Dnaha Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Conducted a Shuttle Mission with Columbia. Also started messing with Scatterer and got these nice shots using FASA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwnstarr Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 (edited) Just getting back into KSP after a few months away. I tested a prototype of a 4-5 kerbal lander I'd like to put on Duna someday, just took it to Minmus and back to see how it holds up to high speed reentry. Needs farkles like ladders, retractable solar panels, and an ISRU plant eventually. Looks like a flying pig! http://imgur.com/a/JpLct Edited December 15, 2015 by Pwnstarr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehco Corrallo Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I did it! I finally did it! Did what? Put a rocket into orbit? Yes! That's not terribly impressive. Around Jool! Oh. *Mind blows* The Jool system is seriously cool. AND IT'S MY FIRST TIME THERE! WITH ONLY ONE REDESIGN OF THE ROCKET! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francois424 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 24 minutes ago, Ehco Corrallo said: I did it! I finally did it! Did what? Put a rocket into orbit? Yes! That's not terribly impressive. Around Jool! Oh. *Mind blows* The Jool system is seriously cool. AND IT'S MY FIRST TIME THERE! WITH ONLY ONE REDESIGN OF THE ROCKET! Congratulations, I remember my first time at Jool like it was yesterday (a probe in-between Laythe and Val)... Always exiting the first time around =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DunaRocketeer Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I tweaked my standard Mun lander to be more suited to Minmus: The low gravity made the rover useless, so the rover bay was retasked to carry a complete suite of science instruments. That, plus the surface samples and reports yeilded of 6000 science in one mission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tw1 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 (edited) I think I made Bill seasick. Valentina and Jeb enjoy boating, Bill and Bob, not so much. Kerbals are a useful way of judging which way is vertical when you are on a slope. Team checking out what might be an eroded sinkhole of some sort. You've got an got yourself into a bit of a predicament, haven't you? Edited December 15, 2015 by Tw1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulletv1 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I tried to launch a probe to moho as a window appeared. I didn't even get a rendezvous. After some careful calculations I've come to the conclusion and need bigger boosters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegrim Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 11 hours ago, katateochi said: About a week ago I posted a pic of a glider I made, but it used Jet engines to get it into the sky. They were then jettisoned but still, didn't feel authentic, so yesterday I decided to try and do it properly and tow the glider behind a small prop-plane using a KAS winch. Let's just say there were some initial problems..... Amazingly Jeb (piloting the prop-plane) survived that crash! actually he survived all the crashes, while Val and Bob in the glider needed resurrecting after nearly every crash. It seems that sitting in a command chair, in an open top cockpit without a helmet on is much safer than being in an enclosed cockpit! Can you upload this glider? I've got a cunning plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worir4 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I have just deleted my KSP folder. I am starting fresh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetski Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Today I built a crew shuttle in Interstellar, thermal turbojet to get out of atmosphere then switching to a rocket nozzle to orbit, all using microwave power via an orbital antimatter power station and a relay network. Returned my scientists from Arin and Laythe. New Horizons is an amazing mod. Interstellar is good as well, but the parts bog down my computer after a while - I find myself destroying ships to improve framerate, hard to maintain infrastructure. Microwave power transmission is amazing though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarrisonChisholm Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 13 hours ago, katateochi said: About a week ago I posted a pic of a glider I made, but it used Jet engines to get it into the sky. They were then jettisoned but still, didn't feel authentic, so yesterday I decided to try and do it properly and tow the glider behind a small prop-plane using a KAS winch. ... It took a lot of tweaking to get the plane capable of towing the glider and then many failed attempts (two airborne things joined together with a KAS line make for really great crashes!) before it was a survivable experience. But finally today I've got the process locked down (mostly). I'll try to make a vid of this is I have time. I have to say I am *so* impressed at this. Bravo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFarnsworth Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 One redesign later, and Santa's sleigh can make it into orbit with plenty of fuel to spare. ... and if you're really good or lucky you can even get it back from orbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venusgate Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 32 minutes ago, McFarnsworth said: One redesign later, and Santa's sleigh can make it into orbit with plenty of fuel to spare. ... and if you're really good or lucky you can even get it back from orbit. On Rapier, on Terrior, on Skipper, and Rhino! XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourfa Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I've been playing with compact manned landers/hoppers that fit completely inside Mk3 cargo bays: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guz Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 watching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulletv1 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Took on a couple of rescue contracts and some science hopping. So built a 3 Kerbal Lander and sent Val to the rescue. Only issue was i struggled getting into orbit. So use the normal fix of more boosters. She now has a new friend. Val then went on to do Bobs usual job. She found his job nice and easy Rescued the other kerbal in high minmus orbit orbiting the opposite direction and then back to kerbin for a nice big pay cheque and loads of science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Spock Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 (edited) On 12/12/2015, 2:17:38, McFarnsworth said: Docking this thing together took entirely too long. Time to go mine some Dresteroids and plonk a base down on Dres. @McFarnsworth and @Francois424, where do you get those beautiful torus/ring parts from? Are they part of a mod? Edited December 15, 2015 by Mister Spock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFarnsworth Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 13 minutes ago, Mister Spock said: @McFarnsworth and @Francois424, where do you get those beautiful torus/ring parts from? Are they part of a mod? Mine's stock, just mk1 liquid fuel tanks and mk1 airplane passenger modules. And a whole lot of fiddling to get them into a ring shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Spock Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Wow, nice. Did you build the torus in the VAB, or in space, using something like Kerbal Attachment System? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantab Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Working on my VTOL spaceplane/shuttle screenshot284 by cantab314, on Flickr Looking reasonable so far. Uses eight Panthers with the afterburners for VTOL, and with care the transition to forward flight can be made but it is easy to botch up. I'm hoping to improve control at low speeds by adding Vernors. The altitude is good but the top speed of ~960 m/s is a bit underwhelming. I've yet to decide on what rockets to use, I may opt for a pair of rapiers so I also get some more jet power. Biggest problem is the thing is a right handful in roll above around Mach 1.6, I'll need to look at improving that, probably bigger tailfins and maybe increase the wing sweep a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarrisonChisholm Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Last night I tested a from scratch 4-person Capsule/Module made from clipping (none more than 50%, but its the only way to "design your own ___") stock low-tier parts, which worked wonderfully, however at the point in the Munar fly-by where I had planned to do an EVA to test egress, all 4 of them looked so terrified that I scrubbed it. Who says mission control doesn't listen to their astronauts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerbol Macrosystems Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 58 minutes ago, GarrisonChisholm said: all 4 of them looked so terrified that I scrubbed it. Mission control in lieu of the EVA we have elected to run the brown goo experiment. We're going to call it a day and come home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnaha Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I got a lot of images from my Apollo and Soyuz rendezvous. I'm most proud that I was able to do it all manually (I usually make MechJeb handle rendezvouses). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KerBlammo Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Just for fun I decided to turn my SSTO Rocket Pane into a shuttle like thing with the addition of a big booster. Launched from a standing start This got it into orbit with ~1500 m/s to spare.. So I decided to orbit the Mun with it On the way home Of course the re-entry speed was much higher than usual. I picked a high initial Pe to limit the heating, but it still lost the nose cone on the first pass, de-orbited on the next pass through the atmosphere and landed safely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosirrbro Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 (edited) Nuked the poop out of minmus with North Kerbin Dynamics. Sure it was a waste of time, but the scale of a tsar mushroom cloud on such a tiny moon is FANTASTIC! Edited December 16, 2015 by Red Iron Crown Language, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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