Live Stream Thread! (LIVE!)

[HoY]

I'm in the process of sending a manned rover to Tylo on as light a ship as I can manage. I had a very nice design (kinda) that would get me there but unfortunately I underestimated how much extra fuel I would burn fighting gravity with such a low thrust engine. So I got stranded there with 900m/s of fuel remaining.

Last night I started from scratch, re-using the concepts I developed over the last week so the build went much smoother. I made it into orbit on the first try, which is really a big deal when building light ships that have challenging missions to complete!

I also switched over to a 4 wheeled rover rather than my preferred 2 wheel SegWay style. It's going to cost me a bunch of mass and lots of extra fuel, but I'm hoping the useability will make up for that.

http://www.twitch.tv/hoyin1600p

I'll be updating this post as the stream comes up and goes down, and as the mission changes.

Keep your eyes open for it

Edited July 11, 2013 by HoY

[DMagic]

Tylo is similar in mass, and the same size, as Kerbin, not Laythe.

I think my lander was around 70 tons (once in Jool orbit), with 2 Kerbals and an unmanned rover carried on the bottom. It wasn't really the best design, but it got the job done. I'm always interested in seeing people's Tylo landers though, they don't get made too often.

[HoY]

I was basing my estimate on the TWR listed in Engineer under the 'bodies' tab, switching between Laythe and Tylo the TWR stays exactly the same. I could be 100% wrong however lol, engineer is acting glitchy for me lately

Now that I think about it, it costs 4400 dV to get off Kerbin, about 800 of that comes out as drag, that means about 3600 is spent actually against gravity and gaining horizontal speed.

Tylo needs closer to 2500-3000 does it not? I haven't successfully done this mission yet, I've tested the lander and rover but haven't tried to get back into orbit so I'm not positive about the requirement

Edited July 6, 2013 by HoY

[DMagic]

The mass might be the same. I think the acceleration due to gravity on Tylo's surface is around 7.5-8 m/s^2, so a bit less than Kerbin's 9.8.

For my little probe lander I think I managed about 3000-3100 for landing. But my manned lander took much more because I had very low TWR, it was below 1 for about the first half of my descent. I think it took around 4000 m/s, that's why I say it wasn't a very good design.

Edited July 6, 2013 by DMagic

[HoY]

In any case, it will be fun this will be my first actual flag planting too, since I've been on vacation I haven't been doing much more than building kethans rigs and not getting to use them lol

The lander will have 4000m/s worth of fuel once it drops the rover so even if it was the same gravity as Kerbin, with no atmosphere it would still make orbit.

[HoY]

Ok after several hours of redesigning the launch platform for a very nice ascent, I somehow managed to circularize at the right time to just burn and intercept Jool, AND I got a 150m/s free kick towards it by our closest satellite, Mun.

Unfortunately the kraken is also onboard, causing random explosions when reloading the mission, I suspect it might be the lazor plugin, so im going to try it after removing that. (No docking ports on this ship anyway)

Mission will be live again at the same time tonight, 8pm pacific (13 hours from now)

[HoY]

8 hour long live stream incoming in 2 hours. Yes, I'm pulling an all-nighter!!

8pm Pacific, link is in the first post

Same mission is underway. Technically it's still on the ground so there's a tiny bit more to develop on the launcher , as I had a fuel line problem during last nights launch, but as soon as that's done Jeb will be on his way!

With 8 hours I might actually send 2 missions simultaneously , or even include a second ship on the launcher capable of visiting Vall and back while Jeb does the hard work over on Tylo.

[RocketTurtle]

HoY, I'm really sorry but I can't watch your stream on my tablet for some reason, when is your next one? (I'm Explosiverocketturtle by the way.)

[HoY]

I'm streaming again right now, building a large-ish satellite launching platform to map everything in Jool's soi. Probably send one to eve as well

[whaaw]

im on you! start it for me :-)

[HoY]

I'm streaming again right now, building a large-ish satellite launching platform to map everything in Jool's soi. Probably send one to eve as well

[RocketTurtle]

DANG IT! I was asleep! ****!

[HoY]

lol I'm still here I just shut the stream off for a few mins. I can put it back up in a few mins

[RocketTurtle]

(tenchar)

[HoY]

Stream is up!

[HoY]

This morning I have a couple Kethane and MexhJeb tutorials to film and edit. If anyone's interested and says so I can stream the editing process tho it is slightly less interesting than watching rockets explode

Won't be until 8am PST

[HoY]

Live!

building Another hybrid launcher, to save the hassle for later.

I also may start working on an EVE launch platform shortly

[HoY]

Up and Live again, working on some random things, possibly a challenge