What did you do in KSP1 today?

[Slam_Jones]

- Well I can imagine you might find some time for ksp since the gta5 download is so extremly slow.

Many people report they spend more than 5 days downloading the 60GB installation file.

Yeah, 60 gigs is pretty big, but I started the download last night, and it finished this morning

Got a chance to play for a few minutes before work, and so far am pretty impressed.

First-person view isn't exactly what I imagined, and I'll have to do some fiddling to (hopefully) get my steering wheel to work with it, but overall I'm pleased

[mangekyou-sama]

With the transfer window to Eve fast approaching, I decided to start working on the Wayfarer Program. Primary objectives are to land a rover on Eve, put kerbonauts on Eve orbit EVA to conduct experiments. Secondary (optional) objective is to land on Gilly. To achieve this, there will be an orbital assembly of the Wayfarer. Components include a tri(or quad)-NERVA engine unit, supply module, onboard science lab, crew quarters, manned command pod and the rover+skycrane assembly. This might take a lot of planning. After all, it's my first time to do this kind of mission Should this mission be a success, I'll use the same schematics for Duna.

[cantab]

Took the NASA quad engine cluster up to the target speed and altitude, ran the test (with an actual, albeit brief, firing - no "testing" an engine with no fuel for me!).

Then nailed the landing on the first try, really didn't think I could do that

Then KSP broke my save I have backups, but will probably have to redo that flight and landing.

[waterlubber]

A quick Mun mission. Just got the game running again and built a small craft and took a trip to the Mun!

[sumrex]

I have started an exercise in frustration. A potentially good follow-on ssto still giving me problems as well as it's redesigned successor. It's a good thing Kerbals don't have a lot of hair it would be gone by now.

A test angelfire recovers an ancient return vehicle forgotten about.

The angelfire successor being built and put through the paces. (Gotta figure out why roll inputs are causing excessive nose up and down problems.) Kinda thinking the lifting surfaces may be stalling in the roll dragging the nose up or down. Probably acting like those old nerf boomerangs we had as kids due to a similar shape, but I'll leave the conjecture to competent aerodynamic peeps.

Edited April 15, 2015 by sumrex

[delder92663]

Very nice!

[LordFerret]

Last night, after a long Ion burn, I brought my Moho rover back home. I still have some anomalies to visit on Mun, my next project, along with finishing my Munar base ... that's next.

[Slam_Jones]

GTA isn't running as smoothly as I'd like, so instead, I made "art".

[EladDv]

"Art"

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[smjjames]

I've decided that despite bearing the lag coming from 600+ parts, that my Kerbinside fuel refinery (for the orbital shipyard that I have in orbit of Kerbin) is too slow combined with the >1% karbonite concentration to make the lag worth it, so, I made this fuel depot with orbital logistics on it.

Which is kind of cheaty, I know. I did consider building a heavylifter to deliver fuel up to the orbital shipyard and while getting over 1k tons up there isn't the hard part, I've done lots of heavy lifters, the hard part will be getting the RCS control balanced and strong enough to control the mass. I just decided to go and change the design of that fuel refinery first anyway.

[Technical Ben]

I survived interstellar space (with lots of Krackens and bugs!) and figured out how to finely course correct, and thanks to some wonderful forum posts able to gravity assist to just the right place and...

... I'm finally there. Orbiting Kaiser, with craft and station moduals undocked and realigned for rotational gravity in a station mode. The craft will "fold" back up if/when I'm next doing some aero breaking. But for now the Kerbals can relax and plan a visit to a moon or two and pick up some spare parts from the much smaller B craft. The entire thing is in a really elliptical orbit, so I can send shuttles off gravity assisted flybys of the moons and hopefully put them in the right place easily. Once finished it can then use the same trick to fly out to another planet. In a circular orbit it would use a lot more DV to do that. But it's all new to me.

[Whackjob]

Early in the AM I did the first video in a potention youtube series, tonight I'm recording another.

[Kowgan]

GTA isn't running as smoothly as I'd like, so instead, I made "art".

http://i.imgur.com/SRTxdyU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CnPPtLn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1oCDkju.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HpQpqIi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jlnrkyl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NX8zvqK.jpg

That reminds me of this:

Edited April 15, 2015 by Kowgan

[Fizwalker]

I've been experimenting with an A6M2 inspired plane in my career mode (using AJE & FAR) and learning about asymetrical stalls and flaps... first sims have not been peomising

[mangekyou-sama]

My Wayfarer Mk1 Space Vehicle has just been successfully assembled in orbit.

At least 3 more launches are expected. One would be a maintenance/reinforcement mission, second would be a systems testing mission. The 3rd flight to the Wayfarer would bring the final roster of kerbonauts to board the ship to Duna and back.

Transfer to Jool is also fast approaching. My engineers are hard at work in developing a multi-probe delivery system. Design would be highly similar to the Wayfarer.

[DunaRocketeer]

I made an twin ion powered spacecraft that will hopefully be able to do asteroid rendezvous and Gilly landing missions.

[loch.ness]

I completed my Minmas Campfire outpost on the Lesser Flats:

That was two base building contracts. I also completed a few others fattening my current budget to about 1.3 million roots which I'm hoping is just enough for a Constellation style Duna mission (window in 12 kerbin days).

To do this weekend: Design lander Return Vehical

Try to figure out what my Snacks budget will be for the mission (planned interplanetary ship has 1150 snacks capacity)

Design 5 kerbal duna outpost (contract - mission will only involve the big 3)

Design Duna Buggies

Figure out how to pack all of the above into 3-4 launches, under budget, and with enough snacks (the mod) for the whole trip.

[Kowgan]

No pics because no pics. But I've installed NEAR, and now I've gotta find a way to fix my shuttle orbiter aerodynamics, once again.

[Slam_Jones]

[TimePeriod]

*Insert Russian accent*

Some people say that their rockets/spaceplanes suffer from 'spontaneous disassembly' maybe, maybe..

I have yet to see rocket which burned the air, without moving.

Also...

Over engineered?

Edited April 16, 2015 by TimePeriod

[Richy teh space man]

Exploring Tekto, with Sarnus rising on the horizon:

[Vladthemad]

Well, I didn't do it *today*, but I couldn't find the original thread that gave me the idea. Someone had posted a kerbal walking around with a parachute on his back that he had grabbed with KAS. Someone asked if the parachute would work, everyone said no it wouldn't, or that the parachute would tear off his back during reentry, or that it would snap off or you couldn't deploy it...so you should probably see where this is going.....

Right clicked the chute and selected deploy....but I don't' want to spoil the ending

Also tested out a little surface probe I built recently, although thanks to using remote tech it's deployment to Duna didn't go exactly as planned...

So instead I sent a manned....keralled?...mission, along with a little crawler rover....

...and planted a flag. Glory to Arstotzka!

[Slam_Jones]

[cyberpawn]

WEEEE!!!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=426660698

[stibbons]

Built my first atmospheric plane that works fairly well in FAR.

It's ugly, but has decent range and I can usually land it on the second or third try. This afternoon it's taken me to all of the monoliths on Kerbin, and I'll probably try for a couple other anomalies while waiting for trans-munar missions.