DStaal Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 55 minutes ago, Rocket Witch said: Yes. Most of the panels are damaged too since the original landing was a mess (the reaction wheel module stuck to the back is from the crashed skycrane). I would've used fuel cells in the first place but forewent them since the version of the Bon Voyage mod for KSP 1.3.1 doesn't have fuel cell compatibility. I expect to fly some down to attach to the rover, but I might simply not do the leg to the pole until later, by which time I might have something nuclear. Good to hear you've got a plan. I just wanted to make sure you'd thought about it before you were stuck on the pole with no power... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. engino Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Today I decided to spend another day testing the potential of robotics parts, which has yielded an interesting discovery: by placing linear RCS ports on hinges, I can convert them from regular rotation control and angle them into an ad hoc monopropellant thruster setup. However, as I'm using mods, this phenomenon might not be the case in vanilla KSP, so plan accordingly. Also, I've learned that attaching canards/winglets to alligator hinges allows you to store them out of the way if you build a spaceplane/rocket hybrid and still need some atmospheric control after decoupling the wings/jet engine. Edited April 10, 2020 by mr. engino Extra stuff I did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Starship Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Well still playing around with JNSQ re-imagined quarter scale mod to the KSP solar system and man its alot of fun. Put on a massive pair of old rusty boosters attached to this awesome bdb Mercury - Atlas rocket. HAHA!! I bet I got a few more orbits more than John Glenn did on MA-6! Edited April 10, 2020 by Retro Starship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Kerman Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 I scoured KSC and did research, unlocked 5-meter parts at last, and put my decals to use: Now you can put my decals to use too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 (edited) I recently modified my venerable Zephyr lifter to be partially recoverable. I keep the upper stage of spent Zephyrs in low orbit and refuel/reuse them as recyclable interplanetary boosters. But eventually I have enough in space, and more coming up from the surface. 3 I-beams did the trick. Then I thought... Spoiler ... well, the upper stage of my venerable Titan fuel tanker is really just 9 Zephyrs clumped together. So... Spoiler First test lost 6 engines in retro-heating. Then had the misfortune to land in mountainous territory. Spoiler Second test: Not bad for government work... Spoiler And, while I am here, I did this, imaginatively called Shuttle, for transferring fuel/passengers to nearby spaceplanes that are too limp to dock themselves. I don't know that I am ever going to use it (I fixed my spaceplane), but it also would make a decent emergency lifeboat for e.g. a burning space station... Spoiler Speaking of which, I hunted down and rescued this spaceplane in a sub-orbit. I think this is my first-ever dock in the atmosphere and it was a very wild chase that I will remember always as The Ballet of Lunge and Pivot... Mutual orbits had decayed to Ap 66.7 and Pe 57.6, by the time of capture. That looks like wild jubilation in the spaceplane, doesn't it!? Edited April 11, 2020 by Hotel26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Starship Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 (edited) I always hated those Russian dolls, lol Edited April 11, 2020 by Retro Starship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewie Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Today I started designing my first Duna rover. I also decided to send three ion powered relay satellites so I could have a constant connection to the KSC. Should I focus on using RTGs or solar panels for power generation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoninFrog Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Lewie said: Today I started designing my first Duna rover. I also decided to send three ion powered relay satellites so I could have a constant connection to the KSC. Should I focus on using RTGs or solar panels for power generation? At Duna, solar panels are still more mass efficient than RTG's. They produce less than half the power than they would at Kerbin, but they are still produce four times more electricity for their weight than RTG's. Past Duna, it is better to use RTG's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewie Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Ok thanks! That’ll prove to be helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoninFrog Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 I landed a probe on Minmus today. Not all that exciting. But the exciting part was when I clicked on the little water image next to the altimeter by accident. I had no idea that I could set the altimeter to read from the ground level! Okay, maybe this is common knowledge, but my night landings will be a WHOLE lot easier! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzer1b Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) Pirate fleet is ready for combat, preparing to engage another faction's outpost on asteroid. Sorta put this ragtag group of ships together by overhauling some old/failed vessels from back when. 2 of these, the "Grim Reaper" (right flank) and the "Death's Embrace" (front center) are from 0.25 days (not armored at all, just a fuel tank surrounded by panels) which will likely drop instantly. The 3rd isnt too useless, "Time's Up" (left flank) is actually the 1st ship i purpose built to carry SRMs (it was around the time i came up with the whole ibeam+sepatron weapon in a box attached to a 1.25m hardpoint). Flagship is probably the toughest (bridge view), the "Vengeance" is a failed prototype of the Broadsword series, the mark-3 specifically. Had high hopes for it but it got 1 shotted during trials one too many times by torpedoes that werent even my absolute strongest models, so i dumped the design but made it into a pirate warship and it sorta sucks imo as you constantly need to mess with thrust limiters and move fuel around cause its unstable, half the fuel tanks arent connected to engines, and i somehow ripped off the fuel lines during launch sequence (either attached em wrong or they genuinely broke off which wouldnt be surprising). Theres another look from outside of Vengeance. Its actually fairly evenly matched, these ships outnumber the other side, but they will be facing a Dimension class cruiser which has weapons capable of 1 shotting the 1st 3, and having a good chance of 1 shotting the flagship, albeit its got a single torpedo left from its last engagement, 2 LRMs which are not reliable against anything with armor and difficult to aim due to the probe's inability to aim at target (i like the challenge and always enable the limited probe controls feature), and around half of its PAK-1M rounds left. Itll be the 2nd battle where i test that weapon system if it doesnt get instantly shot off, 1st test was mediocre, it just doesnt do squat against heavy armor plating but will likely 1 shot the weaker junk. Also on side B there is the "Grey Wolf", a very very very old warship i copied from macey dean's series (that 1 that got 1 shotted and didnt do squat), albeit slightly upgraded with extra 4 SRMs since 2 hammer torpedoes is pathetic ammo capacity wise), a generic shuttle i made out of the 1.8m parts (and strapped some basic spark based torps to it), and a Micro-B which is a old copy of macey dean's mosquito class including its original pathetivcally worthless vintage ant based torpedoes (those truly are useless and i sure dont expect them to do squat against any of these ships, maybee end up ramming something with it if the dimension class cruiser gets destroyed and there is nothing left to fight with). Anyways, hopefully ill do the battle sometime next week, will be too busy for KSP the next day or so... Edited April 12, 2020 by panzer1b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleperli Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) So today I recovered my Kerbals from Duna, and I had so many problems on the return trip that I thought I would never make it back! The launch itself went pretty well, and I got that Rendez-vous at the first try! I also docked to the mother ship pretty easily But then, the series of problems begun : First, due to a weird bug, the tracking station behaved like if it was at level 1 ! Being in sandbox, I couldn't do anything but restarting the game, because I couldn't make a maneuver node! I finally managed to solve the problem by launching a part on the launchpad and then switching to the ship without going through the tracking station. Everything went OK during this part of the mission... Because of my fear of high reentry speeds with a lot of kerbals in an aerodynamically unstable reentry pod, I decided to use the 2 km/s of Dv left to insert myself in a low Kerbin orbit. Then I had a little heart attack when I realized that I didn't HAVE ANY PARACHUTES (I'm a terrible rocket builder)! So I made a little rescue pod with a lot of chutes, and also a big heat shield to be sure that I won't burn up... And I launched it to R&V with the mother ship... Then on the map I realized that the mother ship WAS ORBITING THE OTHER WAY! (I'm a terrible mission planner) So I relaunched and made a rendez-vous with the ship and docked to it, FINALLY! (I also needed to use the ship for docking because the pod didn't have any propulsion system and the docking port was facing towards the second stage) And then I deorbited and... exploded due to the wobbling caused by the heat shield... So, in these cases, F9! Aaaaannd.. there we go! That was a... particular... first Duna mission, but everybody returned home safely! Edited April 12, 2020 by Cleperli added an emoji Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendrack Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) My obsession hobby of creating a Buran in KSP continues, I have settled with a configuration that is doable. Since a full ISS destroys my computer, I only made the russian segments for this sandbox save. Next on the list is the Federazija. Edited April 12, 2020 by hendrack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHunter Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Today, I've landed on Ansia: Spikey! Next up: Jade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) Blister Orbital Delivery: Flight, we have a problem... Flight Control: Roger, Blister, state the nature of your problem... Blister: running into some heavy traffic up here, Flight. Think we're gonna be late for our re-entry window... Flight: Uh, OK, Blister... Flight: Blister, we're looking at the telemetry... TURN BACK! YOU ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!! Nyuk nyuk. Call this a krakpot idea, but I'm putting a tourist space station into counter-orbit at 802 km. Quite spectacular, really. Have had to re-assign altitude of at least one opposing craft that was crossing that altitude periodically. "EAST is least, WEST is best." Edited April 12, 2020 by Hotel26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Starship Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Well about to start up KSP, no family over for Easter and to put up this meme! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewie Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 I’m wrapping up my Duna mission planning. Decided on setting up a commsat network around Duna with three probes, just so i can have a relay network for my rover fir a constant connection to the KSC. I’m going to later use the sats for relays for the Jool system and Eeloo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PT Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Continuing from last time... I installed ScanSat mod to make biome-specific missions easier. And while testing dual-sat delivery system I played around with KS3P: And some more design, deliver and resupply in meantime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortimer Kerman Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 I made a space elevator. Very laggy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHunter Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 I've began exploration of Jade of Maar Gateway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaDizzy Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 On 4/10/2020 at 12:57 PM, Retro Starship said: Well still playing around with JNSQ re-imagined quarter scale mod to the KSP solar system and man its alot of fun. Put on a massive pair of old rusty boosters attached to this awesome bdb Mercury - Atlas rocket. HAHA!! I bet I got a few more orbits more than John Glenn did on MA-6! Why aren't you using the revamped UA120s? The rust signals they will be removed in the next update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catonthekbd Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Newish career game, the first 4 tech tree nodes open, all buildings level 1, apart for Astronaut at lvl2 Sent Jeb to orbit to farm some EVA science. Found I had enough Dv to do a Mun flyby. Thought it would be interesting challenge, as no patched conics, or manoever nodes yet. Did a sucessful flyby at low altitude, intending to use gravity assist to drop me back into Kerbin atmosphere. (you can tell where this is going already, can't you ... ) The resulting Ap on exit from Mun SOI looked a little high - somewhere above minmus !, and as I got near it I got a message that I had left Kerbin SOI ! Now how to get Jeb home safely with 500 m/s Dv and none of my usual tools available on the map screen .... Got there in the end, thanks to a fluke aerobrake at *just* inside heat threshold , in a mission took over a year Jeb's dinner was ruined - he forgot to turn the oven off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PT Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) Continuing from last time... I managed to gather everything together and 3rd Munar mission has begun. In style. All pieces of unwieldy cargo have been delivered in brutal way, then slowly docked. IGNITION! Once in high Munar orbit new space telescope and two scansat/relays have been shed And BigSky descended to low orbit where it left its RocketPack And landed on Mun Contracted outpost have been skycraned and after short hop two rovers have been released. TODO: Find some Mun rocks! Catch some wild Kerbs in Munar orbit Return that horde back to Kerbin Prepare for Minmus mission! BigSky has been added to https://kerbalx.com/hangars/96594 however new version must follow as serious design errors have been made, it sure needs more space in underbelly and its "OMS" terrier is too weak to be of use in early phases of landing. Edited April 13, 2020 by PT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadOaks Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 13 hours ago, hendrack said: My obsession hobby of creating a Buran in KSP continues, I have settled with a configuration that is doable. Since a full ISS destroys my computer, I only made the russian segments for this sandbox save. Next on the list is the Federazija. Just curious, you're calling it a Buran but the aft section is much closer to the American shuttle's than the Buran's. Is there a reason for that? Regardless, awesome work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendrack Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, BadOaks said: Just curious, you're calling it a Buran but the aft section is much closer to the American shuttle's than the Buran's. Is there a reason for that? Regardless, awesome work! You are quite right, its more Buran inspired, because of the soviet launcher and the Buran texture of the SSTU shuttle. I've tried to build all the various Buran variants below and I am quite fond of the OC-120 with its jet engines, but for now I have not worked out a practical way in KSP. The latest variant on the right works best for me right now with the SSTU shuttle, but I'll try some Mk3 varitant too, I think there are quite a few good part mods for it. Two years ago when I played KSP there was one part mod which let you change the design of the engine cluster, I think it was Cormorant but I haven't fiddled with it yet. Edited April 13, 2020 by hendrack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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