Triop Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 (edited) First flight in 2019. Edited January 1, 2019 by Triop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernDevo Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 (edited) WOOOT!!!!! First! Time!! EVER!!! I lucked out - I put down in the Lowlands near the lip of the Eastern Canyon. I have four distinct biomes within driving distance, and the terrain is easily flat enough to allow Duna Hustle to land. Part of the approach was practice for the Mothership's landing; I initially entered with a Pe of 20 kms - which turned out to be FAR too deep. I intended to enter a 60K orbit but wound up landing; fortunately in a good spot. After undocking her Science modules and connecting them in orbit, Duna Hustle will enter higher and take her time lowering into the thin atmosphere. The goal is to land close to Rover Max once the ground team has collected good science. Upon collecting the ground team and their science, Duna Hustle will boost into orbit, collect her Science Modules and grind Science until the return window to Kerbin opens. So far this mission is going flawlessly. Well; ONE flaw: Rover Max Duna was set up to be pushed into Duna's atmosphere by her descent booster - a "Rhino" with a Kerbodyne 3600; FAR larger than needed but designed to maneuver the full ship if necessary. Below it, an inflatable heat shield. Problem: No Radial Engines! Gah! I had to eject the heat shield and take the atmospheric burn on the engine bell - no problem at all; but not what I wanted. I remembered radial boosters on Duna Hustle; just not on the Rover's descent pod. Edited December 31, 2018 by NorthernDevo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernDevo Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 (edited) Duna Hustle approaches aerobrake at Duna. ...Perfect. (and after only 3 F9's! giggle) (Just...wow. Valentina views her first Duna Sunrise.) Of course, I forgot to check the time and landed at night but hey! It worked! LOL Edited January 1, 2019 by NorthernDevo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDJ Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Triop said: First flight in 2019. Last flight of 2018 (over here at least) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 (edited) Guests of the day : SU-15 and SU-7. Edited January 1, 2019 by Triop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Crash Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 (edited) Exploration of Duna/Ike continues. I posted a few days ago about my first manned mission to Duna and landing a rover. I'd heard of Bon Voyage after this mission launched and have been using it on Minmus and the Mun, but the Duna rover didn't have one. I got bored driving, so I ended up hyperediting a control unit to the guys on the ground and the onsite engineer installed it. Since then the rover team has hit 5 biomes over a several hundred kilometers with the last being on the south polar region. The have their sites set on a anomaly on the pole they should reach sometime tomorrow. Elsewhere around Duna a team took one of the landers out to clean experiments on the initial Duna survey satellite. It should have enough dV to relocate to Ike. It has a lander that I ended up not deploying on Duna that hopefully can do a safe landing on Ike. It's the only vessel I have around Duna that has resource scanners and the big DMagic experiments. The service team got back to my mothership with less than 50dV left. The Kerbals left in orbit were feeling cooped up, so did a quick trip out for a first landing on Ike. Bill got the honor of planting the flag on Ike. Edited January 1, 2019 by Tonka Crash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 (edited) So Bob painted our car frame today, we shouldn't have made the disecting frog joke I guess . . . It's Kermit green, just like me... Edited January 1, 2019 by Triop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadArc Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 On 7/17/2018 at 1:46 AM, qromodynmc said: I kinda finalized my draken project. It was a wonky project since it's quite impossible to get it right on wings and air intakes but im still proud of it. Impressive! I wish I could build something big like that but my mac can't handle the parts. Whats the maneuverability like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 "That's no Mun...." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARS Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 (edited) First flight (or dive?) in 2019. A small underwater ROV called Remora (помеха) is exploring Kerbin's underwater seabed Command are you seeing this? looks like we got an underwater seabed depression over here Look at the size of it! The contrasting underwater plains and a massive, jagged underwater crevices... Feels like we're going into another void Looks like the crevices arcs upon the horizon (It's faint, but you can see it in this picture far away on the horizon) Edited January 1, 2019 by ARS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 2 minutes ago, ARS said: I love it, I like the small and simple stuff. It looks a bit like a microphone . . . Nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork13 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 A few pipes bursted at my space center. And well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARS Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 4 minutes ago, Clockwork13 said: A few pipes bursted at my space center. And well... Can I use this screenshot? I got something popped up in my mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 7 minutes ago, Clockwork13 said: A few pipes bursted at my space center. And well... It wasn't a pipe, it is from global warming from all these rockets you keep sending into space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavscout74 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 (edited) Took some tourists & a trainee scientist to Minmus in a Lightning II spaceplane, and actually used my Minmus station for a change. Landing on Minmus for experience & profit Leaving Minmus, heading for home Second of three aerobraking passes. Just about the only parts NOT glowing red are the airbrakes. I should've gone for a fourth pass, rather than just three I used too much fuel with the NERV bring the AP down - and too close to KSC. I still overshot, then didn't have quite enough fuel to fly back to KSC. Here I am gliding the last few kilometers Safely landed. I cut the chutes and ended up with just barely enough residual speed to get up on the runway (at ~10 m/s) to get a full recovery. What a way to ring in the new year!! And HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!!! Edited January 1, 2019 by Cavscout74 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork13 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 3 hours ago, ARS said: Can I use this screenshot? I got something popped up in my mind Lol, sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 (edited) Trident: Weird proportions but a) I'm trapped in stock parts, and b) it flies sooooo nicely... It ought to go a bit faster than it does, but it doesn't. (Not yet, anyway.) Edited January 1, 2019 by Hotel26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARS Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 41 minutes ago, Clockwork13 said: Lol, sure Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 (edited) Have just finished the nuptials with Esprit: (click the screenshot and use right arrow for a slide show) Spoiler I am very excited and happy about this one! Edited January 1, 2019 by Hotel26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 3 minutes ago, Hotel26 said: Have just finished the nuptials with Esprit: (click the screenshot and use right arrow for a slide show) Reveal hidden contents I am very excited and happy about this one! Nice! Reminds me of Concorde...shame we can’t do the droop-snoot in KSP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARS Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Jeb's new toy: underwater bike Plankton Possibly the smalest underwater vehicle I ever built. It's as if he detached one of the engine assembly of an aircraft, bolt the pilot seat on it and sail away as if it wasn't a big deal whenever he's bored Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djr5899 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 "Hey guys, let's make sure the Flat-Kerbin Society never, EVER sees this photo!" Somewhere on the south Pole of Minmus, Jeb realizes his new Terraforming Ray works "a little too good." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDJ Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 My first flight of 2019. I updated some parts on my twin-turboprop aircraft and took it out for a spin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 On 12/31/2018 at 10:52 AM, NorthernDevo said: How long has it been that we could actually warp and bend parts due to damage? I've never seen this before! I mean yes, they flex; that's normal but that front left wheel mount is totally warped now! That’s not technically supposed to happen, but weird things happen in KSP when you bang stuff against rocks at the bleeding edge of their breaking point, and the results can be... unpredictable. Its a feature, not a bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernDevo Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 22 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: That’s not technically supposed to happen, but weird things happen in KSP when you bang stuff against rocks at the bleeding edge of their breaking point, and the results can be... unpredictable. Its a feature, not a bug. ROFL! Which pretty much sums up Kerbal engineering in a nutshell. I was actually pretty pleased with it - the hammering the Rover took should have bent it badly and it did - I've just never seen that before. EDIT: Oops, while I was typing this my orbital fueller kinda smacked into the ship it was supposed to refuel....(whistles) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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