Science leads to wonderful things (PIC HEAVY)

[Andersenman]

Congratulations on that mission, all that effort made for a really nice tale!

Going probe-first - a simple but effective idea to decouple (uncontrollable) bits on parachutes without smashing into them. It never quite occurred to me, although in my defense I usually employ capsules which more or less demand being pointed away from the ground, hehe. Looking forward to trying pods with tweakable chutes set to open and deploy at different pressures and altitudes.

With those science pods, what do you do with sensors that cannot be used in a particular area the respective science pod was assigned to? For example, a pod may be assigned to Duna's high atmo, so its seismometer is useless. Do you try to fill those sensors up even though there's a different pod assigned to ground readings?

[Dave Kerbin]

With those science pods, what do you do with sensors that cannot be used in a particular area the respective science pod was assigned to? For example, a pod may be assigned to Duna's high atmo, so its seismometer is useless. Do you try to fill those sensors up even though there's a different pod assigned to ground readings?

No, I already knew I'd get a ton of science so I didn't need to spam every last drop. The reason the pods are all identical is for weight balance (also makes it easy to swap them around), I wasn't sure how stable the cargo ship would be in flight (wobble when changing heading) so I wanted to ensure that the weight over each engine was identical so that the ship wasn't making torque corrections during a burn that could get those stacks wobbling in resonance (the way the drop tank did when I made even the slightest adjustment while burning the crew ship home).

[Dave Kerbin]

This is the end of my career .22 log. Comments or questions are still welcome but no future missions will be flown on this save file.

My career .23 log is here

[InterCity]

Nice. With this tech i only managed to get to the orbit.

[Space Peanut]

cheers was fun read! also amuses me knowing how much i would struggle with some of the stuff you mention in passing (like any of the dockings here at all!!!) gotta long way to go in the game but is a fun journey

[Quintkat]

this is sooo cool