Liowen Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 I have been messing around with a portable science gathering station to go to Mun and Minmus, this should be able to clear out my tech tree in 2 missions or less depending on how it goes. From there I am thinking I may try to increase the difficulty by trying something I have seen another person do, but I am a bit frightened by the reentry part of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Following a mishap where my Kerbin lander had hit nose-down without parachutes, I tested what happens if it hits nose-up without parachutes. Bob got the job of crash test dummy.Testing demonstrated the impact is non-survivable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treveli Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 The other day, after landing on the last Mun biome and finishing my science there (or at least as much of it as I'll worry about right now) I wondered if it would be useful to launch a single mission to Minmus that could hit every biome there in one trip. Rather than a single ship for all the biomes, I did something more like an interplanetary mission, with a command ship and numerous landers docked to it. And so I built the Minmus Discovery.Not the biggest or complex design in KSP history, but for me it's the closest I've yet built to a major spaceship. I decided to wait until tomorrow before building and launching the landers it'll carry, since I realallized after the five or six times I had to restart the Discovery's two sub-assembly launches because I screwed up on rather simple mistakes that I've been awake for 24 hours. I'm unnecessarily endangering kerbal lives at this point. Sleep now, landers in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pthigrivi Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Some equipment en route to Jool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dispatcher Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Worked on an orbital probe: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DunaRocketeer Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 I crossbred a Delta IV Heavy and a Falcon IX Heavy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalfunctionM1Ke Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Turns out, Pol doesn't like to be visited http://www.twitch.tv/malfunctionm1ke/c/3914939 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickupsticks Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Rescue missions are the order of the day. After a recent unfortunate incident an empty ship was left in munar orbit. Today I sent two kerbals to rendezvous and the braver of the pair got into his EVA suit for a quick 300 metre jaunt to board it and take control.Next stop is picking up a stranded kerbal and then it's time to go back home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HafCoJoe Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Pardon the stupid screen size I was running my un-edited resolution copy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L3GO Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Taking out the kinks in my Challenger Space Shuttle. Just need to figure out a good way to get into orbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingpig Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 tried to build a better catapult but didn't work out so well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brapness Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Launched 6 kerbals and four rovers to the moon as two missions. The first landed near the equator and despite crashing one of its rovers, it retrieved science from 3 different biomes.The second mission landed near the south pole with a prototype base which I had hoped had enough power to support 3 Kerbals throughout the Munar night (I'm using TAC life support). The mission hit disaster though when Jebediah was killed in a rover crash and the base module ran out of power during the night, resulting in an emergency evacuation back to Kerbin for the remaining 2 kerbals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lammatt Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 built and flew a shuttle capable of bringing a lander to Mun and return Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Not much done today. I finished filling up the Typhon 2 transfer stage (finally) through a Barn Burner mission. Not "reusable", but it delivered a lot more fuel at once than the Auk VIII. Might fly the Auk again when economy comes into play in a few versions. I'll be flying four more Barn Burner missions to the Typhon; those will be fuel payload to send to Eve along with a return stage for my Eve lander. My Eve lander is nearing completion; I just need to add ladders for Jeb at this point and it'll be ready to go. Most of the elements are in place at this point for me to make the attempt. Will keep y'all posted on how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Learnt that I didn't have the right abort actions set on my Mun rocket, and that having a Kerbal in the lander on ascent is a bad idea. Poor Jeb...Now got one mission in Munar orbit and another en-route. Chances I forget to move a Kerbal into the lander before decoupling it? High. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jouni Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 In my career mode game without science experiments, I did my second Mun landing, this time with three kerbals.The lander was a bit silly, as I did't have lander cans or multi-kerbal pods unlocked. There should have been enough fuel to do a second Minmus landing as well, but I was flying carelessly, so I only managed to do a flyby. Still, I got enough science points to unlock docking ports and hitchhikers, so I could build the first interplanetary ship in that game.Next stop: Gilly.Meanwhile in my main sandbox game, I delivered the final habitation module to the Laythe base, and refueled the cargo ship for its return trip to Kerbin.Despite the problems with the first module, I managed to land the remaining three modules close to each other.Now I just need an inspiration for rovers and other base modules, before I can send the colonists there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBigD60 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Guys, I've been waiting now for about a half hour for these two things to stop wobbling and actually dock. Ran out of RCS fuel, too, mind you.I suspect it will take another hour, considering the ship on the right is the small one at a measly 128 tonsI couldn't get a shot that showed the whole station on the left without losing sight of the ship on the right due to how large it is and how much I'd need to zoom out.I hope 100 tons of EL Ore gets me plenty of rocket parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astropapi1 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Is SAS disabled on the other ship? That can be a party killer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBigD60 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I usually disable it on both ships.Have I been doing it wrong all this time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xacktar Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Got to hang out with Rowsdower, Scott Manley and more down by GDC today! Had a lot of fun and learned quite a bit as well. (Gratz to KSP for picking up the Audience Award as well! Well deserved!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBigD60 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Dude, you're lucky. WI is a far cry from CA.Wht is GDC, btw? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dispatcher Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Game Developers Conference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBigD60 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 ah, that makes sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalfunctionM1Ke Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Did some droptests for Science on Jool yesterday with a abandoned Laythe-Lander. But there was nothing left after deadly reentry happened but turns out the Landercan is a perfect Steamcooker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regex Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I did some SCIENCE on Eve and Gilly, a long-range EVA on Gilly, and then tested a new "single-Mainsail" crew shuttle which, I must say, looks awesome.Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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