zekes Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I finished my Tiger 1! I spent a good 10-14 hours working on it, so I'm happy it turned out well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellblazer Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Enjoying RSS. Needed the challenge to make it fun again.Sent up three sections of my new station. 750km orbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpy Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Done an LKO rescue mission.Whipped up an SSTO plane to bring a satellite to LKO, a really half-assed job to see if I still had it, an ugly thing with ten Whips, one Mainsail and a medium MK3 cargo bay, an ugly unkerbed drone. It took maybe 2 or 3 reverts before I reached some 30 degrees inclination orbit, deployed the satellite, then the plane fell apart during reentry. Some 200,000 down the drain, the thing was so ugly and handled so poorly I didn't really regret.Took up a contract of "fetch Ore from Minmus", built a rather neat lander, took one of newbie pilots, one room for crew to fetch the rescuee from Minmus, who was stranded on the Duna Mission vessel, and would visit Duna if not returned to Kerbin for the contract. Picked her up on orbit, then landed at an ore spot. Deployed the drills, the gigantors. The pilot went to gather some science from nearby flats. She was just planting her flag when an explosion was heard. When she turned around, there was just a bunch of parts where the lander used to be. Quickload...I'd swear I quicksaved on landing. Nope. Last quicksave was from yesterday. A whole day down the drain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop149 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I killed my first Kerbal! Raty Kerman was to be rescued from orbit, parachutes were duely added to her pod and it was deorbited. Heading for splash down just east of KSC at 7 m/s.Anything less than 10 is fine right.....right?Nope, not if they're in a science lab, crash tolerance = 6 m/s.....SIX!Oh well lesson learned, sorry Raty....I was rescuing you cos I liked your name! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percyPrune Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 In this craft, the "jet fuel" tanks are in front of the "rocket fuel" tanks.nothing special in the fuel connections, except fuel lines from the side tanks to the centre so the rocket can draw on them. They only ended up like that because I was fiddling around with the quantity of jet fuel and it was easier to add the tanks to the front of the stack!The Edie Hornet has one small Mk2 jet tank in the centre spine but is mostly LF+oxidiser.Any spare fuel +oxidiser is used for trimming the COM during re-entry. I pump everything into the tail tank so she sits nose up without autostab. in the upper atmosphere for braking, then pump a little oxidiser (and fuel, but only if I haven't enough oxidiser) into the forward tank as she starts to fly at 30-40 km. When the nose starts to drop I stop pumping, engage autostab. and fly home.If I have a long homeward flight (usually because I have misjudged the re-entry point), burning jet fuel from the tail means that the COM will always move forward and I won't get caught out by a gradual shift backwards.Having been caught out by COM shift early on, I am a little obsessive with building in trim tanks and pumping fuel to and fro in flight. Perhaps I should put it down as my 'quirk' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiew Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I delivered a full orange tank (as a test payload) to orbit with a Mk3 SSTO! http://i.imgur.com/Wwe68vG.png Does the sharp-edged back end not get penalised by nuAero? IIRC, it'll have less drag if you use an adapter down to 2.5m, then a 4x1.25 off that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Wow; makes me want a "steampunk" mod for KSP.Professor Phineas Kerbenstein's wonderous vertical propulsion emporiumalso Firespitter for your First World War biplane needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loerelau Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Started mining operations on Ike! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuky Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Today for the first time in my year and something career at KSP I have tried to go for Eve...and I failed. Rocket launched perfectly, it went to interplanetary space...and then ran out of power just before correction burn was due. Only pic I have is from before launch, for some reason others weren't savedI don't have a great record for missions outside of Kerbin SOI. 2/2 failed missions to Moho, 1/3 failed to Duna and now 1/1 failed to Eve...all unmanned though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Science Bucket Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 My first rescue!... that lead to Valentina and Halton dying in a fiery crash when I realized I had put a on drogue chute on instead of a real one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf83 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Going back to Mun to Recover someones craft for Contract and upgrade the Mun Station with a Science Module. Upon Launch and in the middle of my transfer orbit realized my grabber probe didn't have chutes, so, grabber probe became my next satellite in equatorial orbit, since it meets all parameters. And the reasoning behind the Mission title should be self explanatory once you see my pictures. Oh once more thing, right as I had just completed creating my orbit around Mun from the transfer I got a screen with vertical grey bars crap, at least my payload had already been grabbed and saved at that point. Restart computer with power button and got caught up to where crash or whatever it was that happened, happened, then align orbit with Mun Station and lower orbit for rendezvous, save and go to bed.Lets grab this payload and go...OOOOOOOHHHHHH, Munar Eclipse, in space... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capi3101 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Finally back home after an extended stay at my in-laws, with their vastly superior KSP-playing box. Trying to think about what all was accomplished...The Vulture flight to refuel Munport was a relative success; she delivered her payload, flew back to New Horizons to offload her excess fuel and then landed successfully at the KSC Runway. The actual landing was rough - one I probably wouldn't have been able to pull out on my home box, but was able to do at my in-laws. The mission did leave New Horizons a bit short on fuel so I launched another Vulture mission to refuel the station. Turned out to be a good thing I did that...See, because shortly after the Vulture arrived at Mun, my Mun Buggy finally arrived at the Minmusport space station. Jeb and the crew of Free Bird 7, docked to the station at the time, transferred to the Buggy for a ground science excursion and flag-planting mission. That went off without a hitch; the Buggy returned to Minmusport, the science collected was processed in the lab (bringing the station's data buffer to full) and then loaded aboard Free Bird for the journey back to Kerbin. Owing to the presence of Lagercie and Albert (a pair of tourists) aboard Minmusport in need of transport back to Kerbin, Kacella was left on the station with Diissa and Bob (who were running the science lab). Thus prepared, Free Bird made the trek back to Kerbin. Free Bird's aerobreaking went well, but she ran out of gas after making a stable circularization burn around Kerbin while aligning planes for docking at New Horizons (I've long ago decided to keep Free Bird in space until I can get the opportunity to swap out the craft's landing gears for ones that are more substantial, so the crew was headed back there to swap for an updated Raven 7 design for the re-entry). Fortunately, I had that Vulture up to resupply the station; change of mission - the Vulture was sent to re-supply Free Bird instead. The resupply went well and Free Bird finally made it back to New Horizons, transferred the crew and science to the waiting Raven, and landed successfully back at KSC. Made a tonne of bux for the varying missions - two of the returning Free Bird crew were Minmus rescue contracts worth about √450,000 between them (plus they came back after having orbited Kerbin and planted flags on Minmus - two new crewmen automatically at two stars upon their return). The money and science earned allowed me to finally unlock Mk3 parts and upgrade the R&D facility to Level 3, while leaving me with around √650000. Another √800k will give me a fully upgraded KSC facility...Meanwhile, that Vulture is still in orbit - she burned up her remaining fuel trying to deorbit. Forgot to re-set its control point to its probe core after docking. So, facepalm there.Also was able to combine a Kerbin rescue and tourist contract for √60k between them; the landing didn't go smoothly. Insufficient chutes and landing in the mountains west of KSC. Lost most of the craft, so the profit margin was not as high as I'd hoped for those two missions. Still, √10k is better than nothing.I've still got a crew en route to Minmus due to arrive soon for flag planting; they'll haul everybody still at Minmus back home with them. Got plans to send three crew members to Mun to plant flags as well; I've got a new tourist contract to Minmus at this point, and long term plans to send most of the KSC staff on a trip into Kerbol's orbit to get them their respective three-star ratings. I'm thinking of updating the Vulture design for that one; it really is a pretty solid design overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annallia Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I finally gave the visual enhancements mod a shot... Have to say I rather like the clouds, so does Val (after she had to bail on her plane).Though I am a little disturbed that she didn't seem to enjoy having her chute deploy...And in other news, Bill, Bob, and Jeb crashed... Again. Bill never seemed so happy to see the ground.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bioman222 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Just like all the cool kids, I did an Apollo 11 replica.Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jouni Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 (edited) I built a strange plane.It actually behaved better than half of my serious planes.Edit: Department of Silly Planes also produced a passenger spaceplane.In addition to the standard economy class cabin, the plane also has two first class seats. Edited July 21, 2015 by Jouni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slam_Jones Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 (edited) After a long (LONG) sojourn through the wonderful world of GTA, I've started returning to KSP.Finally built my first two post-1.0 SSTO spaceplanes.The first is a Mk2, using 4 Turbojets and 2 "Swivels" to carry 2 crew and up to 8 tourists to LKO. I call it the "Luxor"The second is a Mk3 (and the first successful Mk3 SSTO I've ever made), using something like 16 Turbojets, 1 "Skipper," and 4 "Swivels" to carry 4 crew and up to 32 tourists to LKO. I call it "El Gigante"For a while, the Mk3 had two SRBs strapped to the side for a little extra boost between LF and LFO phases, but it ended up working better without them. And cheaper, too.No pics yet, but maybe soon. Edited July 21, 2015 by Slam_Jones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jett_Quasar Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Tested a new design....JR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bioman222 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Tested a new design....http://i.imgur.com/v51YPk6.pngJRDo I spy a Correllian Corvette? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jett_Quasar Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 (edited) Do I spy a Correllian Corvette?I can see where you might get that, but actually the design is loosly based on the Battle Cruiser from StarCraft. And yes it is designed to do the grand tour.JR Edited July 21, 2015 by Jolly_Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Does the sharp-edged back end not get penalised by nuAero? IIRC, it'll have less drag if you use an adapter down to 2.5m, then a 4x1.25 off that I'm sure it does, but like i said, the design is a work-in-progress. I'm just jazzed I got it to work at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekes Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I made some new tanks, right at the same time my friend also made the same tanks! Here's my KV-2 next to his. Guess which one's mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koyoti Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I killed my first Kerbal! This! My WIERD (Wildly Inefficient and expensive rocket development) Science division lost 5 of it's rising stars today when Lemley Kerman, until recently best known as the unluckiest Kerbal alive, accidentally dropped his packed lunch onto the emergency chute deploy button whilst the re-entry capsule carrying himself and four of his fellow Kerbals was still in the upper atmosphere. Once the smudges left behind by the 5 brave Kerbonauts (Lemley, Suke, Theodrin, Edgun and Heidi) are identified then the few remaining atoms will be returned to the families involved in the hope that they will be used to discourage further applicants to the program, until such time as there is a greater than 3% chance of survival at launch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarium Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Decided to do some Mun base/mining/ore-delivery contracts, without leaving anything up there (the Kerbals are needed elsewhere). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianwubby Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Passed 1000 hours in-game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacGamer04 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Finished building and uploaded the Zarya module of the ISS, you can find it here: http://kerbalx.com/MacGamer04 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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