Show off your Kethane Mining Designs!!

[AntonMarinski]

Probably one of the best efforts I have seen. Taking notes, stealing ideas.

LOL Me too

[Johnno]

Here's my kethane mining rover during Mün landing.

[TMS]

Experimenting with airships on Duna. Can easily move to another location when necessary.

[Loabstas]

Hi jeep,

I managed to stack 2 tankers(both mobile rover tankers with wheels) ontop of each other ontop of the launch vehicle.. I used a crapload of steel framework and struts to keep them in place and to stop them wavering about.

I found the method of using rovers and going up and down way too much work and time, and prefer using gargantuan fuel ships that go down and suck a 420k keth deposit dry then go up and either act as a refueling depo from there, or as an engine stage to take other craft to other planets.

Here's a shot of my SSTO plane, and two of these Mid sized kethane miner-refueler-engine docked to it, ready for an interplanetary voyage..

may you please post a .craft file for that ssto, it looks beautiful

[Amphiprion]

Awesome airship miner, I likes.

I built an Eve, Zero Bypass, Kethane Turbine craft to take down and back up to rendezvous with the miner ship .

I shall post a .craft of that SSTO now for you.. Thank you for the compliment

Edited June 30, 2013 by Amphiprion

[Amphiprion]

SSTO's .craft file as requested:

http://share.cx.com/796Mnk

It needs alot of runway.

1 - changes mode of sabre turbines

2- toggle's nose aerospike on/off.

put brakes on, disable aerospikes with (2), switch engine mode to rocket(1) , power up, release brakes before damage occurs, once you hit 100m/s press (2) to activate toroidal's in the nose. once you have rotated to your desire, press 2 again to deactivate toroidals, and (1) to switch rockets back to air breathing mode.

Mod Requirement:

B-9 aerospace

spherical tanks

TT multiwheels

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Have fun.

Edited July 1, 2013 by Amphiprion

[Loabstas]

thank you

[Loabstas]

crap im getting a missing part error

[Amphiprion]

Apologies! I forgot to add in the Mod section 1 more mod.

TT Multiwheels.

[Amphiprion]

My upgraded Miner. It now holds more fuel, with less parts.

Here it is being launched off kerbin.. THe outer fuel tanks are drained.

Landed on BoP with a lil kerbin nexto it for scale.

[BJ Quest]

A newer, smaller Kethane miner/explorer ready for operational test in KSP v2.02.

Using the larger drill.

Operational test on Minmus went well. The big drill rate is great! I did add small Kethane tanks (4) before launch as well as 4 small fuel tanks on the bottom of the outside tanks. The Nuke engines make for a long burn time but the rate should get me to the other planets. It is refilled and ready to go.

Targeting a landing site is nice too :-) http://i.imgur.com/A4Q1rtn.png

BJ Quest

Edited July 6, 2013 by BJ Quest
Operation test on Minmus

[maackey]

Mun Gas Station -- just west of the Armstrong Memorial.

Just realized now that I didn't have the fuel lines hooked up to my little lander. Pretty much the only thing not turned on and active in the shot

[BJ Quest]

Mun Gas Station -- just west of the Armstrong Memorial.

Just realized now that I didn't have the fuel lines hooked up to my little lander. Pretty much the only thing not turned on and active in the shot

I like the fuel ship and the lander :-) Do you use the KAS for fuel lines or something else? -BJ Quest

[SleepingDragon]

My ~40t kethane mining rover on Mun. Mostly stock parts, Kethane, KAS.

Refueling my lander

[maackey]

I like the fuel ship and the lander :-) Do you use the KAS for fuel lines or something else? -BJ Quest

Thanks Yeah I've got two KAS winches on the bottom of the mining drills with attachable adapters so other, non KAS ships can still re-fuel.

[HoY]

SleepingDragon your using an old version of Kethane

[DocLangy]

HoY how can you tell?

[Amphiprion]

Sleeping Dragon, I like your Rover. It looks industrial and realistic

[HoY]

Because the map interface has been completely revamped, Kethane deposits are shown on the actual game map view instead of its own window

[SleepingDragon]

Indeed, I'll see about upgrading. It has balance problems when landing. I chose to have a rover because I'm not very good at landings

[DocLangy]

Looks like I'm using an old version of it too then. Time to upgrade. Thanks for pointing that out, I'm still new and haven't ventured out of Kerbins SOI

[Amphiprion]

Messing around with KAS and Hooligan Airships to create a carbon nanotube space "kethelator" fuel line that goes from the ground, where the kethane is extracted to orbit of DUNA.

Mark 1

:failed

Mark 2:

Landed, about to start extracting kethane...

The Tank at the top is for liquid fuel and oxidizer, that's that part I hope to be able to put into geo orbit.

Airships have their lift increased and away they go with the Orbital Fuel line....

@20km dunno if you can see them.

Edited July 8, 2013 by Amphiprion

[Amphiprion]

I have managed to get a stable save game and space centre option @17km so far (having issues with moving over ground)

A work in progress.

Edited July 8, 2013 by Amphiprion

[whaaw]

Hi,

I have 2 Pics for you first the mining site on the mun, and the little processing station.

Here are the Harvesters and in the middle the Kethane lifter (Lifter has a modded engine uses kethane as prop.)

And the Station 3 modules (Fuel,Kethane,Energy)

[Amphiprion]

Nice Whaaw, I like your module'd station with the three separate resources.. that's a boatload of batteries you have there...