You Will Not Go To Space Today - Post your fails here!

[Treldon]

I guess it's more of a case of 'You will not come back from Space Today'

But the mission was successfully completed

[MGCJerry]

http://i.imgur.com/GiaAT1K.png?1

Grrrrr... I can't tell you how many times I have done this. Time for a permanent base!

[Freshmeat]

I just forgot to turn physics warp off when returning a lab from space. At 500 m the parachutes tore the entire ship apart. 2500 science points and three kerbals died on impact. And no, I don't do quicksaves.

[Van Disaster]

Note AP/PE, acceleration, etc...

[zekes]

Oooook - 3....2....1.... *snap* wait don't -

[justidutch]

[lordlundar]

Note AP/PE, acceleration, etc...

The flight might not have been that great but you have a potential career as a high speed photographer.

[GloriousWater]

So I built up my Dres base stuff over the past two days and then..... it can't even space after 3 launch attempts.

[Bioman222]

You need more struts and boosters.

[Xacktar]

My research into seaplanes is going places...

Namely its going into small piles of rubble at the end of the runway.

[zekes]

Trying to build a Verne gun - it won't work in stock atmosphere, but I imagine with FAR the idea is feasible.

[Xacktar]

Trying to build a Verne gun - it won't work in stock atmosphere, but I imagine with FAR the idea is feasible.

Hey! That looks exactly like one of my first Krakenfire experiments!

x4 symmetry works best, a few physics-less parts help grab the acceleration from the engines, and with careful placement of launch clamps, can guide-rail the payload.

Also, its glitchy as all get out as the game engine doesn't like doing that many thrust-to calculations at once. The best launches will send the launch clamps up with you and lag the game for over a minute.

[chrise6102]

I wanted to launch from Eve but this happened...

[Tw1]

Hey! That looks exactly like one of my first Krakenfire experiments!

x4 symmetry works best, a few physics-less parts help grab the acceleration from the engines, and with careful placement of launch clamps, can guide-rail the payload.

I too have been thinking about more experiments with this sort of thing. Never got around to it.

The ideal gun would have several S3 KS-25, each spaced so that the payload, (Kerbal) passes into the zone of thrust effect at the same time a physics calculation is made, to make most effective use of each engine.

Mega cannons make for some great screenshots. But the phase-a-kerbal-through approach is more efficient

[CatastrophicFailure]

The crew survived. The VAB, not so much.

[Craeshen]

poor bill has got to walk too the last part of this mission after I botched a landing by leaving physics warp on.

[Craeshen]

poor bill has got to walk too the last part of this mission after I botched a landing by leaving physics warp on. https://www.dropbox.com/s/eavbzcn02jcrgyg/screenshot0.png?dl=0

Edited December 18, 2014 by Craeshen

[Slam_Jones]

Craeshen, try [ img]hyperlink [ /img] (without the spaces)

[Craeshen]

bah drop box is not cooperating. link to screeny work if you click it tho.

[astropapi1]

bah drop box is not cooperating. link to screeny work if you click it tho.

Imgur. It's free and very easy to use.

[Xacktar]

Sorry guys, Santa's deliveries might be a little late this year.

[moogoob]

No pic, but tried to put a satellite into LKO. Power ran out on the upper stage because the sun was directly behind and I forgot to pack batteries; when that happened I was doing the circularization burn and couldn't turn off the engine. Turns out my upper stage had plenty of delta-v, because now it's headed on an eccentric orbit that takes it between the orbits of Dres aphelion and Eve at perhelion.

[Xavven]

1. Used the new translation gizmo to move a decoupler up so that it covers the engine like a fairing. The whole ship blew up when I staged it. I wonder if it counted it as part clipped and didn't separate properly.

2. Pointed an unmanned probe on an interplanetary transfer EXACTLY south during a inclination change. Apparently, solar panels that point exactly at the sun don't receive any light (it says, "blocked by solar panel"). SO my batteries died at EXACTLY the time I needed to perform my orbital insertion. The probe woke up a couple weeks later after traveling around the sun a bit so the angle finally hit the panels. Took more than 1000 delta-v to get back to the planet.

[Theoderich]

Apparently, solar panels that point exactly at the sun don't receive any light (it says, "blocked by solar panel")

Makes sense.

[chargew]

Launch went fine for the first few seconds, but then things started exploding for no reason.