Alchemist Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 (edited) Landing a spaceplane from keostationary orbit It got very hot Missed KSC a bit, but still perfect Edited January 17, 2016 by Alchemist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceception Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I landed on the Mun for the first time without having to use RCS (Except for fine-tuning)! Check my twitter for pics (I don't have imgur): https://twitter.com/SPACEISAWESOME1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magimix Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I've not had nearly as much time to play KSP as I'd like. I'd also been stuck in a strange rut, where my progress into the tech-tree had ground to a halt. I'd done a number of unmanned Mun survey missions, and heaps (heaps!) of tourist missions, but it seemed like I wasn't progressing. Anyway, after remembering that the Admin building was a thing, set up some policy to turn that easy tourist-run rep into science (while kicking myself that I didn't do it ages ago), and also got round to doing an unmanned Minmus shot. That got me enough science to nab the "Fuel Systems" tech node, so *finally* I have access to fuel ducts. I then felt more confident about trying for a manned (Kerballed? ) Mun mission... Manned-Mun-Survey-1 was a rickety monster, but it got brave Jebediah to the Mun and back, with oodles of good science to boot. I'd like to send some probes to Minmus, but until I have a power option other than batteries, I don't think it is feasible (not ready to try it with a Kerbal-piloted vehicle just yet). Still, being able to get Kerbals to the Mun and back opens up some good options in the meantime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Space Cowboy Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSg54o-HcaM&feature=youtu.be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regex Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Not sure what happened. I made a bone-stock install (parts and physics, at least) to check out the Vector and ended up with a shuttle yesterday. One thing led to another and ... well ... I made a new station. Four launches so far, two with the shuttle (which is flying great even though the RCS layout is bad). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maccollo Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 (edited) Did the stock moon landing challenge in RSS. The landing attempt got pretty dangerous.https://youtu.be/kuoHpPy4J3Y?t=3m49s Edited January 17, 2016 by maccollo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tfin Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I landed on the Mun, and had so much extra fuel that I did it without dropping the Kerbin>Mun transfer stage. This is my first Mun landing since career mode, I think, because I was astonished at how easy it was with Thompfel holding retrograde the whole way down. I did have to abort the first site, which was on the edge of The Canyon, but that was just a matter of angling up and giving it a quick burst. On the way back now, and I've realized I left the heat shield off. My lander engines really can't handle Kerbin gravity... glad I have the fuel to circularize in LKO. I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiber9 Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Today I flew around the space center and collected science while doing some eva contracts. Then I did my first ever twitch stream(!) while flying a probe on a free-return trajectory around the mun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francois424 Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) Spent last night watching that new survival game "Tharsis" where a crew with a damaged ship tried to make it to mars... felt inspired. I was having issues with powering the 3x 2,5m Ion engines (total of 192 Kn of thrust with 4200 ISP really rocks)... However, A friend of mine who's a physicist in RL and was watching me play blurted out : "Why the F[bleeeep!]k aren't you using a Nuclear Reactor ?" Told him stock KSP did not have one and he said: "Well, Mod one, this is ridiculous"... It was easier than I thought. He provided efficiency vs regular LOX and weight quotes as I was adding Uranium as a resource and setting the physics stuff in the appropriate files... Turns out I have about 11k Delta-V and it's not because of me running out of Uranium, lol ! So with our immediate power crisis remedied, we managed orbit and set a Rendez-vous with Duna... Enjoy ! Ship doing departure burn for Duna : Ship has arrived at Duna and now performing capture burn: We made it... Unfortunately, 15m/s landing proved too hard for the ship (4 parachute + 4 Drogue chutes)... but all the modules survived ! A flag was planted to celebrate. Edited January 18, 2016 by Francois424 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Space Cowboy Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) Edited January 18, 2016 by Space Cowboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Just now, Space Cowboy said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-XhbUqF90&feature=youtu.be Hit enter. It'll embed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francois424 Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 12 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-XhbUqF90&feature=youtu.be Looks like something out of Space 1999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Dwarf Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Today I bid farewell to KSP for a couple of months. Spring semester is a bitter pill to swallow, knowing that I won't get to blow anything up until I get home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Space Cowboy Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) 31 minutes ago, Francois424 said: Looks like something out of Space 1999 Edited January 18, 2016 by Space Cowboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuansenhama Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 A little story. Today, my Grandparents came over. My grandfather was very excited to show me a ~10 minute computer animation showing the launch, transfer and deployment of the Spirit rover on mars. I'm going into computer graphics and animation in college right now, and I guess he figured that I'd be interested in it. (My grandfather is a huge space nut. Twice a week he emails me about all the new discoveries happening in space. You should have seen him when New Horizons did its flyby, he never let me hear the end of that.) Usually my grandfather likes to talk with my parents for his visit, but I pulled him aside and asked him if he'd be interested in showing something, and I booted up my install of KSP, and created a fresh sandbox save. I gave him a shortish explanation of how the game is basically do-it-yourself space travel. Some things are a bit silly. The scales are a little wonky. Kerbals are only about a meter tall, and the planets are all 1/10th scale. I told him we could build a spaceship and go wherever we want. He said 'Saturn'. (Well there is no Saturn... I opened up the Tracking station and showed him Snarus from OPM. I had to do a little more explaining of how all the game's planets are sort of parodies or replicas of the real solar system planets, and even more explaining to tell him that normally, the last planet in the game is Jool, and that the outer planets is a mod.) So I took him to the VAB. I asked him if we should send a probe or send a manned (kerballed) mission. He said it should be manned. As I put the mothership together, I explained how some of the different parts worked, and how some were from mods and others from the stock game. At one point he asked me how I knew what the functions of all the parts were. I explained to him how I normally played in a career save, with money and defined missions, and in career, I unlocked parts slowly, a few at a time. So I had a chance to look at each part, try it out one by one and see what it did. I continued by explaining that when other people add their rocket parts to the game, and put the files out there for you to add to yours, they usually do a pretty good job of explaining what each part does. I also showed him the tool-tips that give the statistics on the parts, such as the mass, ISP of engines and heat tolerance. We got into a long discussion about how different engines might use different fuel types, and electric charge storage and generation. The names are strangely generic. I told him that Mono-propellant might be Hydrogen Peroxide or C02 gas. He then decided to mention that the first Ion powered spacecraft was already in service. He told me that the real life Ion engine relies on a very high voltage and low current to ionize the xenon gas. I showed him the Ion engine in game, and explained how, though efficient, it didn't produce a lot of thrust and used a lot of power. I sent up the Mothership. Nothing went wrong on the launch. I think it was at this point that my dad and grandmother came and tried to steal my grandpa back, but he was much more interested in the 'Snarus 1' launch than talking with them about who won the football game last night. We decided we would send a second ship, a mining lander the mothership. I smacked together a pretty simple mining lander in the VAB, and threw a scanning probe on top of it. Then I launched that. But nobody's perfect and my second stage was wayyyy underpowered, and we went suborbital. I reverted back to the VAB and swapped out the second stage with a much more powerful engine. He asked me if I was cheating. Even more explaining. This is a sandbox game, I can do whatever I want. Unlimted money and time. I told him how, if I wanted to, I could make a giant rocket, blow it up, and nobody would care. The second launch of our lander was much more successful. Unfortunatley, as I was making my approach to dock, he realized he was late to an appointment and somehow or other, we had killed a good three hours in the game. So after docking, I closed the save. My grandfather comes over every other weekend, so in two weeks we will (hopefully) depart for Snarus. That's also why I didn't get to update Uuuokozetistan space program today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 7 minutes ago, Kuansenhama said: A little story. Today, my Grandparents came over. My grandfather was very excited to show me a ~10 minute computer animation showing the launch, transfer and deployment of the Spirit rover on mars. I'm going into computer graphics and animation in college right now, and I guess he figured that I'd be interested in it. (My grandfather is a huge space nut. Twice a week he emails me about all the new discoveries happening in space. You should have seen him when New Horizons did its flyby, he never let me hear the end of that.) <SNIPPED A LOT> That's awesome. I thinks it's neat how you can bond in sometimes unforeseen ways. That's one of the great things about this game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScarM Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Components of a mobile Mun station being refueled and prepared before descent to the surface. I'll be using a refuel rover to locate a level surface before orbiting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 11 minutes ago, Kuansenhama said: A little story. [...] Perhaps little, but great. Thanks for sharing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DunaRocketeer Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I'm getting more and more impressed by how spacex do things, so I'm currently making boosters inspired by the falcon 9 1st stage. Currently favouring a tweakscaled 5m diameter core with 7 mainsails clustered at the base. The landings are... entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RizzoTheRat Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 5 hours ago, Kuansenhama said: A little story. Lovely story. Great way to spend time with your granddad. Sounds like you ought to have a go with some of the realism overhaul type mods to let him have a play with the real solar system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speeding Mullet Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 15 minutes ago, DunaRocketeer said: The landings are... entertaining. The people want to be entertained - show us if you will! Buoyed from my recent success in landing an asteroid strapped to the top of my Buran replica (Very nearly with Patcan Kerman riding a command chair on the asteroid) I decided to take on a Class E that was on a collision course with Kerbin. Full mission report here, but as a little taster: SM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jett_Quasar Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) Today I watched a live stream of the latest Falcon9 launch from SpaceX. What struck me was how much it reminded me of playing KSP except there was no time acceleration... Doh! JR Edited January 18, 2016 by Jolly_Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerhamster Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Work continues on Minmus. Although somebody forgot to measure the combined command and battery units resulting in an unplanned separation event... this provided more work for the manipulator removing the wreckage and pulling the stuck command unit out. Power and command units are being positioned. With a new battery unit landed replacing the planned payload of ore tanks. A Also landed were containers with rover seats etc to enable a couple of light rovers to be built from the now redundant BCTU's (Base Component Traction Unit). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jablea3000 Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Sent something to another planet for the first time. Picked up a contract for a Duna fly by, couldn't be bothered to dig up a dV map so I just 'eyeballed' it. Plan was to have a 2 stage lifter to put a probe in a 250x250 parking orbit, then four the probe to do the transfer burn and fingers crossed have enough in the tank to capture at Duna. Over built the lifter, which ended up as an SSTO at a 150x150 parking orbit, 2nd stage took care of the transfer burn and mid course corrections and left me with a probe due to fly by Duna with 4500 ish dV left. Was able to capture at Duna, orbit Ike (completing the first part of my explore Ike contract) and leave it in a 65x65 Duna orbit, with 2500dV left in the tank. Not sure what to do with it now, leave it at Duna or see if I can get it somewhere else?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monophonic Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 15 minutes ago, Jablea3000 said: Sent something to another planet for the first time. Picked up a contract for a Duna fly by, couldn't be bothered to dig up a dV map so I just 'eyeballed' it. Plan was to have a 2 stage lifter to put a probe in a 250x250 parking orbit, then four the probe to do the transfer burn and fingers crossed have enough in the tank to capture at Duna. Over built the lifter, which ended up as an SSTO at a 150x150 parking orbit, 2nd stage took care of the transfer burn and mid course corrections and left me with a probe due to fly by Duna with 4500 ish dV left. Was able to capture at Duna, orbit Ike (completing the first part of my explore Ike contract) and leave it in a 65x65 Duna orbit, with 2500dV left in the tank. Not sure what to do with it now, leave it at Duna or see if I can get it somewhere else?? After a little playing with https://alexmoon.github.io/ksp/ you can get a flyby of any body in the system. Orbit is possible at least at Dres and possibly Eeloo. I suggest going to Dres, it is the next place outwards and always happy to have a visitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.