Kerman has discovered a fuel flow problem, thought to be the result of a broken connection between starboard-engine ASAS module and its fuel tank. At present mission control hope that it will not affect the mission as the starboard primary fuel tank simply has to be refilled partway through burns. Still it's a bad start to such a long duration mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDJ Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 More Aircraft tomfoolery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northlandsplasher Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 I got the first installment of my new MKO station in place. Using newest Fus Tek parts, just can't get enough of those I used the newest CORE release to get it moving, 28tons doesn't exactly want to sprint to the stars LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerba Fett Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 I wanted to see if I could get an off balance ship into orbit. it flies pretty good under forward thrust. It pulls to the left when I use the braking engines or RCS though. Need to do some thruster balancing. Sure makes the station look small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loerelau Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Landed on Laythe for the first time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brapness Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Was trialing different Lander designs today. The lander wasn't any good, but as I was landing I noticed an object. By complete chance I was coming down almost on top of the Armstrong memorial. I put down 1.3km from the monument, without any course change. I swear I wasn't aiming for it, to be honest if I was I probably wouldn't have got nearly so close, I'm not great at precision landings. I think this is a good omen for my planned grand tour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papics Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Damn it again... Everything went fine with my Jool system explorer Hermes 2 mission (Hermes 1 crashed into Laythe a few days ago), nicely passed (gravity assisted) by the two outer large moons before getting onto the final approach towards Laythe, but apparently my approach trajectory was too close, and my ion engine was not powerful enough to make the necessary correction by the time I figured out there was a problem... Hermes 2 consisted of an orbiter (which was supposed to travel further around the Jool system with plenty of fuel to visit all moons) and a small Laythe lander part, so at the end I tried saving the lander... Unluckily I could not avoid atmospheric entry, so while the lander survived and nicely descended using the main parachute with 5 m/s, since I had no control on the landing area, I splashed down into water :S The instruments survived, and the lander is still floating on the sea, I can not really put this as a lander into my logbook... Maybe next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Today I landed a beach buggy on Laythe. It can handle up to around 24-25 m/s easily and handles like a dream. I'm very proud of my beach buggy. Please like my beach buggy. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giggleplex777 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I successfully recreated the Navaho missile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellojoe Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I made a Mun base!And I parked the whole thing next to the Lunar Landing memorial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainbow-Dashie Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I FINALLY DOCKED! :D I got a reusable lander up to my shiny new, 6 crew interplanetary vessel. I spent a good 45 minutes trying to get that thing to rendezvous, and then dock... made harder by the fact my RCS was set up a bit wonky, so i wasn't able to move left or right, forcing me to delicately use the main engine for that...The lander ended up docking at the wrong angle, (wanted it parallel with the main ship) but... I am not risking anything right now!I haven't been this happy since I landed on the Mun for the first time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agentKmurph Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 First I built a space plane called the RS-17 Dribckalb. Then I developed a new heavy-weight launch platform pictured below.Why you might ask? Because the real question is why not.And before you ask, yes it does work. Quite well actually; it can deliver 36,000 kg to Mun orbit and possibly further (we'll see). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueToken Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Today I have launched Jargo Test aswell as Jargo 1 to 3.1 and 2 had quite the encounter with the moon and I really should stop abusing time accel and learn patience. And Jargo 3 had some obit issues and had to abort mission.Tomorrow, I will try and see if Jargo 4 can do what no one else has. Jargo 5 will probably be rescue mission of the crew member of Jargo 4 if I know myself.The deep space rescue mission of the guys stuck in orbit around sun is postponed while Mission Control is busy with more high profile mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueToken Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I launched Jargo I, II and III.Jargo I and II had problem with sudden time acceleration and.. Umm.. They encountered the mun atlest. A bit high speed. Jargo III had orbiting problems and had to abort the mission. The 3 crew of Leviathan II is still stuck in orbit around the sun and Mission Control has postponed any and all rescue operation until enough competence has been acquired for a solar orbit rescue mission. First I gotta get the two stuck in Kerbal orbit down... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cydonian Monk Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 (edited) Today I built these:(OK, this week actually.)The door is inspired somewhat by PD's stock orbiter door. (Finally gave me the solution I couldn't work out on my own.) The rest are just the natural evolution of my spaceplane program. The X-27d (to the right) is... of questionable airworthiness, while the X-28 will take off under its own power. Both have "working" doors, and the capacity for 7 little green dudes. The door assembly on both locks "open," so you can timewarp while docked at your station of choice with the doors open without said doors wandering off. Not much room in the X-28's docking bay, but it's intended more as a crew ferry.Craft Files (100% stock): http://0div0.org/files/X-27d.crafthttp://0div0.org/files/X-28.craftThe action groups are listed in the vehicle descriptions. There are still a few issues, such as random docking port weirdness and the occasional "door clipping through everything" bug. I'll update those craft files as I find fixes. Edited October 7, 2014 by Cydonian Monk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltro Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Fueled Manhood's and fit landers/auxillary craft. Onward to Jool!Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, the most impossibly useless Jool orbit imagineable:I'll not link the events that led up to this, my day spent attempting to get an octogonal heavy lifter working, my ill-advised foray into winged flight, the aborted landing attempt, the rushed construction of the Kerbin Star now that it's first mission will apparently be to rescue my 16 Kerbal Jool expedition. So here's the album. New stuff starts on image 17Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannu Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I made first manned Eve landing first time with 21.1. I went to ocean shore and took a sample and now I climb back to mountain by rover. I saved some videos, maybe I release them soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regex Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Started a new save the other night for small probes and rovers, and generally just messing around. I put a probe on Eve last night and this morning put this rover on Duna: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giggleplex777 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I realized that my swivel-jet still works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brapness Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Random-or not so random-failures seem to giving me grief. The large ASAS module keeps breaking off (seemingly for no reason), causing fuel flow problems in one case and mission hiccups in another. My Kerbalnauts found themselves with their engine stuck throttled up, but I managed to coerce them into a retrograde orbit, fired the abort separatrons and then came within 15m of being hit by my still-accelerating engines.Also tested a Tylo lander a couple of times, never has the term suicide burn been more appropriate. It's a little under-powered, given that the only way I was able to land it was burning retrograde full throttle from 89km up, where a few seconds delay is the difference between landing and hitting the ground at 300m/s. I think I'm going to change the design for my planned grand tour to a probe-rover for Tylo as it hasn't nearly enough fuel to ascend afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 (edited) After 100 kilometers...Javascript is disabled. View full albumI'm pretty close to the SSTV anomaly...I didn't have the sound turned up when I stopped roving, so I might've passed it. Here I was thinking it was a visible anomaly; that's what I get for not looking it up on Youtube first.It is going to make proving I stuck something nearby a bit more challenging than I thought; maybe if I follow it up with a map picture.EDIT: Thought I'd royally screwed it up there for a second, until the addition of "0.21" to the Youtube search revealed that I was indeed in the right place. So I went ahead and deployed my probes; Storax Sedan 7 has accomplished its mission, and sometime in the next few days I'll be sending the Storax Anacostia 7 mission to the same region of Duna. Edited September 3, 2013 by capi3101 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltro Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 (edited) After the Kerbin Star's completion, Jebediah informed mission control that he was having none of this sit-around-and-wait-for-rescue crapAnd plotted a courseClose encounters with IkeWith fuel supplies nearly exhausted, Captain Jebediah utilizes the nearby planet to reduce speedVia aerobraking......into orbit. He then took the last of his fuel and a lander out on the next pass Edited September 2, 2013 by Meltro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadshot462 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Continuing progress on my space station..So far, so good. About 33% done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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