Adamczuk Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 My 2 Elcano ground based prototypes keep on falling apart the moment I say go! I know the general rule is "when in doubt, Strut about", but adding more struts seems to make no difference! They keep failing spectacularly... maybe it's time to finally go back to the drawing board? I always thought with KSP in general, I had to go big or go home, but now... maybe a smaller lighter vehicle might do a better job?But then I want to take everyone along on this world cruise and sightseeing tour! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percyPrune Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 The Great polar Adventure has begun. An Argosy freighter has been kitted out as a flying lab plus accommodation, stores and KAS equipment (just in case). Very close to maximum take off weight, not helped by having to carry oxidiser for the fuel cells (I could do with Overlander's loco generator as a mod!).Seen here having just done the mid-flight fuel re-balance. I have put the autopilot back on and a modest amount of timewarp so Camvis & Mitby can relax up for a while:"Twist... ...Twist... ...Twist... ...Bust!"Landed around 500m from the pole, avoiding the creases in the terrain (so as not to enrage the Kraken).They have opened the sunroof but won't deploy the solar panels until the scientists arrive. Camvis unloads the Snowrover.It's a tight fit so Mitby is giving guidance:"Right hand down a bit..."The next day Val flew the scientists out in the Biz Jet with Bill, who is going to be second engineer. Camvis will go back to base so he can fly out the test plane later:"Welcome to your home for the next two weeks. Please do not walk on the grass..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annallia Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I started a new career (yesterday). Today I sent a survey probe to Mun, then sent a lander down to scout for nice flat bits to set up base. Unfortunately Bill didn't find anywhere suitable where he was able to get to, will either bribe Val to move the lander or wait till Jeb finishes packing his snacks and delivers the rover. Bill just realized he has to walk the 3.5km home.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Not much accomplished last night. Launched a space station core to Kerbin orbit for a contract; the core will ultimately be sent to Minmus to set up research efforts out there. Melfort snuck aboard while I wasn't looking, so at this point I have no available KSC ground staff whatsoever. Hasn't happened in quite some time.Tried landing a Ballista 7 cargo plane I'd launched a while back. Crap got hot and exploded, and then the whole plane disintegrated. I still have yet to retrieve one of those intact.Tried launching another Ballista, this one to fulfill a Mun probe contract. That one got hot and exploded on launch, first time that's happened. That plane designed flew a lot better before I stuck canards up front - I'ma thinking those are going to go before I try to fly one again.Meantime, I've got a lot of stuff in transit, a fair amount of it (no fewer that three flights) headed to Minmus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enkiel Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 attempt #2 at Eve trip was a success. I used the Eve atmosphere to slow myself down, which was scary, even at 66 km...I also lifted my Mars station, to land it on Ike. That was quite a challenge, since the station doesnt have much thrust, and i had to jettison half its ore to get in orbit, and use that ore to make some fuel once in orbit to reach ike... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landwalker Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 As Step 2 of my "Explore the Mun" contract (Achieve Orbitâ€â€having already recovered data from space during a previous flyby, and not yet having landed or recovered surface data), I threw Bob Kerman out there. Might have overengineered the ship just a tad, with the result that I had more fuel than I knew what to do with. So after getting into a basic orbit, I reoriented into a 55-58km polar orbit and just went wild on EVA reports. Got near-space EVA reports for all 15 biomes, then sent Bob home. (Had enough fuel to add a Minmus flyby, easily, but I'm holding out on that until I get an "Explore Minmus" contract, because I'm greedy with my contracts like that.) Naturally managed to land at Kerbin during night-time, because that seems to be the only time I ever manage to land anything.Total Science collection from the flight of Werecat II: Approximately 600. Good job, Bob!Have a couple of contracts to address before the next munar flight: Need to get a satellite up around Kerbin, do some land surveys, and do a rendezvous-rescue. By the time that's done, hopefully we'll be able to step onto the Mun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plume & Akakak Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Spent a few nights & days on Duna.See detailed post here.and click this big Bob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fchurca Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 After making an unmanned miner and pumping some ore from Minmus and the Mün for contracts, I took a contract to put a space station in solar orbit. Realised I had a few km/s to spare and that I was in a Jool transfer window, so I thought I might as well swing it that way. The first trysimulation of the miner crashed into Minmus because I was too busy calculating a suicide burn Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justidutch Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I blew up. Twice. In re-entry. Around Kerbin. Because of ship over-heating. It's a thing, people.SysEx Refueling ship #1SysEx Refueling ship #2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son_of_Al Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Downloaded RSS! Having a blast finding out how hard getting to space and doing anything meaningful can be with just a little bit more realism Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NecroBones Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Worked on my big lander legs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmashingKirby148 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Made my first successful SSTO! What's funny is this is my second time, and my first was a fail, even though it was alot smaller, and super basic. XD- - - Updated - - -It doesn't do well in re-entry though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annallia Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Finally got my rover down to Mun so Bill doesn't have to walk everywhere... And shortly after found a nice flat bit for me to start building my Mun colony so the flag is stuck down as a marker, now just time to start building the colony... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triop Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 (edited) Today, I forgot (again) to stage my chutes before take off . . .I hope I'm not the first to do that O, claimed the Northpole for us Dutchies aswel Edited June 20, 2015 by Triop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annallia Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Today, I forgot (again) to stage my chutes before take off . . .*snip*I hope I'm not the first to do that Nope certainly not the first, wont be the last either. At least you didn't do what I usually do on my spaceplanes. When coming in for a landing if I am off course I will turn on my jet engines but rather than use the action group I tend to think I have to stage... and then there goes my chute.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goddess Bhavani Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 A hoax Munar mission never intended to go to the Mun actually went to the Mun. Naturally there are huge problems. No thrusters for guidance. Not enough fuel to escape the Mun's gravity. Our unlikely heroine, a first-time space pilot, decides to use the falling descent module as a springboard to achieve Munar orbit using suit thrusters.And uses said suit thrusters to align orbital planes with and intercept a micro-shuttle diverted to make one and only one pass near her, from its initial 800km flyby mission with barely enough fuel to make the necessary plane changes and then to burn out of Munar SOI.Full disclosure here:http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/126010-My-Space-Program-is-in-utter-disarray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_G Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 (edited) Back to spaceplanes again. Small ones... and today i built my most successful small SSTO so far in 1.0.3. Still not the performance of that i had back in .90, but getting better. This little dude made it to a solid circular 110 km orbit with 300 dV in vacuum and even more in atmosphere to spare. Reentry went quite nice, it only experienced a little jitter when flying mostly empty in low altitudes below 2000 m. I managed a clean touchdown on the runway, but somehow got off and broke a wing - good to have drogue chutes to slow down... but hey... i went to space today.Jeb flooring the pedals during ascend110 km orbit establishedClean powered approach to the runwayLost a wing, but Jeb is home safely. Time to continue tweaking this design. I dont like the clipped capsule, a smaller inline cockpit would really suit it more appropriate... lets see... Edited June 20, 2015 by Frank_G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragosnat Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Played around a lot last night. Made a plane that had a stable altitude of around 13.5 km and ose not need a lot of course correction to keep it there going at a decent 175 m/s with a small payload: Lands very nice too on Kerbin. Not sure about Lythe:As you can see. The whole point was to deliever a rover to Kerbin's Desert to test out the first surface ore detector. Before trying it out on Mün and Minmus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrooperCooper Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 The KSA continued with its first manned Duna missions. Click here to see more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_G Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Getting closer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellblazer Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 (edited) Going to build a giant space dock 500KM above Kerbin today. Tug in place. Section 1 and 2 arriving shortly. Update - Section 1 launchedDocked with ST-100Cockpit view Edited June 20, 2015 by hellblazer Update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkool702 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Today I've been chipping away at a "mega mission" which involves a number of contracts on Eve, Gilly, Duna, Ike and Bop. Thanks to the ISRU converter I'm able to do it all with one ship! All the contracts are set to net my space program about 9 million cash, in addition to science and reputation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikki Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Used my BLOCK fOUR b "SWAN" to put up my second Jool Nuclear Tug (Bot ship), T-130 days until launchwindowThen rendezvous with previously lifted Fuel pod, witch will later be used as stationcore around Laythe, or maybe Jool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy teh space man Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Preparing my mission to Moho: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikki Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 (edited) While putting up the last module of my Jool mission... uhhhuuuhhh... and now i know why this happened: look at the navball heading, the Swan was guided from the wrong unit (inside the fairing, attached backwards)... should have seen it... uhhhh.Good thing no Kerbals inside, would have being dissapointed of me ... Edited June 21, 2015 by Mikki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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