Spatzimaus Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Today I went on vacation. No KSP for the next week and a half. I'm already going through withdrawal symptoms, like obsessively following these boards. Well, to be fair I did that before anyway, but you get the point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooks Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 nating wait for mods to work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRV Ron Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Built a cheap SSTO orbiting probe from a description in the Challange forum. It worked even better as described after removing duplicate parts and balancing the remaining on the Stayputnik. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seret Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Today I found out my SSTO does not have the right coupler to hook to a shielded one, it has the jr. one and it is too small . All that time to get it to meet up with the space station for nothing.Make an adaptor. Jr docking port > little truss > medium docking port. I tend to keep docking adaptors at my stations just in case of hiccups like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Built a cheap SSTO orbiting probe from a description in the Challange forum. It worked even better as described after removing duplicate parts and balancing the remaining on the Stayputnik.You're welcome.Ranger Able and Ranger Fox are headed to their respective targets now and I've got a Sandstone probe in orbit of Duna. Tried building said probe SRV Ron mentioned in his post and it worked as advertised (his changes made it cheaper unless I'm mistaken - that was the point of the challenge).Tried to launch that same probe again with a Rapier engine just for lulz. I think I like the Rapier but KER doesn't give delta-V info for it, which is kinda annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcidSludge Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I docked the first "tanker/supply"-ship as a training exercise on my Experimental Space Station, which is basically a fuel tank, a big RCS-System, solar arrays and some docking ports at the moment. And, I found out how to transfer fuel, RCS-Propellant and even electricity between the vessels (latter is of course pointless for a space station which is self-powered, but it is good to know that you CAN transfer electricity if needed).Next step for the Space Station is to bring some Kerbals to the ESS, aaand exercising docking much much more, my rendesvouz & docking-style is a little crude at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liowen Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Make an adaptor. Jr docking port > little truss > medium docking port. I tend to keep docking adaptors at my stations just in case of hiccups like this.I would but it would may hit the ground on launch, easier to just switch out the docking port. The station right now isn't done either this was a test run, but I found an issue with the SSTO design by doing this as well....win win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargate525 Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I landed on Moho for the first time!...Jeddred is not my brightest kerbonaut.And I've discovered that the external seats could really do with some seat belts. Bobfred doesn't look terribly happy with his current predicament. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenchant Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Designed a one-kerbal Duna lander. Here's its ascent stage undergoing engine testing on the pad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingon Admiral Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 My SSTO shenanigans continued, witht he Phoenix-1, a HTOVWL (Horizontal Take-Off, Vertical Water-Landing) spacecraft, which was able to put my first spaceplane-payload into orbit, the Kalliope microsat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giggleplex777 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I dropped off a 3.6 ton payload with my Space Shuttle today (a new record!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I did my first dock! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Cookie Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Put a kethane sat into munar orbit. The scan isn't over yet, but there are some very juicy deposits there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liowen Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Today I redid some of the K.I.S.S. (Kerbin Interstellar Snack Station) and put it into orbit on my test save. I equipped it with a tug system onto it after getting it into orbit, in the event I want to take a version of this to another planet. My next thing I want to add to it is my "tour bus", once I have modified it some to make it a bit more docking friendly. Mostly this will be used to store Kerbals in orbit so when a mission returns I do not have to go back down and recover the vessel. It will have small lander cans that I am dubbing return pods to send those who have ventured forth to return to the surface. I am hoping to use this on the save I use to film for Youtube in order to get rid of the launching of ships, as watching the same launch gets kind of boring even for me LOL.Here is the "tour bus" on Minmus: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGCJerry Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Finally "updated" to .23.Installed FAR. I also pulled off the best spaceplane landing I ever done. I was experimenting and had 3 kerbals onboard. Made it to 51K, and flamed out. (not enough oxidizer for rapier engines). ended up going into a spin, but I "recovered" enough where the spaceplane was falling rear first. turned off SAS/RCS and manually tried to recover the craft. Ended up hitting the ocean at 46m/sec rear first with a few engines on intake air mode, and saving all 3 kerbals. I'm done with KSP for the night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zemor Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I downloaded the demo today and toyed around with different rocket designs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maccollo Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Went to all the planets and moon and landed on them in less than 4 years, using one launch.And then I took the recorded footage and made it into a video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whackjob Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I went hunting for prey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tw1 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Mysterious business...Strange omen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liowen Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Was trying to sleep, but decided to try and get my small SSTO to the space station. I took off from KSC and got into orbit with no trouble, then I sent a tug to go and push the SSTO to the station.....this is where the problems started. First came the cross feed draining all the fuel from the SSTO, though there wasn't much left, and me forgetting to shut off the SSTO's engines. I think a different tug design is needed for interplanetary trips, also any way to kill cross feed without clicking on the docking port? Second bad thing to happen was when I went in for docking, I had the wrong port on the tug selected nearly causing the SSTO to rip off one of the solar panels. So now Bill, Bob, and Jeb are all having snack, although Jeb is stuck in the SSTO since the station does not have room right now for three Kerbals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levelord Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I figured out a way to get my bike over the mountains. I now use this to jump islands on Laythe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vat Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 (edited) Finally rescued two crews who were victims of underfueled, overambitious missions with my first proper asparagus rocket attempt. Still got to go and get Bill, who's floating just outside Kerbin's SOI. Edited December 21, 2013 by Vat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Cookie Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I figured out a way to get my bike over the mountains. I now use this to jump islands on Laythe.-Snip-That is pretty cool. Could we get the craft file for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overfloater Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 (edited) Today for the 1st time I made a good aeroplane & for the 1st time I've landed one! Thanks to the new update, we can now see how emptying fuel tanks shift weight centre, and any fuel tank can be used as a plane tank by emptying the oxidizer. One might think that, even if you empty the oxidizer from the rocket tank, it still might be too heavy, but no! not at all! The relative weight is about the same as the plane fuselages!So here's my Freakishly AWESOME aeroplane :Javascript is disabled. View full album Edited December 21, 2013 by Overfloater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geschosskopf Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Great stuff Lovelord and Overfloater. Just want I needed to start the day with . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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