Azimech Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 @KerrMüthat's a very beautiful Daedalus! Mods? That new bearing isn't ready yet, I don't think it will be strong enough for propeller planes in 1.4.x. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeiss Ikon Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 I spent my playing time yesterday and today building a rocket that can send back science from LKO -- with a launch mass under 1 T. In fact, One Ton Tony 4 launches at 977 kg, and with a little care makes a 73x75 Kerbin orbit with 50+ m/s to spare (plenty to deorbit). No solar panels -- just couldn't get to orbit with the extra 5 kg -- but the battery is good for a couple orbits and three data transmissions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azimech Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 I doubt this can be unseen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraktal Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 (edited) Did some experimentation today to see if I can scratchbuild an SSTO without nukes, ramjets or referring to existing designs. Used a Twin Boar for the rocket stage to go easy on the part count and a quartet of perma-wet Panthers for the airbreathing stage, with only one tank of fuel for each Panther to go easy on the weight. After repeatedly failing to stay in orbit due to insufficient dV, on the third attempt I finally succeeded... kinda. Can reach a 70x69 orbit, but only with 45 m/s remaining. Also cannot break the sound barrier during takeoff and can barely reach 7 km altitude on jets only before running out of momentum, but when the Twin Boar lights up... hoo boy. Thing fell apart during the first test flight when I lit the big boy up during level flight at low altitude. Still needs improvement, but it was fun to build nonetheless. Edited April 29, 2018 by Fraktal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeiss Ikon Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 @Fraktal You do know, don't you, that a Twin Boar with an additional 6400 tank can SSTO on its own with 15+ T of payload -- right? Plus probe core, batteries, and enough parachutes and landing legs to recover intact on either land or sea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraktal Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 (edited) I don't, actually. I know the Pathers can't give me much of a running start (at least compared to ramjets), I'm just trying to gain as much altitude as I can before lighting up the Twin Boar to squeeze out as much dV as I can from the latter by losing less to drag. Probably not doing it right, though: jet ascent at 20° to 7-8 km, then light up the Twin Boar, pitch up to 45° and keep burning until apoapse is >70km, then cut the juice and set up a circularization node at apoapse, which usually takes around 1200 m/s and is where I run just slightly short. The Twin Boar is doing just fine, it's the Panthers that are anemic (top out below Mach 0.7 in level flight despite running wet all the time). Edited April 29, 2018 by Fraktal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeiss Ikon Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 (edited) I'd point you to my Twin Boar SSTO album, but it was on Photobucket, and now is gone (I wasn't willing to pay $400/year to let people see my images). I just looked, and I don't seem to have images on my HDD. I'll try to look for the craft file tomorrow. Okay, @Fraktal, I found the craft file in my Dropbox, along with my original Stock Mass Fraction Challenge post for the reusable version.. Not a single photo remains, thanks, Photobucket, but I found the original in my (preserved) 1.2.2 install. Given it's 100% stock, I think it's unlikely it would fail to work in even 1.4.3. Edited May 1, 2018 by Zeiss Ikon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeslaPenguin1 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 (edited) Album gallery/lP8sg6Y will appear when post is submitted Launched a refueling mission to my station for my ssto docked there. Edited April 30, 2018 by TeslaPenguin1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Kan Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 playin with the robotarm from @Angel-125 realy nice to see the seq runnin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KerrMü Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Azimech said: @KerrMüthat's a very beautiful Daedalus! Mods? That new bearing isn't ready yet, I don't think it will be strong enough for propeller planes in 1.4.x. Thanks man No mods on the "Doodadlus", but lots of MH parts and autostruts. I´ll upload it to kerbalX tomorrow. My hangar over there is too empty anyway. That´s a gorgeous - and functional - Excelsior btw. Let me know if you make any progress on those bearings. At the moment I´m using RCS-ball bearings and rings of 8 thermometers around stayputniks. If I find time this week I´ll try the ladders. Haven´t built stock propellers for a while now, but the Duna plane reminded me of how much fun it is to tinker around with those. Have read through the last pages of the turboprop thead today. I think I have to get back into Helicopters soon. Cheers Edited April 30, 2018 by KerrMü typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace in Space Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 (edited) On 4/28/2018 at 2:39 PM, Triop said: I think it is ok to have the option of hiring women, but please don't force it. Now I can't choose a male pilot, do I have the right to feel discriminated ? I am 99.9% sure it's random. I seem to recall one time I wanted to hire any pilot and it was nothing but engineers and scientists all the way down. Random is random. No need to get worked up. Well, as for what I did today, I may have celebrated too soon with regards to the two wagon trains. I started by cleaning up the mess around Eve; got the comm network locked in and assembled Tiger's Eye Station around Gilly. This completed the contract that had been spamming me for so long - just in time for the patch that fixes the spam. At any rate, after all the annoyance it's caused me, seeing it completed and off my log was a sweet relief. Spoiler Halle-freaking-lujah. Of course, the station still isn't operational... Because there's still one piece missing. Remember the lander that got stuck going the wrong way around Eve? Yeah, that craft was never designed to travel large distances once it dropped its travel stage (which was used up in the course of flipping the orbit to go the right way). It just doesn't have the monoprop to capture into Gilly orbit. It was only ever meant to de-orbit, and then go back up to rendezvous with the station. It's not even equipped with an antenna because it's not meant to go very far from the station. So Eridin is stuck, and there are no rescue crafts this time around. I briefly considered using the abandoned test lander already in orbit around Gilly; while I can use it in a pinch, I'd prefer to have an engineer operating it for maximum efficiency, and I don't want to leave Eridin stranded anyway. I also can't use the existing lander as a rescue vehicle because it's subject to the same limitations as the stranded one. The only option is to send a tug on the next launch window to pull her to the station. Incidentally, while I was checking when that would be, I noticed a world's first notification for suborbital spaceflight over Eve, and briefly panicked because I thought the lander was going to crash into the Purple People-Eater. But it had just been triggered during the orbit reversal. Heart attack averted. Quartz station is even worse off. None of the crafts have enough fuel to begin construction. When this happened around Duna, some of the crafts still had fuel, which I was able to reallocate so that the mission could recover itself. Not so here - tanks are just about empty all around, and all the orbits are so off-kilter and wide that my original Plan B of using RCS to move everything into place now seems wildly inadequate. While everything is safely in orbit and not in danger of drifting away, I'm a bit concerned that something's gonna smack into an asteroid - but the chances of that are fairly low... I hope. So now both of these missions need a rescue vehicle sent. I was also planning on launching Ruby 4.2, and decided before I started work on the rescue craft that I should check the planets' positions to get a sense of when my launch windows would open, and lo and behold, Duna was where I wanted, when I wanted. Imagine that. So that mission lifted off, short one kerbal so they can pick up a guy stranded in orbit for a contract. The plan for this one is to not only land on Duna but on Ike as well, because the WFS has apparently decided that landing on Ike and then returning the craft to Kerbin is what I'm going to do next. I originally considered sending Jeb, because he actually hasn't been to Ike yet and always gets the honor of leading the first science landings to new places, but I decided against it and sent some newbie pilot. Partly because there have already been science expeditions by the Onyx Station crew, so it's not really a "first," and partly because I wanted to send him to Dres along with the rescue tug - although now that I think about it that may be a bad idea; I don't know how long the cleanup effort will take or even whether it will work, and I do not want to strand him out there. Not that any of that matters to Jeb. Then I set about building my rescue vehicle. This is just the travel stage and the tug itself - I haven't yet designed an ascent stage, which I have no doubt will be a major pain for such a large craft. But if I've calculated my delta-V correctly, it will be so worth it. On a related note, this game will be the end of me... I haven't done this much math since I took calculus. I've got a notebook on my desk with calculations scrawled all over it. Spoiler I don't actually know if I'm doing it right of course. This is the first time I've tried to calculate delta-v for an asparagus-staged rocket. Edited April 30, 2018 by Ace in Space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Kan Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 anyone knowing what this is? Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tewa Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Looks like a diving platform, but somebody forgot to build a pool! Hopefully Wernher von Kerman will start building one ASAP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RizzoTheRat Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Base jump? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeiss Ikon Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 2 hours ago, Burning Kan said: anyone knowing what this is? If you're going BASE jumping, don't forget that only Kerbals with two or more stars have parachutes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Kan Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 2 hours ago, Tewa said: diving platform good attempt,but ,no 1 hour ago, RizzoTheRat said: Base jump? closer 21 minutes ago, Zeiss Ikon said: If you're going BASE jumping, don't forget that only Kerbals with two or more stars have parachute thx for the tip! Spoiler next round,? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Kan Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 (edited) for those who cant wait or dont like this little guessing game Spoiler *mag boots (without *boots;but works as u can see) game ended no spoiler where needed happy launching BK Edited April 30, 2018 by Burning Kan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Kan Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Kasa Astronaut Candidate test,one of them,jeb are u ready? he feels something is coming 3,2,1 ooh,ooh -wwwoooooaaaaahhh hang around 2 for those who played my little suggest game @Tewa, @RizzoTheRat, @Zeiss Ikon right answer : cool hood figure happy launching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack gamer Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Burning Kan said: Kasa Astronaut Candidate test,one of them,jeb are u ready? happy launching it looks like he's surfing in space lmao Edited April 30, 2018 by jack gamer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKorbinjer Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Finally encountered Jupiter.I visited with all moons, I put it into a parked orbit with a very high eccentricity. No communication problems, though the connection percentage got very close to zero. Hovered between 5 and 30% through my time at jupiter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernel Kraken Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Nothing yet, but when I get home I'll make a few bombers, fly them in formation with the BDAc autopilot/ AI (Which is sadly a better pilot than I am) and shoot them all down with my new defense fighter: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Cbplayer Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 (edited) After weeks I manage to get this thing done Edited May 1, 2018 by Colonel Cbplayer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kek-tus Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 (edited) Wacky stuff It landed like that. Edit: It didnt tip over until i left the ship Edited April 30, 2018 by Kek-tus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 46 minutes ago, Kek-tus said: Wacky stuff What even is all that? Principia? Some other mod? Details, man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaDizzy Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 8 hours ago, Burning Kan said: snip Theres too much metal there lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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