GloriousWater Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Did a poor Kerbal's Jool-5 mission in career, with a Laythe "flyby" and Bop/Pol landings. (Jool 2.5?)Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDelacroix Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Parked my large station transports around Eeloo anticipating that one day we will find that it is actually a moon of another gas giant.I also have 4 smaller stations in transit to Jool to park one around each moon. I started a space plane on its way but burned too much fuel and it will not be able to correct to hit the Joolian system. I'll need to send a refueler if I can catch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xacktar Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I finally finished up the next video in my main series. Along the way I blew up the runway, threw a party, and killed at least thirty Kerbals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogoob Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Designed a new atmospheric descender probe. Upon testing realized that it had way too little in terms of power generation capability. Will redesign or more likely resurrect my previous design. Still need a name for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MockKnizzle Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Well I didn't exactly design this today, but I flew a demonstration mission to take pictures! It's a SpaceShipTwo inspired design, but capable of fully orbital flight.Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Disaster Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Open wide.Flight testing larger parts, thought I'd visit the polar base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedwardson Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Starting over with a new save, really going from scratch doing tests and all that.Building up with suborbital tests, two attempted sat launches (One was launched into a helocentric orbit, the other in a slowly decaying orbit.Started maned program - two suborbital tests, and just had my first orbit. After using Mecjeb it fun on how bad altitude control is on manual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodion Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Well I didn't exactly design this today, but I flew a demonstration mission to take pictures! It's a SpaceShipTwo inspired design, but capable of fully orbital flight.That's one of the neatest SS2-derived designs i've seen in KSP, nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFerret Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 It's not so much what I did today, but more of what I wasn't able to do... damn Clamp-o-tron Sr. not wanting to undock.I've been building up in orbit, launching modules which ultimately will dock together - my Ion ship "Algernon". I should have stuck with my original plan, specific stages one after another. But I strayed from plan and launched one of the later segments up early. After docking, bringing up the segment which was supposed to go before it, I couldn't get anything to undock so I could reassemble as intended. Grrrrr. I tried everything; Switching back and forth between ships, exiting back to the Space Center, exiting out of the game, etc. Nada. I just recently had read about others having problems with such too. I'm not wanting to exit out of the game to edit and fiddle with config or persist files - cheating in my book. So I had no alternative but to deorbit the whole damn thing and start over again. I hope they come up with a patch for this, and soon.Chalking it up as more 'docking practice'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jouni Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Searching for useful gravity assists for Tylo insertion felt too much like work, so I decided to do something less involved for a while.It turns out that the Poodle is viable as a first stage engine in the 6.4x Kerbol System. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbootie Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Built this thing and test drove it around town.After a couple variations and some tweaking i sent it to the Mun.And after a couple attempts managed to land the top heavy sucker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 With the Jool mission wrapped up and my 6.4x tech tree nearly complete, today I launched the core module of my second-generation, long-term space station.Korolev Cross. Still love this.Staging and fairing separation:This launch finally hit the limit for my Colossus booster. The final few minutes were very dicey, with the SS core burning its tiny engines at nearly 45* as it hit ApA and started to drop back into the atmosphere.The final circularization burn was clear on the other side of the planet. Did make for a pretty pic tho With the core module finally in a stable orbit, the crew launched to meet it 23 hours later in my tried-&-true Manned Utility Launch (aka Mule).A rarity for a MUL launch, the interstage contained no cargo. Only veteran Elfurt and rookies Newmund & Billy-Bobgas KermanThe crew docked at the aft port, which will be reserved for cargo ships in the future, to leave room for the first lab module (when they'll actually have something to do). They then settled in for their 6-month tour.Newmund needed a nice long space shower after several hours couped up in a very small pod with with a guy with a name like Billy-BobGas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L3GO Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 If anyone followed my post on landing on the barge. The 2 stages can now be reused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragosnat Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Well taking a brake from my second Mun Rover after driving 76 km's heading to the southwest or was it southeast crater:Basicly start at the east creater top where the base, flag, and over is then I worked my way south to the edge where I go both polar and polar lowland science for what ever reason. Not caring as it fits Kerbal logic somehow. Then moved west where my only active/capable of moving rover is currently parked some x km away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Othuyeg Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I went totally over the top with cheatsy interstellar stuff...Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow88 Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I refined an old 1-man Munar ship to add a little more functionality and to tweak the aesthetics. Quite pleased with the improvements, even though they are only small tweaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwhip Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Some home expansion... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekes Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Just a test launch - the real thing is almost done. I can't wait to see this bird fly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunaran Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 The proverbial boys back at the lab, powered by coffee so strong they had to eat it with a knife and fork, assembled an improved rescue scooter for Dilfrod and Munrick. Since I wasn't sure what had thrown KER off on the previous vessel, I used LFO and a 48-7S, and KAS was not involved. KER claimed 2400m/s, and much simulation was performed to ensure that it wasn't lying this time. It wasn't.Buzz hired some rookie and took him up in the Airhog One to deploy it. By this point, Dilfrod and Munrick had been huddled around a tiny heater in the darkness on the Mun eating cold snacks for two and a half days.Release was nominal, the engine burn was nominal, and the Munar encounter was forecast to be nominal as well. Everything was nominal. Couldn't get more nominal if you tried. 860m/s was used for TMI, we'll be liberal and say 300m/s for capture and 800m/s for landing, which adds up to 1960m/s, leaving, uh ... oh. 440m/s for liftoff. balls.this is what you get when you rush and don't let your boys back at the lab get any decent sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GloriousWater Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Made my first SSTO in NEAR (imaginatively named SSTO Mk1) although it can't do much once it actually gets in orbit. Also, I raised my graphics settings very slightly! Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kozak Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I made a Harrier!Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Took Tjprime's Mun lander for a spin. Landed badly at night and tipped over, but got the ship back upright fairly easily. Then flew over on the jetpack to visit one of the Mun's anomalies, having previously spotted it on the landing approach. Killed Bill by crashing when flying back Though the lander carries five, playing on my TAC save meant I could only send one Kerbal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedwardson Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Launched my first sat into KEO. I have plenty of DeltaV to keep stationkeeping for the life of the saved game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Built a tailsitter.It takes off fine, transitions to forward flight, and flies like a dream. (In FAR, with aero failures off.) Transitioning back to vertical flight is OK but I do gain more height than I'd like, and the controlled vertical descent is fine if tricky to fly.The problem is it just won't land intact! I touch down nice and slow, 6 m/s or so, and nothing explodes right away but it simply falls apart. I strutted the tailplane and fin to the main fuel tank and reinforced the engines and wings but it still crumbles like a dry sandcastle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miro Beero Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 I went totally over the top with cheatsy interstellar stuff...http://imgur.com/a/todQoHow did you get interstellar working with .25? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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